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Pages: 152, Edition: Pap/DVD, Paperback, Synchronos Design

"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...

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...

Release Date: 2009-03-03, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Building With Awareness: The Construction of a Hybrid Home

In this beautifully done how-to DVD, director Ted Owens takes you into his straw bale home and shows you how to build a sustainable house from the ground up, offering detailed information on the design and construction of post-and-beam structures; passive heating, cooling and lighting; rubble trench foundations; rainwater cisterns; and PV systems. An excellent introduction as well as in-depth instructional video for anyone with even a passing interest in natural construction.

Pages: 160, Edition: Pap/Cdr, Paperback, Sage Publications Ltd

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...