Chandler

Pamela Hickey, pammmski [at] mail.com, *Supporting Member. 

Snowflake

Seven Generations Natural Builders (SGNB), Arizona, Hawaii and Vermont is dedicated to teaching people how to house themselves. Since 2002  we have been teaching cob, straw bale, natural plasters, and other natural building skills. We advocate building with local natural materials using methods that are ecologically sensitive, environmentally sound, and economically affordable. We have six partners living spread out from the Southwest of the US, the Northwest,  Hawaii and Vermont.  Inquiries in these locations is wonderful, but we also travel throughout the US and over seas for the right projects.  http://www.sgnb.com

Springerville

Karen Bishop. As What’s Up On Planet Earth? becomes more enmeshed and involved with cob building, there will be new information and perhaps classes as well, as things unfold. If you would like to be notified of any events involving cob building, you are welcome to join our e-mail list. There is no cost to join and your information will not be shared. *Regenerative Member.

Tucson

Development Center for Appropriate Technology, works to enhance the health of the planet and our communities by promoting a shift to sustainable construction and development through leadership, strategic relationships, and education. www.dcat.net. 

David Eisenberg co-founded the Development Center for Appropriate Technology in 1991. He has decades of construction experience ranging from construction of the steel and glass cover of Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona to building structures of concrete, structural steel,  masonry, wood, adobe, rammed earth, and straw bales. He co-wrote The Straw Bale House book, and helped write the first loadbearing straw bale construction building code for the City of Tucson and Pima County, Arizona. He has been working to create a sustainable context for building codes, offering trainings on alternative building approaches for code officials, and guiding alliances with partners in specific activities, such as the ASTM Earthen Materials Task Group and the Codes Committee of the U.S. Green Building Council. He served two terms on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Green Building Council and was served as vice-chair of the ASTM E6.71 Subcommittee on sustainability for buildings. David is a member of the NBN Board of Advisors. www.dcat.net. 

Brad Lancaster, is the author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands.  Since 1993 he has run a successful permaculture consulting, design, and education business focused on integrated and sustainable approaches to landscape design, planning, and living.  At his home in the Sonoran Desert. he harvests over 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year on a 1/8th acre urban lot and adjoining right-of-way. This harvested water is then turned into living air conditioners of food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thriving landscape incorporating wildlife habitat, beauty, edible and medicinal plants, and more. 

Shay Salomon, is a carpenter and construction manager who coaches owner-builders towards a mortgage-free life, and leads building and mindfulness workshops, usually for women. A cofounder, with Greg Johnson, Jay Shafer, and Nigel Valdez of the Small House Society (www.smallhousesociety.org), she wrote Little House on a Small Planet (Lyons Press/Globe Pequot, 2006) which chronicles the small house movement and offers advise to people who want to improve their life by living in far less space and creating Sacred Spaces. www.littlehouseonasmallplanet .com

Jan Stephens, *Supporting Member

Betty Wanek, *Supporting Member

Kaslo

Hajo Meijer is the sole proprietor of EcoCentric Design, an architectural design studio located in Southeastern B.C., which strives to integrate beauty, functionality, ecology and spirituality into the built environment, utilizing natural, healthy materials and sustainable technology. www.ecocentricdesign.ca. 

Ladysmith

Brian Osterlin. Working in the context of community and permaculture, Brian wants to put our dreams and goals into action, prevent waste and live fully.  He works well in teams and facilitation roles, loves the physical labour on the job, and has good sense for problem solving, both in planning and on site.  Welcomes work-trade opportunities and often requires little more than van parking for accommodations. http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dckc3mv8_
13ghb5mm&revision=_latest&pli=1

Midway

Michael Hollihn, Prana Timber Frames. I am a traditional timber framer with a focus on using sustainably harvested
timber and light-clay infill. I am familiar with western and Japanese style timber framing. I offer complete design from forest management, ecosystem mapping, prescription harvest, with a goal of managing the forest into old-growth succession. On site saw-milling and a passive-solar designed home that will stand for hundreds of years. http://builditgreen.ning.com /profile/michaelhollihn

Nanaimo

Lorne Kevin Bohn, Natural Building Network Member. lornekevinbohn [at] gmail.com, (250) 713-6727.

