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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?

 

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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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Hearth Build

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Hearth Build is a modern, progressive construction company that aims to connect people to our environment – our living spaces. By combining cutting edge technologies and timeless, traditional building practices, we believe that a home can become more than just a floor, walls and a roof but another member of the family, full of character, memories and life. We specialise Read more…
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Mudmob Natural Building specialises in natural plasters and builds Eco friendly homes for clients. Kate from Mudmob strives to use the best traditional Natural Building techniques. Specialising in using unprocessed local, natural, and recycled materials to create beautiful and healthy structures that are environmentally friendly. Mudmob is experienced in all forms of Natural Building. Strawbale – Light earth – Hemp Read more…
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Mudtec is a manufacturer and supplier of compressed earth blocks. Using local soils and sand to produce strong beautiful bricks, stabilised with 5-7% cement. The addition of oxides and/or aggregates can produce a variety of colour and texture options. A wonderful way to add thermal mass to a building as either a load bearing component or lining. With over 15 Read more…
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Wastewater management solutions and consultancy. A unique service offering low-impact and low-cost sustainable wastewater management solutions to residential and commercial sectors. Specialising in natural solutions such as composting toilets, greywater systems, septic systems, reedbeds, vermiculture systems etc. Consultancy, design and installation services are all available. Also, providing educational workshops and presentations. Get in touch if you want to discuss how Read more…

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Earth Building Academy

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Comprehensive 3-month online natural building program backed by 1 year mentorship. Learn on your own projects with our expert guidance. This program has been created with our students in mind. Our main desire is to make this as relevant, practical and supportive of your own natural building journey as possible. Our next Intake will be in September 2024. Join the Read more…
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Welcome to a very special Tadelakt Double Date! This workshop will be run twice, on two seperate dates, to allow us to run a very small class size SEPTEMBER 21ST & OCTOBER 26TH Tadelakt is a natural waterproofing solution for all types of installations and applications WE WILL BE EXPERIMENTING WITH 2 DIFFERENT RECIPES, AND APPLYING ON ONE TILE AND Read more…
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Come join us for some hempcreting in Warrnambool, South West Victoria! We will be building from 2nd October through to the around the 21st. All morning and afternoon tea and lunches provided. Please use the registration of interest link to get in touch to discuss any other requirements. Would love to have anyone join us for some great days of Read more…
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Over the 3 days we will immerse ourselves in the wonderful world of lime plasters. The workshop has a strong hands-on focus with just enough theory to give you a solid foundation. We will be working on both sample boards and a real building. – Theory of Lime Plaster Technology – Materials and Mixes – Tools and Equipment – Plaster Read more…
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When we think about passive cooling what do we mean? In our previous blog we highlighted the principles of passive design which include orientation, insulation, shading, […]
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Natural Building, finance, insurance and regulations – the boring but important stuff

Building regulations, insurance and finance for natural builds. How passive solar design and the use of natural materials fits within the National Construction Code is a […]
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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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To start your natural building journey, you need to have the right tools.

Australia has a long and proud history of (modern) earth building, but this tradition has often been sidelined or forgotten in the rush towards easy and cheap housing solutions.

The knowledge runs deep in many communities across the country, but there are few outlets for learning and it’s hard to know where to look to find trusted, reliable information and instruction. Here we provide an opportunity for anyone, young or old, to learn through doing, or through reading and asking questions.

 

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