30th May 2017 - Ecologise

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Earthbag Diaries 4: Finishing touches, and lessons learned the old-fashioned way

30th May 2017

Requiring no special equipment and no special expertise, and very economical to boot, earthbagging is famous as an ‘idiot-proof’ technique, popular with first-and-only-time owner-builders the world over. Venetia Kotamraju, who moved from busy Bangalore to a farm on the Western Ghats, writes on her experiment with earthbagging. The final installment in a series of four….

Atulya Bingham at the mud home she built in Turkey

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A relation of love with the land

If I were into species research, I would declare the discovery of Atulya Bingham as that rare new species that the world desperately needs. If I were a birder she’d be that exotic bird whose sight delights one every time. She is rare because she writes about nature in a way no one else does….

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Earthbag Diaries 4: Finishing touches, and lessons learned the old-fashioned way

A relation of love with the land