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Building With Awareness: The Construction of a Hybrid Home is an award-winning DVD video on building a straw bale solar home. Take a front-row seat to the entire process of building a green home with this winner of three Telly Awards. Designer and builder Ted Owens takes you step-by-step through the construction of his Corrales, New Mexico home built from straw bale, adobe and other natural, locally aquired resources. Without compromising on beauty, quality or comfort, this solar-powered home is...

ISBN-10: 0977334317 ISBN-13: 9780977334315. Edition: PAP/DVD.

Featuring close to 3 hours worth of tips and advice for those interested in building a "green" home, this program includes step-by-step instructions regarding the building of rainwater cisterns and earth plasters, as well as a comprehensive look at homes built from straw, adobe, and other local, environmentally friendly resources. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Possibly the most detailed and comprehensive video ever made on the design and construction of a sustainable straw bale home. This beautifully photographed how-to DVD will show you how to build straw bale walls for insulation, adobe walls for interior thermal mass (which greatly increases the efficiency of a straw bale home), earth plasters for a beautiful finish, 100% electrical generation by sunlight, and passive solar heating and cooling. This video could save you thousands of dollars in design...

* Take a front-row seat on the work site, learning from the experts as they notch and stack the straw bales and mix the mud. * Learn about foundations, post-and-beam wall framing, roof construction and insulation, interior thermal mass walls for improved efficiency, rain-water cisterns, electrical wiring, and photovoltaic systems. * Learn earth-plastering techniques that create beautiful wall finishes. * Understand how window placement and other structural elements can help to heat and cool your...

Genre: Science & Technology. Category Inventions & Innovations, Environmental Science. Studio: Living Arts. Run Time: 02 hr 42 min. Language: English. Release Date: March 3, 2009.

What if you could build a house that saves Earth’s natural resources while saving you money? What if both energy efficiency and superb aesthetics could come from the same materials and design parameters? This informative program, winner of three 2005 Telly awards, takes viewers completely through the construction process of a hybrid home – a structure that is beautiful, highly functional, and Earth friendly; that generates all its own electricity; and that stays warm in winter and cool in summer...

The book and DVD are both divided into thirteen chapters. Every chapter covers a different phase of constructing the home, and the book shows the video location that corresponds to the time-reading on your DVD player. This permits finding specific video information as you read. The DVD is the recipient of 3 Telly Awards for production quality, including awards for Outstanding Multimedia DVD, Editing, and Use Of Graphics. The book is printed in full color on a high-grade paper with 100% recycled content...