Salt Spring Island

Terra Firma Builders. With tens of thousands of square feet in rammed earth walls built over the last fifteen years, Terra Firma Builders President Meror Krayenhoff and his team have revolutionized a rammed earth system like no other. Leveraging SIREWALL's research and development, Terra Firma Builders create the only insulated rammed earth walls with compressive strength and energy efficiency beyond the strictest codes, reusable forms and a design approach that enhances indoor air quality. The SIREWALL and Terra Firma teams have more experience leading insulated rammed earth crews than all other related builders combined. Terra Firma Builders has won numerous awards for their homes and buildings, is a Certified SIREWALL Builder and is a member of the Canadian Homebuilders Association.  www.sirewall.com. 

Shawnigan Lake

Ashlee McCullock, Natural Building Network Youth Member, I took the natural Building Apprenticeship at O.U.R. Ecovillage. I joined NBN to learn as much as I can about anything and everything to help people reconnect with the planet and each other. ashleem76 [at] hotmail.com

Victoria

Cobworks, is committed to building beautiful, affordable structures with local and natural material in a spirit of cooperation and social responsibility. Builds, offers workshops and "The Natural Building Skillbuilder", a ten week training program. (Tracy Calvert, Elke Cole, and Patrick Hennebery).

Elke Cole, Natural House Design. Elke designs, builds and teaches "houses that love you back". Her background is in architecture with a degree received in Germany. After independently working on home designs in the Comox Valley since moving to Canada, she became involved with natural building in 1994. Since then she has worked both independently as well as with the Cob Cottage Company, the Down to Earth Building Bee and Cobworks. She is also coordinating  the "Natural Building Skillbuilder" at O.U.R. Ecovillage, Shawnigan Lake, B.C.

Kata Polano. Global, mainly Canada and Mexico. Natural Builder focusing in the ART of a home, sculptures that you live in. I am dedicated to bringing spirit and meaning into form and space through mindful design. I dream of sacred space in tune with nature, body, art, spirit, culture and community. aho.mitakuye.oyasin[at]gmail.com

O.U.R. Ecovillage is a 25 acre model/demonstration sustainable village, originating in 1999, is well known for its work in legitimizing sustainable design - particularly within the regulatory process.  The village is rezoned as a new precedent-setting model which includes aspects as 1)a protected conservation park, 2) an organic production farm, 3) a school (working on academic accreditation), and 4) a residential housing cluster (cob/strawbale hybrids). O.U.R. Ecovillage is the forum/setting for "TOPIA: The Sustainable Learning Community Institute". www.ourecovillage.org

Dawn Smith. Student Member. dawn [at] nbtsc.org

Alameda

New Cuyama

Warren Brush is a storyteller, poet, permaculture designer, writer and applied ecologist who has co-founded Quail Springs, Mentoring for Peace, Wilderness Youth Project and the True Nature Society. He teaches and mentors individuals and groups in "tending the family fire," mentoring for peace, permaculture design, and other elemental learning bundles. He shares his gifts in a unique programs that "nurture the Peacewalker" in local, national and International forums. www.quailsprings.org *Natural Building Network Inspiring Member.

Chris Eisenman, Natural Building, permaculture, sustainable systems. eisenmana (at) hotmail.com.

Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm, is a place where people and land can feed and honor one another in an authentic learning journey of stewardship, vitality, intactness, and balance. www.quailsprings.org. 
(Warren Brush, Cynthia Harvan) *Natural Building Network Inspiring Member.

Oakland

Leslie Jackson, is a dumpster-diving dog-loving Irish Fiddler and North African Andaluse Classical musician. She peddles slaked lime and natural building books to the local community and in the rainy season she writes and edits. She recently completed Rocket Mass Heaters with Ianto Evans (RocketStoves.com).  She's also a Natural Builder and Teacher! Oakland.

Occidental

Brock Dolman is is a Sowing Circle Community member and the Director of Occidental Art and Ecology Center's WATER Institute and Permaculture Program, and he co-directs OAEC's Wildlands Biodiversity Program. He co-instructs Basins of Relations and permaculture-related courses. Brock also co-manages the Center's biodiversity collection, orchards and 70 acres of wildlands. Living up to his specialized generalist nature, and rekindling the dwindling art of the peripatetic natural historian, his experience ranges from the study of wildlife biology, native California botany and watershed ecology, to the practice of habitat restoration, education about regenerative human settlement design, ethno-ecology, and ecological literacy activism towards societal transformation. http://www.oaec.org. 

