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Natural Building is the use of natural and renewable materials to create shelter for ourselves: something humans have been doing for millions of years. Natural building helps us to connect to the ecosystems we are a part of and use resources that are abundantly available. Each bioregion on earth has historically developed a building vernacular that was based upon available resources. The sky's the limit as you can build anything from natural materials.
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Natural homes are breathable, maintain a stable temperature and often designed in conjunction with passive-solar design principles, which means they use less carbon-intensive energy and more natural energy from the sun, wind and cooling effects at night. They say that passive homes need active people, and we need to start managing our own comfort over pushing a button.
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Participate in the new Natural Building Tent @ Off Grid Festival 2024
Chiltern, Vic | April 6-7, 2024
The Off-Grid Living Festival enables and empowers people to take their energy needs into their own hands, transition to sustainable lifestyles, build self-sufficiency skills and get off the grid. Starting in 2018, the 2024 festival is set to be their biggest event yet with over 250 exhibitors, a huge program of talks, workshops and demonstrations and over 10,000 participants over 2 days.
The Natural Building Tent is going to consist of a 10 x 18 marquee divided in two, with one section hosting panels and talks, and the other section open for stall holders (2m x 2m or shared folding table) and an open space for demonstrations.
We are very excited to be hosting this space and building the program to share the vital knowledge and information in our community, and share it with a growing audience interested in owner building, and or finding contractors and builders who will use natural and recycled materials for their next home.
Natural building is more than just a way of building and designing a home. It’s also a way of life for many; those who teach, run workshops, and work in related industries. There are many Australians passionate about developing the industry, and making it more accessible.
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Australians have a long and proud history of building with earth, from Indigenous Gunyahs to the icosahedrons of the 1970s. Find out how Australians have been experimenting with natural materials and what we can learn from the past to inform the present.
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As a casual member you can benefit from advertising your future events, learn from tailored online content and receive the regular newsletter so you can reach new networks. Have an established business within the Natural Building industry? Join as a business member and enjoy the added bonus of representing and advertising your business to an engaged audience.
By joining the natural building community you can find out what you need to know, who you can contact to help get your project moving, and where to find answers to those tricky questions!
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- Regular newsletter