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We offer many services.....

We're available for talks, workshops, on-site guidance and professional consulting.

For design work, we encourage you to contact us early for input about your site, your ideas and your initial plans.

We're available as consultants to clients and other building and design professionals.

We look forward to hearing how we can help you with your project!

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resources/books

Books

The Straw Bale House, by Steen, Steen and Bainbridge published by Chelsea Green Publishing

The Beautiy of Straw Bale Homes, by Steen and Steen, published by Chelsea Green Publishing

Build It With Bales, by Steve MacDonald and Matts Myrman

Buildings of Earth and Straw, by Bruce King Engineering Straw-bale and Rammed Earth

Design of Straw Bale Buildings, by Bruce King and others.

the books above are available from DCAT

The Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, et al. A superbly useful design manual for novices
or professionals.
http://www.patternlanguage.com/

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche A superbly useful manual for living and
dying, whatever your religion. http://www.rigpa.org/WIR/TBLD/index.html

Periodicals, etc.
The Last Straw
Up-to-date information and resources for straw-bale construction in the US and elsewhere. Indispensible!
http://www.strawhomes.com/

Environmental Media Services provides useful references for journalists wanting to cover straw-bale construction.

CASBA, The California Straw Building Association 805/546-4274

DCAT, PO Box 41144, Tucson, AZ 85717. strawnet@aol.com

Dawn South West.
1037 East Linden St.
Tucson, AZ 85719
http://www.greenbuilder.com/dawn/

Center for Resourceful Building Technology
Box 100
Missoula, Mont. 59806
(406)549-7678