Dave Henson is a Sowing Circle Community member and Director of Occidental Art and Ecology Center. He also directs OAEC's Ecological Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems Program and co-directs our Intentional Communities Program. With a background in environmental studies, sociology and law, Dave has worked for 27 years with many environmental organizations, including the Environmental Project on Central America, the Highlander Center, the National Toxics Campaign, and Greenpeace. He has lectured and led activist workshops around the US and in over 20 countries. Dave currently serves on the steering committees of the Wild Farm Alliance, the Genetic Engineering Action Network, Californians for GE-Free Agriculture, and the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy.

Ojai

Jock Doubleday is founder and director of the California 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc. The nonprofit advocates natural fertility, natural childbirth, natural infant feeding, natural immunity, organic agriculture, and natural remedies for disease. Jock is an independent researcher who writes about natural living practices. He also writes plays, screenplays, songs, poetry, and children's stories. His seven-year book project "Spontaneous Creation: 101 Reasons Not to Have Your Baby in a Hospital (vol. 1)" is his first full-length nonfiction work.  www.SpontaneousCreation .org/

Michelle Flores is an artist building in cob and using natural plasters. By trade she is a Fine Artist/Muralist/ Faux Finish Artist. Michelle has been certified as a Natural Plaster Installer by American Clay and is experienced in making and applying earthen plasters directly from the earth. www.shellynova.com.

Carolyn Hernandez, Carolyn is passionate about Natural Building becoming a choice option for builders of Home and Community. Her passion has taken her to explore the various models of natural building and its applications in various settings and situation. As a connector of ideas, people and community, she moves toward the highest potential of any situation creating an alchemical opportunity for effective change. Her desire to be a support for the  Natural Building Movement has led her to being an active Board Member for the Natural Building Network. *Inspiring Professional Member.

Dave Meisch, Top Gun Builders, Natural Building Network Member.

The Ojai Foundation, is a non-profit (501 (c) 3) organization offering programs and training in council, sustainable living, community building, healing and renewal. The mission of The Ojai Foundation is to strengthen individuals, families and communities by teaching ways to listen and speak from the heart, to honor life's passages and to appreciate our connection with nature -- supporting the emergence of a compassionate, sustainable and peaceful world. www.ojaifoundation.org 

The Ojai Post is a community blog, featuring Ojai residents from all walks of life writing about the unique Ojai experience. Ojai is a special place, not just for its geography, flora and fauna, small-town architecture and
rich native American history - its also because of the people - talented, creative souls who tend to walk to the beat of their own drummer and carve their own path through life. Check in for daily musings, rants, Ojai news and greater goings-on from the place some call Shangri-La. www.ojaipost.com.

Raymond Powers, Simple Brilliance. One of my greatest teachers in life has been to watch nature and the ways in which systems sustain themselves through synergy and symbiotics. Since we inherently are a part of nature, we can use this living model as a template for building our own inter-relational systems. As an advocate of socially responsible business and fair trade practices, I assist in strategies that will develop sustainable models and maintain a thriving, healthy, productive environment. I hold a strong vision for an economy that supports the needs of the earth, it's inhabitants and all future generations. www.simplebrilliance.com *Sustaining Member.

White Horse/Mya Mehera, Natural Building Network Member.

Nilufer Torun, Natural Building Network Member,
theorganizingspirit [at] yahoo.com

Oxnard

Robert Schlick, Supporting Member, otterndawater [at] adelphia.net

Petaluma

Miguel Lom Elliot. Earthen Scultpting. Miguel has been sculpting with cob for over 15 years since he discovered how fun it was with the Cob Cottage Company. Since then, he has worked in Argentina, Thailand, Guatemala, and built an all organic nightclub and yoga studio in Chicago. He is currently back in his hometown of Petaluma sculpting ovens, dome saunas, and benches. www.lomscobhomes.com Professional Member

Rancho Cucamonga

Tim Moffet, Natural Building Network Member, timmoffett [at] sbcglobal.net. Looking to join others in mutual support in building an underground earth-house in Palm Springs Desert area, Northern CA, or Southern OR. 

