Course:Earthship Fieldtrip!

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Date: October 4th, 2009

Time: 10am-?pm Instructors: Alex

After learning all about straw bale and cob construction come join us on a fieldtrip to the one and only Earthship House in Québec! It's a wonderful house made out mostly of recycled and natural materials: A structure of old tires, earth plaster walls and earth floors, a green roof made with salvage materials, a humanure cob outhouse, indoors planters, an indoor rocket stove and bread oven,... so so great!

The owners of this private house will give us a free grand tour in exchange of a day of help with projects. The site is wonderful, with a nice river for swimming. The owners have done a lot of research in alternative sustainable living methods and are putting them in application. We recommend you bring: working clothes, very warm clothes (We will be working outside and that area gets cold), rain gear, boots or shoes (no sandals), pants, work gloves, water bottle, your lunch!

The tour will start at 10am and the rest of the day will be spend helping them out with projects around the house. The house is almost 2 hours north-east of Montréal. Please e-mail Alex if you have a ride or need one so we can organize the carpooling.

For the carpooling, directions or other information, and to confirm your attendance please contact me at alexandrecrombez@hotmail.com

For more information on the project click here

Hope you can come to this wonderful and inspiring day!