BUILDING FROM EARTH-BASED & SALVAGED MATERIALS¶
-Earthbag Building
-Free emergency shelter construction plans
-Straw-Bale Emergency Shelter Construction Plans – from builders without borders
-How to Build an Earthbag Dome
-Sustainable building online article index: www.grisb.org/directory/index.htm
-Handbook on Dry Stone Walling Dry Stone Walling
-Dream Green Homes plans – sells plans for a variety of homes (earth, wood, straw, bamboo, stone); the floorplans shown on the site may be large and detailed enough to be useful to the DIY builder.
-Earthen Floor – poured adobe floor step by step instructions.
STRAWBALE BUILDING¶
-Building Science for Strawbale Buildings
LAND RIGHTS & ACCESS¶
-Home Sweet Home: A How-To Guide / Stories and Politics Behind Homebuying (Zine available from property.mushbanana@riseup.net)
-The Rhizome Collective – www.rhizomecollective.org
-Land Rights and Nonviolence Pt 2 – Packet detailing examples from around the world of how people have obtained or kept land using nonviolent action.
Conservation Easements
-Conservation Easements – Intro to conservation easements and great list of resources.
Collective Ownership and Land Trusts
-Land Rights and Nonviolence, Pt 1 – Packet from a workshop by Will Travers on Vinoba Bhave’s land-gift movement in India in the 1950s. An interesting historical example of communal land ownership.
- Short explanation of community land trusts from the School of Living, an educational institution dedicated to establishing decentralized, ecologically-sound, self-governed and humane communities.
-“Land for People, Not for Profit” by Alanna Hartzok. Article explaining why the commodified land tenure system is a problem, exploring historical antecedents to capitalist arrangements of land tenure and title, and arguing for a Community Land Trust leasehold system.
-The Federation of Intentional Communities classified section has land and houses for sale.
-Agro-Urban Land Trusts – What is an Agro-Urban Land Trust?
-E.F. Schumacher Society Community Land Trust Resources – Directory of existing land trusts, articles, several PDF guides.
SQUATTING¶
-The Squatter’s Handbook zine
-Brazilian Landless Worker’s Movement – http://www.mstbrazil.org