San Diego

Candy Vanderhoff, Consultant in green building materials and bioclimatic home design. Is Interested in spiritual process and methods of construction as it relates to ones values and beliefs based on vast research of indigenous architecture of Oceania.  Recently founded poetrybench.com, a women's earthen bench building group in San Diego.  (Click here to see the press release). Writes and teaches sustainable village design and native plant restoration programs to youth.  Owner/ builder of a two chamber cob oven and is currently designing homes for Katrina victims. Has a masters degree in architecture. Candy is a Member of the Natural Building Network Board of Directors. *Inspiring Professional Member.

San Louis Obispo

EarthFlow Design Works: A Permaculture Design Company, is a unique consortium of ecologists, educators and design professionals focusing on ecological land use planning and design. EarthFlow Design Works combines artistry and ecology to create functional works of art,
architecture and living environments... DESIGN:
EarthFlow provides consulting, design and project management services for residential, ranch or retreat projects. COMMUNITY: EarthFlow uses an ecosystems approach to community planning, business practices and green developments. EDUCATION: EarthFlow provides comprehensive training programs for homeowners, land managers, business owners and design professionals. www.earthflow.com. 

HopeDance, reporting on the outrageous, pioneering and inspiring activities of outstanding individuals and organizations who are creating a new world - regardless of their spiritual tradition or political agenda. We publish and engage in activities (forums, workshops, film festivals...) that are necessary in building ecologically sustainable, practical, down-to-earth solutions, holistic, healthy and awakened community. www.hopedance.org.

Santa Barbara

Hannah Apricot Eckberg is an activist and videographer among other passions. Using various forms of media to inspire people to be better stewards of the planet is one of her biggest missions. Combining her dedication to the environment and passion for media has helped direct her to my latest endeavor of starting a company called Spreading Solutions. The purpose is to help connect the dots for various renewable energy projects and progressive media endeavors.

David Fortson, Project Imagine.  Project Imagine hopes to raise awareness, model and implement sustainable forms of living including green building, permaculture practices, organic agriculture, environmental education, habitat restoration, green business models and practices, and to sponsor and host educational workshops and retreats. Our operations are based at Orella Ranch (www.orellaranch.com), a privately owned 300 acre ranch on the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County.  

Dwayne DeVries, Natural Building Network Member

Oasis Design is a family owned, home-based design consulting and publishing business. We've been developing original designs for living better, cheaper, & more ecologically since 1980. Find our books and services at http://www.oasisdesign.net. 

Art Ludwig is an ecological designer who consults internationally on the design of water, wastewater and solar energy systems, as well as efficient fixtures, and edible landscapes. He has designed four new types of greywater systems, and formulated the first plant and soil biocompatible cleaners. He lives with his family among forty varieties of fruit trees in the mountains behind Santa Barbara, California.

Michele Logan, Earth-In-Art. Planning edible gardens, creating woven or welded trellis works, soulful sculpture for garden and inside, aesthetic organic consulting, growing beautiful bountiful delicious gardens, learning natural building techniques.

Roy Prince, Architect, designs healthy and nurturing places and spaces for people to live and work. Roy employs inspired geometries, keen observation and intuition, and sensitivity to site, materials, client, and builder to achieve place and space that creates sanctuary for people. Roy designs additions, remodels and small new homes that are energy efficient, healthy and elegantly simple. Permaculture principles and natural materials inform the work. Roy works with natural builders and homeowners to create sanctuary with natural materials. www.royprince.com. Sustainable Professional Member

Susan Nakao has participated in many cob and plaster workshops and can be reached at raysuel [at] cox.net.

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, is an essential resource for those interested in living sustainably. SBPN is a solid network of experienced permaculturists, natural builders, and practitioners of sustainable living in California. Wes Roe and Margie Lakin Erickson of SBPN have been supporting Natural Building for many years through SBPN, organizing book tours and presentations of internationally recognized experts in the field, and promoting Natural Building through their extensive connections throughout the world. http://www.sbpermaculture.org

Soquel

Daniel M. Silvernail is the executive editor of the Journal of the California Straw Building Association, published author, and conference presenter. He is an architect and member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Architects, Planners, and Designers for Social Responsibility (APDSR) and the US Green Building Council (USGBC) among other organizations. (831) 462-9138, www.silvernailarch.com.

