This website promotes alterntiave styles of traditional home building techniques that help owner-builders and homeowners looking at prospective houses reduce their carbon footprint by constructing ecologically friendly homes. Discussions include earthen home building traditions such as Oregon cob, English cob, light straw-clay, earth bags, Earthships, straw bale, rammed earth, etc. Also offers a 1 week intensive in Jacksonville Oregon on how to build a cob cottage and another intensive abroad.