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Regional Network
This is an evolving resource. Help create it. Add your connections. This network is currently from my perspective in South Eastern Michigan. More input is needed from the other regions. What projects or opportunities have you heard about? Email your ideas to ecoartdb@gmail.com. Would someone like to help coordinate the evolution of this network?
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Latest buildings!
Resourses: Natural building education, architechts, & more
US & CA, alphabetically
ILLINOIS
Chi Cob Co. A Chicago based Natural Building Company.
Chicago Natural Building Meetup Page .
Anna Wolfson. Wolfson Earthen Finishes. Chicago area.
www.wolfsonearth.com
tel. 312.520.0207
fax. 847.432.3747
Indiana
- Chris Reinhart, Bloomington, Indiana area, has built several bale-cob structures. 812 339 6717 hm
- St. Mary Baird, Strawbale Hermitage near Bloomington, Indiana. Deanne Bednar assisted Dave Sebolt from Ann Arbor in collecting reed, along with Str Mary. William Cahill finished up the roof. Wolfson Earthen artisans (above) shaped and finished the interior walls and installed the earthen floor.
MICHIGAN
South East Michigan
Deanne Bednar (ecoartdb@gmail.com)
Oxford, MI (248) 628-1887 Natural Building Activities & Presentations with a focus on education & training in strawbale, cob, round pole, thatching.
Kensington Kids Cottage.
A public natural building project, collaboratively built, at the Farm Center in the Kensington Metropark, Milford, Michigan.
Sunstructures Architecture
Wayne Appleyard
wayneapple@aol.com Tel: 734-994-5650
Ann Arbor, MI Specialiing since 1974 in passive solar, resource efficient, environmentally sound buildings including strawbale.
New Harvest Homes inc.
Lance Bowen, LEED AP 248 990 2943. Offers green & Natural Building Services including Straw bale Construction. Has LEED certification.
RusticBuilder.com . Mike Ross and his sustainability website.
Sustainable Systems
Christina Snyder, Architect. (casnyder at ic.org, spam protected)
Manchester, MI Manchester, MI 48158
Phone: (734) 428-9249
Architect of Manatou Arbor Ecolvillage, Kalamazoo, MI. Also teaches/presents on the Zero Energy Home, and more.
Chris Coon, Renewable Energy System, designer & installer. Phone: (734) 428-9249
Fredric McLaughlin, Architect. flmcl@consultant.com
East Lansing MI Tel: 517-372-0982
General architectural practice, including passive solar, SB, alternatives. Teaches classes on alternative structure at Lansing Community College.
David Sebolt. Architect. davsebo@yahoo.com
Tel: 734-747-8860
Green design, and helping to coordinate conversation on natural building and community in Ann Arbor area.
Heart and Soul Landscaping & Natural Building
Cécile Green & Daniel Little
Ann Arbor, MI heart-and-soul@comcast.net 1-734-761-9144
Focuses on building beautiful living spaces indoors and out. Renovations, Additions, Garden Structures, Greenhouses, and creative Play Structures using Natural, Non-Toxic Materials and Methods. Creating spaces of sanctuary.
River Raisin Institute. Promoting sustainable community development, collaborating with others to promote transformational learning & sustainable community for the 21st Century. Co-sponsor of the Kensington Metropark Kids Cottage, Milford, MI.
Jason Graves is doing natural building in this region. He has built two strawbale structures in New England, led a few workshops, and offers consulting in regards to passive solar gain design and installation. He is also a carpenter and general contractor.
www.michigannaturalbuilding.com . A website on a little strawbale project in the Flint, MI area being done by Sharon Howell.
Strawbale home under construction near Lansing, MI . Owner-builders Don & Connie Barlow 2009 - 2010.
Strawbale House under construction in 2008-9. Grass Lake, Michigan by Joe Trumpey, U of M Professor www.artsoneearth.org
WARM Training Center.
promotes the development of resource efficient, affordable, healthy homes and communities through education, training and technical assistance. Detroit, MI, USA
Detroit area Natural Building Meetup .
Detroit Green Map. An online map of sustainable resources, businesses, places in Detroit, MI.
Regional NATURAL BUILDING GROUPS:
There is a group in Ann Arbor that meets around "Community and Natural Building". Email Dave Sebolt <davsebo@yahoo.com>, if you want to get on the list or ask more questions. They meet occasionally in an informal way.
MICHIGAN
North & Western Michigan
Harmony Home Construction.
Thomas Hirsch, Larry Kinney
Traverse City, MI 49684
Construction, design, consultation for natural building & solar design and more.
Jeremy Andrews Kalamazoo / Battle Creek Michigan area
jandrews1977@gmail.com
Doing some hybrid construction with friends. 2008: Urbanite porch, with plans for a cob oven, wordwood wall and cob bench.
Willow Winds Wilderness Skills. Jim Miller. Lodge & Village Construction with traditional techniques. 962 F-30 Mikado, Michigan 48745.
OHIO
HarvestBuild Associates, Inc. is a small design/consultation company specializing in Passive Houses using innovative straw-bale and straw/clay construction techniques. Mark Hoberecht, principal and founder.
"Vernacular buildings record lifestyles of the past when people had to find a sustainable way of life or perish, just as we will have to now. The new importance of vernacular building is that it has vital ecological lessons for today."
David Pearson – Earth to Spirit
Fox Natural Builders . Chris Fox and associates offer natural building construction, strawbale walls systems and much more.
Mike Szuberla of Toledo Ohio is an epicenter for sustainability, coordinating urban ag and other projects for youth. Google: "mike szuberla" toledo for a look at what he is up to. Seed Swaps . Toledo Grows .
ONTARIO
Cob in the Park. Gorgie Donais. Fantastic Natural Builder Toronto, Ontario, Canada who did a collaborative cob structure in a public park. It is even used as a little cafe on the weekend.
Camels Back . Strawbale Construction in Canada, Chris Magwood. Good descriptions of strawbale construction.
Ontario Natural Building Center.
Straworks . Ontario natural building.
WISCONSIN
Blue Heron Natural Builders Guild . www.naturalbuildersguild.com . A collective of independent builders, carpenters, and plasterers from southern wisconsin, who are committed to building in a way that minimizes harmful effects to the environment and provides you with a beautiful, non-toxic home environment.
EVOLVING Midwest ECOVILLAGES & Sustainability Centers.
Manatou Arbor. Kalamazoo, MI area.
Echo ForestFarm . Mancelona, MI. I have not checked into this, but here is the info.
Touchstone Community Massachussets.
Tall Trees Community Farm . White Lake, MI. Promoting the environment, the arts and organic farming.
Sunflower Ecovillage. A self-reliant community, Bangor, MI, started by U Mich Prof. Maynard Kaufman.
LEADS to follow:
Chris Van: Habitat - Women build, Saturn recently signed on as sponsors in Michigan. Lt. John Cherry - Energy.
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