Sylmar

Dana Tkac, Natural Building Network Member

Yorkville

Tactile Interiors, Tracy Thieriot, Tactile Interiors is an artisan-based company that designs and applies environmentally friendly wall finishes and custom art installation. We create surface finishes with maximum visual, and minimum environmental impact. Natural and non-toxic, they can be applied to virtually any surface including drywall, plaster, brick, rammed earth, strawbale, cob and previous painted surfaces. (707) 895-2028, tactileinteriors[at]hughes.net, www.tactileinc.com
*Professional Member

Ventura

Carolyn Hernandez, Carolyn is passionate about Natural Building becoming a choice option for builders of Home and Community. Her passion has taken her to explore the various models of natural building and its applications in various settings and situation. As a connector of ideas, people and community, she moves toward the highest potential of any situation creating an alchemical opportunity for effective change. Her desire to be a support for the  Natural Building Movement has led her to being an active Board Member for the Natural Building Network. *Inspiring Professional Member.

Jason Hernandez, *Sustainable Professional Member. jasonhernandez10 [at] hotmail.com.

Craig Lanuza, Natural Building Network member. craiglanuza [at] yahoo.com.

Mark A. Rudolph General Contractor. Commercial renovations. renovatormark [at] yahoo.com. 

Woodland

William White, Natural Building Network Member. pahranagatman [at] yahoo.com

Colorado

Boulder

Colorado Straw Bale Association, is committed to expanding and sharing knowledge, experience and techniques for straw bale and sustainable building. COSBA promotes quality building practices and serves as a resource to building professionals and homeowners. http://www.coloradostrawbale.org/ 

University of Colorado, offers continuing education and professional studies in Natural Building including designing and building with natural materials, strawbale construction, natural plasters and finishes and more. Telephone 303-492-5148 or visit http://www.colorado.edu/
ContinuingEducation/sustainable/index.htm.

Carbondale

GreenWeaver, Inc., Laura Bartels, Consulting in design, construction, plasters, moisture & monitoring systems, school projects. Public presentations, seminars, workshops, curriculum development. Experience in design, project management, plaster, and moisture in residential, school and commercial projects. Laura is an instructor for Solar Energy International, Colorado Straw Bale Association board member, Natural Building Network Board of Advisors, presenter at national and regional conferences, author, and still loves to play in the mud. www.greenweaverinc.com, (970) 379-6779.

Solar Energy International (SEI) provides education and training to decision makers, technicians and consumers of renewable energies. SEI also provides the expertise to plan, engineer and implement sustainable development projects worldwide. Our professionals have project and training experience in the Americas, Africa, Micronesia and the Caribbean. During the past 12 years, SEI staff have delivered services to the Pan American Health Organizations, Non-Governmental development organizations (NGOs), foreign, national and state governments, universities and individuals seeking the benefits of renewable energy.  http://solarenergy.org/ 

Denver

Bill Lucas, Colorado Strawbale Homes, LLC. We build, consult, and educate about strawbale and other Natural Building techniques. Whether you are interested in greening an existing home, building a new home, or would like to speak with a LEED Accredited Professional, please give us a call or send an email with your questions.  Telephone 303-915-2693, email billucas [at] excite.com. www.coloradostrawbalehomes.com. 

Ignacio

Steam Boat Springs

• Colleen Lyon ,  I have a passion for youth empowerment, art, experiential learning, sustainability and natural building. Currently I am directing a non-profit organization, doing substance abuse prevention with at-risk youth but plan to go back to school in the next year or so to pursue a degree in sustainable development/ecological design.  Eventually I would love to teach and continue working with youth, being able to integrate the concepts and practices of sustainable design and natural building into unique school and community educational settings. Looking for experience (internships/apprenticeships/volunteer/educational opportunties) before deciding upon a graduate program. colchick[at]hotmail.com

Salida

• Solarwise, LLC. Located in Central Colorado, Solarwise - Natural Building and Design specializes in energy and resource efficient design and construction.  We create beautiful and healthy homes with exceptional attention to detail, quality and craftsmanship.  Our projects incorporate appropriate site orientation, local/natural/green materials, recycled products, non-toxic finishes and renewable energy systems providing an attractive and nourishing home that is both socially and environmentally responsible. http://solarwisellc.com/ 

Pensacola

• Beth Wilson, Natural Building Network Member

• Aina Hale Earthworks is the natural building group of the To Each Their Due Organization, a nonprofit sustainable development group based in Puna, Hawaii.  It is our mission to educate people of the threat to the ecology and humanity of this planet from unsustainable lifestyles.  We are attempting to decrease humanity’s ecological impact by creating socially and environmentally sustainable structures, while educating people of the various ways to simplify lifestyles to help mitigate further crisis around the world. Through our workshops, we facilitate natural and sustainable construction, renewable energy implementation, and permaculture design for multiple applications.  Telephone 808-965-0344. www.toeachtheirdue.org. Hilo.

