My goal in creating this DVD and guidebook was to show you the step-by-step, real-world process of building a single, straw bale home from start to finish. With the knowledge you will gain from Building With Awareness, you will have the confidence and know-how to either build your own home yourself or to work with designers, architects, and contractors. Starting with the design, the orientation of windows, and the right materials for both aesthetics and energy-efficiency, the DVD and guidebook cuts through the mystery of building a straw bale house. What is the best foundation to use to conserve concrete? How can thick-and-heavy interior thermal mass walls (made of adobe, stone, or brick) greatly increase the energy-efficiency of your straw bale home? How do you frame, install electrical wiring and plumbing for straw bale walls? And how can solar energy be put to use to not only heat the house, but to also supply electricity for all of you needs? In a world that is just beginning to think green, it is important to have an overall concept of what is essential in good home design. It is important to demand the best features and materials. The information in this DVD and guidebook will permit you to build the greenest straw bale home that you can.

Building a green home is more than just using straw bales for insulation. The overall design can have a huge impact on comfort, energy-efficency, and the overall cost of construction. The hardest part of building a straw bale hybrid home is finding out where to start. This DVD/guidebook combination will inform, entertain, and inspire you to build a home that is decades beyond the common house today.

The Building With Awareness guidebook and DVD video will paint a visual picture in your mind as to how all construction techniques flow together. With over 5 hours of audio and video content, a narrated slide show of construction details, 152 pages that include over 400 full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations—Building With Awareness is an essential tool to guide you towards building green with straw bale and other natural materials.

Like the DVD video, The Building With Awareness guidebook has been meticulously designed to convey information on straw bale construction and green building in an easy-to-understand format. You will be right on the construction site, learning from the experts as they notch and stack the straw bales and mix the mud. Learn about rubble trench foundations that conserve concrete, post-and-beam wall framing for straw bale walls, roof construction and environmentally sound insulation, thick interior thermal mass walls for stabilizing indoor temperatures and improving energy efficiency, rainwater cistern construction, electrical wiring for straw bale and adobe walls, photovoltaic systems for self-sufficient electrical generation, earth-plastering techniques for straw bale and adobe walls, and passive solar design. See how to combine energy efficiency and aesthetics, using environmentally friendly materials. Finally, there is a DVD/book combination for those of us who need to observe the process in order to fully understand it.

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PRICE
The DVD alone is $29.00
The DVD and Gudebook Combination is now only $39.00
For just $10.00 more, you also get the $20.00 guidebook ­—A $49.00 Value. You save $10.00