Building With Awareness

Designer Ted Owens takes you through a step-by-step process of building his small straw bale house from start to finish. Topics covered include: sustainable design of solar homes, straw bale and adobe wall construction, earth and mud plasters, sustainable building techniques, generating electricity from the sun, passive solar heating and cooling, and combining beautiful aesthetics with extreme energy efficiency. 

This series is the video portion of the "Building With Awareness: The Construction of a Hybrid Home" guidebook. We are now offering the video free of charge.