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Digital copy available – On Cob Balls, Adobe and Daubed Straw Plaits
To update the earlier post – a digital copy of the glossary ‘On Cob Balls, Adobe and Daubed Straw Plaits’ is now available to download from the Sachsen-Anhalt State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology https://www.lda-lsa.de/en/state_office_for_heritage_management_and_archaeology/overall_specialised_services/bibliothek/publications/glossary_on_earth_building_techniques/ The glossary relies heavily on … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservation, Earth Building, Intangible heritage, tangible heritage
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Re-post – Woody Guthrie and House of Earth
Re-posting one of my most popular posts: ‘House of Earth’ is Woody Guthrie’s novel finished in 1947 recently discovered and published earlier this year edited and introduced by Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp. This is a tale of depression-era Dust … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Conservation, Earth Building, Making Places, Self-Build
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On Cob Balls, Adobe and Daubed Straw Plaits
I recently had the privilege of contributing to a glossary on traditional earth building techniques in four languages – English, Spanish, French and German, working with fellow earth building experts and researchers Franziska Knoll, Maria Pastor Quiles and Claire-Anne de … Continue reading
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Conservation and the climate emergency
Through 2019 almost half of Local Authorities in the UK have declared a Climate Emergency with challenging pledges to reach Zero-Carbon by 2030 or by 2050. According to the UK Green Building Council the built environment currently accounts for 40 … Continue reading
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The colour – earth buildings and literature
One of the joys of picking up novels is finding buildings, and stories of their construction and maintenance. One of my childhood favourites is the opening of Wind in the Willows where Mole is Spring-cleaning and whitewashing his home on … Continue reading
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Louise Cooke 