[Greenbuilding] earthen floor

Doug Kalmer dougkalmer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 16:16:51 CST 2011


I know of a local "eco-architect" who built a SB house for a guy, and made a earthen floor from local clay. It sprouted grass. Doug

Message: 1
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:31:50 -0500
From: Frank Cetera <alchemicalfranklen at gmail.com>
To: greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] That Natural Feeling
Message-ID:
       <AANLkTin4XBTWucN35_HXvWdK2HiuEsWkJCnQgyOisRyU at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Love your website and your work philosophy Gennaro.  The earthen floor photo
essay was interesting, as I am planning on putting in an earthen floor in
the kitchen of a home I am renovating this coming summer.

I wanted to ask for further examples of how you plan on counteracting the
need for new building materials when you do your work as you say one of your
goals is zero new materials.

How for instance would you insulate an attic?  Or fulfill modern codes
relating to foundation work or electrical work?  Or is the zero new
materials idea more of an ideal than a reality?

~ Frank Cetera
www.alchemicalnursery.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.bioenergylists.org/pipermail/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org/attachments/20110111/a8f2caa9/attachment.html>


More information about the Greenbuilding mailing list