• Seven Generations Natural Builders (SGNB), Arizona, Hawaii and Vermont is dedicated to teaching people how to house themselves. Since 2002  we have been teaching cob, straw bale, natural plasters, and other natural building skills. We advocate building with local natural materials using methods that are ecologically sensitive, environmentally sound, and economically affordable. We have six partners living spread out from the Southwest of the US, the Northwest,  Hawaii and Vermont.  Inquiries in these locations is wonderful, but we also travel throughout the US and over seas for the right projects.  http://www.sgnb.com. Oahu

Terre Haute

• Ed Pease, *Sustainable Supporting Member

West Lafeyette

• Sustainable Earth, is creating a Demonstration Organic Farm that contains several Natural Buildings. Sustainable Earth is a 501(c)3 not for profit membership organization dedicated to the development of sustainable farming and food systems. We embrace organic and natural (farmer defined) production systems. Host of the 2007 Midwest Small Farm Conference. Email: sustainableearth.steve [at] verizon.net. http://www.sustainableearth.net/.

Wichita

• Fonte Gaia, a resource for both urban ecovillages, and semi-reclusive rural retreat spaces, offering the expansion and transformation of consciousness through nurturing the soul of individuals and communities. 
  (Shala Blackburn)  

Bardstown

• Abby Peak. Natural Building Network Member. Email: abpeak [at] aol.com.

Elizabethtown

• Susan Campbell. Natural Building Network Member.

Scarborough

• Robert Alden, Natural Builder, Cob, Bale-Cob

Beckett

• The Timber Framers Guild is a non-profit educational membership association dedicated to the craft of timber framing. We serve as a center of timber frame information and design for the professional and the general public. http://www.tfguild.org/ 

Weston

• Rate It Green is an online community for people interested in finding and sharing the best in green building and design products and services. Our objective is to facilitate an open marketplace where everyone can shop for and buy green products confidently. Rate It Green features an online Green Products Forum and a Green Ratings system where members can share their thoughts and ask questions about a variety of green products, services, and related topics. www.rateitgreen.com. 

Ann Arbor

• Heart & Soul Ecological Landscaping and Natural Building, focuses on building beautiful living spaces indoors and out. Renovations, Additions, Garden Structures, Greenhouses, and creative Play Structures using Natural, Non-Toxic Materials and Methods. (Cécile Green & Daniel Little). www.heart-and-soul.biz

Durand

• NextGen Hybrid Homes is a non profit organization that builds sustainable housing for low income people. We are currently located in Shiawassee County, Michigan.  Our mission is to research and develop low-cost hybrid natural building techniques, and energy systems, for use in the construction of safe neighborhoods for, but not limited to: the disabled, homeless, elderly, veterans, and low income families/individuals. Further, the corporation will develop “hands-on” workshops to disseminate said techniques. http://nextgenhybridhomes.org 

Flint

• Holly Lubowicki, natural building enthusiast with some experience in straw bale, cob, thatching and natural building design. Interested in creating opportunities for natural building renewable energy and community.  *Natural Building Network Regenerative Member.

Oxford

• Deanne Bednar, Illustrator of "The Hand-Sculpted House" and "The Natural Plaster Book", teaches Natural Building Workshops in Cob, Straw-Bale, Earthen and Lime Plasters, Thatching, Sacred Spaces and Design at her Strawbale Studio. She also offers workshops in Rocket Stove building. http://www.freewebs.com/strawbalestudio/ 

Plymouth

• FORA a Sustainable Communities Incubator, LLC. "Come and learn Natural Building Techniques in a beautiful rural environment!". http://www.myspace.com/eccomean.

Helena

• David and Pamela Lee. We are interested in forming an urban ecovillage incorporating natural building design and permaculture principles. David is a biologist specializing in stream, wetland and wildlife habitat restoration. Pamela has a Bachelors in Food and Nutrition, specializing local, organic cuisine. Contact us at  david [at] davidnblee.com.

Lincoln

• The Last Straw Journal, is the only journal pub