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OFF GRID LIVING FESTIVAL 2025
Sponsorship Opportunity
Sustainable and Natural Building Tent @ Off Grid Living Festival, Chiltern Vic April 12-13th 2025.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN THE MOVEMENT FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE DWELLINGS, INCREASE YOUR PARTNERSHIP WITH US AND A RENOWNED SUSTAINABILITY THE FESTIVAL AND BENEFIT FROM OUR MARKETING POWER?
In 2024 we launched the first edition of a natural and sustainable building design tent at the Off Grid Living Festival. It went off spectacularly well and was a highlight for many festival attendees.
We're now seeking out new festival sponsors for next year to help us do it all again, bigger and better.
If you’re a business or organisation that works in the industry we want to hear from you!
Help us grow the industry and educate more Australians on building alternatives.
Sustainable Building Tour
Southern India | April 27 - May 11 2025
Join us on an extraordinary journey through southern India, where tradition meets innovation in sustainable building practices. This tour offers an unparalleled opportunity to witness and engage with eco-friendly construction techniques and cutting-edge design.
Are you ready for your next natural building experience?
Have you been looking for some inspiration for sustainable design?
Would you like to travel with a great group of like-minded people and experience a part of India rarely seen?
Join the next entry for the Build Outside The Box Mastermind (online) Course to learn what you need to know to make sure your natural build runs smoothly and with the experience of dozens of practitioners!
Course Opens for only 8 days!
November 25 - December 2, 2024
Grab your discount of $100 off with this Coupon Code: NBA100
(This offer is only valid until Monday, December 2nd).
The Build Outside the Box Mastermind is a resource for those of you considering building a home with alternative and natural materials and want to discover which methods will best suit your climate, budget, skill level and aesthetic.
12 Eco-Alternative Building Methods In One Place! Find out More about the course here
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What's included with the course:
✔ 25+ hours of video classes
✔ A downloadable follow-along workbook
✔ Where are you on the spectrum? A self-assessment to help you identify your needs, values and challenges
✔ Actionable steps to move your project forward
✔ Course vocabulary
✔ Lifetime access to course and additional Build Outside the Box future add-ons!
✔ Bonus content & materials
✔ Live classes & Q&A sessions
✔ Access to the private Build Outside the Box community (hosted through course page - you do not need Facebook) & more!
This course is designed to help you feel confident knowing what building type is best for you!
Join our community and learn from the experts!
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.
EXPERIENCE
FEATURED PROFILES
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.
COMMUNITY
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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Join the community and receive member benefits for 1 year. Whether you’re just starting, already on your way or working across the industry there is a tiered package for you.
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!
Free Member
- Free Event Listings - Unlimited
(only valid for events that are free to attend). - Regular newsletter
Casual Member
- Event listings - Unlimited
- 1 Featured event listings on homepage per year
- Social media & email marketing support for featured events
- Exclusive members only offers for industry events and courses
- Regular newsletter
Business Member
- Directory profiles - Unlimited
- Event listings - Unlimited
- 3 Featured event or profile listings on homepage per year
- Social media & email marketing support for featured listings
- Exclusive members only offers for industry events and courses
- Regular newsletter