THE EARTH HOME, THE TREE BRANCH HOME. The HOME IN A HILL.

There are builders out there with NO MONEY, just talent, chutzpah and an eye for beauty. WHY BUY LUMBER? it's distressingly STRAIGHT. Find curvy, INTERESTING wood lying around in the forest as Welshman SIMON DALE did.
http://www.simondale.net/house/

LIGHT UP A DOOBIE AND SCAN SOME RARE, HIP, UNDERGROUND LIVING

WHY BUY a lot of costly capitalist cement, steel and lumber to build a house. You are an alternative citizen, not mainstream. Build INTO the best structural material that exists, the EARTH, our native CLAY. Use our native STONES. Dry stack them, Clay in the chinks. Now, if you feel the need to spend money, some cement paste.

http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/skarabrae/ 4000 BC Orkney islands. The art of flat stones stacked. Mud on top. NOBODY went to HOME DEPOT.

And next, WHY BUY LUMBER? The Stuff is distressingly STRAIGHT. Boring and COSTLY. Find
curvy, INTERESTING wood lying around in the forest as Welshman SIMON DALE did. http://www.simondale.net/house/

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http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/E/AE_earth-sheltered_house.
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http://fadedglorypatriotjournal.blogspot.com/2009/10/fgp-survival-homestead-manual-part-7.html

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http://webecoist.com/2009/02/02/earthen-architecture-natural-dirt-mud-brick-buildings/

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http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/12/01/hand-build-an-earth-sheltered-house-for-5000/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertlio/3104983237/

GOOGLE 'earth-home' with a hyphen.

http://pequenasventanas.blogspot.com/2011/03/edificios-del-tierra.html
HESPERIA CALIFORNIA, NOT AFRICA!
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http://earthhome.wordpress.com/

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