Chandler

• Pamela Hickey, Natural Building Network Member. 
  Email: pammmski [at] mail.com

Snowflake

• Seven Generations Natural Builders (SGNB) is dedicated to teaching people how to house themselves. We teach cob, straw bale, 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, Northeast and Hawaii.  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. *Natural Building Network 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. 

• Steve Kemble, has fifteen years experience designing and constructing natural buildings, and regularly teaches and consults in North America. His company, Sustainable Systems Support, has produced two landmark videos on straw bale construction. He is also an African drummer aficionado. 

• 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, Natural Building Network Member

• Betty Wanek, Natural Building Network 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_
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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.

• 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  

Berkeley

• Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), is an educational non-profit organization working for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of healthy communities. ADPSR believes that design practitioners have a significant role to play in the well-being of our communities: www.adpsr.org.

• Ami DeAvilla, Designer, Natural Building Network Member

• Hesperian Foundation, Hesperian collaborates with health workers, grassroots groups and community organizations around the world to develop books that are practical, accessible and appropriate across varied conditions and cultures. Our first book, "Where There Is No Doctor", is considered to be one of the most widely used community health books in the world. (Jeff Conant)

Bolinas

• Lloyd Kahn is editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications, an independent California publisher. Shelter specializes in books on building and architecture, as well as health and fitness. Lloyd's latest book is Home Work: Handbuilt Houses. For more info, see: www.shelterpub.com

• Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer and speaker. She has been working professionally in the land management and development field for 25 years and has extensive experience in all phases of ecologically sound landscape design and construction as well as the use of natural non-toxic building materials. She specializes in site planning & design of resource-rich landscapes, integrating rainwater collection, edible landscaping, pond and water systems, habitat development and watershed restoration for homes, co-housing communities, businesses and diverse-yield perennial farms. Penny currently serves on the board of the Solar Living Institute and The Institute of Noetic Sciences' Site Development Committee.

Boonville

• Emerald Earth, is an intentional community in Mendocino County, California. We are located on 189 beautiful acres of mixed forest and meadows, which is owned by our non-profit corporation Emerald Earth Sanctuary. On our somewhat remote rural site, we practice sustainable living skills such as organic gardening, permaculture, herbal medicine, natural building, and home power generation. We teach workshops on these topics and our members have written books on natural building and green spirituality. We also have occasional work parties and are sometimes open to short-term visitors and longer-term work traders. 

• Michael G. Smith, has a background in environmental engineering, ecology, and sustainable resource management. In 1993, along with Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley, he started the Cob Cottage Company, a research and teaching group focused on reviving and improving traditional forms of earthen construction. He is the author of The Cobber's Companion: How to Build Your Own Earthen Home (Cob Cottage Co., 1998) and co-author of The Art of Natural Building: Design, Construction, Resources (New Society, 2002) and The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage (Chelsea Green, 2002). He teaches practical workshops and provides consultation to owner-builders on a wide variety of natural building techniques, site selection, and design. 

Buellton

• Michele Pike is a member of Sunburst, an intentional community on California's Central Coast. The community runs a meditation retreat center on 4,000 acres where they present workshops and retreats with a variety of themes, highlighted by teaching the Sunburst meditation technique. Michele's particular interest is sustainable living. To that end, she has spear-headed the construction of a cob meditation structure with a living roof on the sanctuary as an example and inspiration for future resident/member dwellings. Michele is also the author of the book, How to Live An Exotic Life in an Ordinary World, published by Summerland Publishing. singinggarden [at] yahoo.com

• Heiko Wirtz, Natural Building Network Member. heikoderkonig [at] yahoo.com

Cazadero

• Pat Loomis, Cobber, Riparian Habitat Restoration

El Cerrito

• Kleiwerks International promotes social transformation and ecological regeneration by leading hands-on trainings in natural building and whole-systems solutions that result in community-based sustainability centers. We offer short workshops; six-week trainings for trainers; community events; volunteer opportunities ranging from a few days to season-long; international projects and programs; and urban education centers in Asheville, North Carolina and El Cerrito, California. www.kleiwerks.org

• The Natural Builders is a contracting company offering design, build, and consultation services in natural construction. Based in the East Bay (San Francisco Bay, CA). The Natural Builders work in residential construction,
  with owner-builders, schools, and communities to build healthy structures that emphasize the use of local materials including locally milled lumber, soils, straw and recycled materials. www.thenaturalbuilders.com 

Encinitas

• Simple Construct, Rebecca Tasker, Simple Construct is a small consulting company specializing in straw bale building. We serve owner-builders and contractors, assisting in implementing environmentally appropriate building materials and techniques. We also offer on-th-job-site training and general job-site management services. We are dedicated to simplicity, directness and honesty - in design, materials, techniques, and ambitions. We seek others with a similar vision: the not-so-big house, the simplest way to achieve energy efficiency, the healthiest materials, and the most direct way to get the project done. (760) 943-8986, rebecca[at]simpleconstruct.net, www.simpleconstruct.net
  

Felton

• Natural Villages is a 501(c)(3) "people profit" organization devoted to the development and sharing of practical life-skills consistent with sustainable lifestyles. A natural village consists of buildings wholly constructed of natural and recycled materials. The villagers tend gardens and livestock, with a goal of being over 50% -- and as close to 100% as possible -- self-sufficient in food production. The village should also look to the sun, wind and water to complement its grid-supplied energy consumption. www.naturalvillages.org

Lancaster

• Andrew Rasmussen, Natural Building Network Member. Contact at: onelove [at] igc.org

Los Olivos

• Betty Seaman, is an artist and natural builder living in Santa Barbara County.  She has taught extensively with Cob Cottage Company as well as on her family complex "Spirit Pine Sanctuary" where there are several cob homes and other structures. Betty is an experienced builder of structures large and small from homes to bread ovens.  Her passion is fresco, finish plasters, small intimate/sacred spaces (benches, meditation rooms, playhouses) and working with kids. Email: cobbetty [at] gmail.com

Middletown

• Robert Griffin, Natural Building Network Member. robert [at] globalfamily.net

• SunRay Kelley's organic designs take their form from the shapes of living trees.  The teacher in his first college drafting class told SunRay on seeing his designs,  "Learn to use a hammer, boy, because no one but you is going to be able to build that." Since then, Sunray has been building things that "nobody but SunRay could build."  The structures seem timeless and rooted, like they grew from the site. His forms had always been organic, based on wild round timber, but incorporating the sculptural qualities of earthen building--cob, light-clay straw and strawbale--into his work has been "a revelation and a completion". SunRay has personally contributed his energy to homes, temples and "follies" across the United States.  He has traveled the world studying buildings and live patterns both modern and ancient.  His unique style and personal energy have earned him legend status, even among master craftsmen.  www.sunraykelley.com

National City

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.

• 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 *Natural Building Network Sustaining Member.

• White Horse/Mya Mehera, Natural Building Network Member.

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

Oxnard

• Robert Schlick, Natural Building Network Member, otterndawater [at] adelphia.net

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. *Natural Building Network Inspiring 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.

• 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

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
  

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.  A project being birthed by Carolyn is a collaboration of women to create ”The Gaia Center” in Ojai Ca. where she lives. It is planned to be naturally built and permaculturally correct. 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, promoting it,  developing guilds and apprenticeship programs,  educating, organizing gatherings, organizing the “books”, and offering her managerial counsel as needed. *Natural Building Network Inspiring Member.

• Jason Hernandez, Natural Building Network 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. 

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) is dedicated to teaching people how to house themselves. We teach cob, straw bale, 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 three partners living spread out from the Southwest of the US, the Northwest, and Hawaii.  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, *Natural Building Network Sustainable 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 published to record the revival and development of strawbale worldwide. (Joyce Coppinger) 

New London

• Bryan Felice, Undustrial Timber Frames is a Limited Liability Company specializing in the design/build process of Timber Frame homes, barns and community spaces. We are branching out to include natural wall enclosure systems, natural plasters and finishes whenever possible. We believe good design principles come from observation of the natural world, well established traditional building styles and techniques and adherence to site-specific ecological and geological features. We take pride in making building a communal process and offer a variety of workshops and trade school programs... http://www.undustrial.org/ 

Maplewood

• Diane Slutzky, Natural Building Network student member. dslutzky[at]wellesley.edu

Albuquerque

• Rena Jackson, Natural Building Network Member. thornyrose [at] gmail.com

• Derek Roff has been interested and involved in natural, unnatural and alternative/exploratory building since his childhood.  Growing up in New Mexico allowed him to see and work on ancient and modern adobe structures, domes, Zomes, hippy freeforms, and the worst in high-profit mass market construction.  Solar home design led him into energy efficiency and conservation.  In the early nineties, he discovered strawbale building, and began learning, collaborating and promoting educational resources for sustainable, natural building.  He was one of the organizers of the seven annual (so far) "Build Here Now" natural building/permaculture gatherings at the Lama Foundation, near Taos, New Mexico.  He has contributed to The Last Straw Journal and various sustainability colloquia. www.builderswithoutborders.org. 

• Sandeep Sabu. I recently finished a Natural Building apprenticeship at the Lama Foundation in northern New Mexico. I have been interested in sustainability for a while and I am looking forward to finally working in Natural Building. Please contact me for assistance with your building projects at sabumafoo [at] hotmail.com or (505)856-1316.

Cerrillos

• Ampersand Sustainable Learning Center is a place to explore aspects of sustainable living through hands-on experiences.   Our off-grid site demonstrates sustainable systems including permaculture, land restoration, photovoltaics, organic gardening and recycling wastewater. We build with natural and salvaged materials, cook with solar ovens, and rely on rain catchment.  We will be offering a series of natural building workshops and internships in 2008 including earth floors, earth plasters, greenhouse construction, earthbags, passive solar design and solar water systems. www.ampersandproject.org (505)780-0535.

El Rito

• The Adobe Association of the Southwest champions earth construction of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Its purpose is to be a voice within the earth building community. AAS shares knowledge about earthen construction and participates with other earth construction organizations. Host of the annual Adobe USA conference. www.adobeasw.com 

• Kurt Gardella is a part-time instructor at Northern New Mexico College in El Rito, NM, USA where course offerings are available in Adobe Construction through internet/distance education. Contact Kurt by email to learn more at kurt [at] nnmc.edu.

Kingston

• The Black Range Lodge is an eco-friendly historic bed & breakfast Inn, in Kingston, New Mexico.  Originator of the Natural Building Colloquium - Southwest, and home of Natural Building Resources, the Lodge is a center for information about straw-bale and other earth-friendly building methods. You can tour (and even stay in) a straw-bale house with earth plaster and radiant floor heat.  www.BlackRangeLodge.com *Natural Building Network Regenerative Member.

• Builders Without Borders  is an international network of ecological builders advocating local, natural, and affordable construction materials.  BWB creates books, videos and workshops to educate and empower owner-builders.  The new BWB Straw Bale Construction Curriculum is a workshop manual for low-tech building methods, including the use of local ecological and salvaged materials. www.BuilderswithoutBorders