Straw Bale Resources 2000-2001
Prepared by David A. Bainbridge
Associate Professor
United States International College of Business
Alliant International University
San Diego, CA 92131
Key Written Resources
Eisenberg, D. 1995. Straw Bale Construction and the Building Codes.
Development Center for Appropriate Technology,
Tucson, AZ.
http://www.azstarnet.com/~dcat/barriers.htm.
Gray, A.T., ed. 2000. Strawbale Homebuilding. Earth Garden
Publishing,
Trentham, Vic. Australia 156 p. (U.S. dist.
Chelsea Green)
Haggard, K. and G. McMillan. 1993. Straw bale passive solar construction.
Solar
Today 7(3):17-20.
Haggard, K. and S. Clark, eds. 1999. Straw Bale Construction Sourcebook.
California Straw Building Association/San Luis
Obispo Sustainability Group.
Santa Margarita, CA37 p.
King, B. 1996. Buildings of Earth and Straw: Structural Design for
Rammed
Earth and Straw Bale Houses.
Ecological Design Press 169 p. (U.S. dist.
Chelsea Green)
Lacinksi, P. and M. Bergeron. 2000. Serious Straw Bale. Chelsea
Green, White
River Junction, VT.
Lerner, K. and P.W. Goode. 2000. The Building Official's Guide to Straw
Bale
Construction v2.1. California Straw
Building Association, CA 83 p.
http://www.strawbuilding.org.
Magwood, C. and P. Mack. 2000. Straw Bale Building. How to plan, design
and build with straw. New
Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British
Columbia. 234 p.
Myhrman, M and S.O. MacDonald. 1997. Build it with Bales, version
2. Out On
Bale, Tucson, AZ. 143 p.
Steen, A. and B. 2001. The Beauty of Straw Bale. Chelsea Green,
White River
Junction, VT. 297 p
Steen, A. and B., D.A. Bainbridge, D. Eisenberg. 1994. The Straw Bale
House.
Chelsea Green, White River Junction, VT. 297 p.
(revision out 2001).
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The Journal
The Last Straw: The Grassroots Journal of Straw Bale and Natural
Construction.
HC 66, Box 119, Hillsboro, NM 88042
US - US$28, Canada - US$33, Int'l - US$36
thelaststraw@strawhomes.com.
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Web Sites & Links
Development Center for Appropriate
Technology
By D. Eisenberg. Updates regularly on the Internet, building codes and
research.
http://www.azstarnet.com/~dcat
The Last Straw
http://www.strawhomes.com
A
brief history of hay and straw as building materials
By Matts Myhrman and Judy Knox.
http://www.azstarnet.com/~dcat/SBhistory(tls).htm
Straw Bale Building
Technology
http://strawbale.archinet.com.au/faq.htm
Galston:
Photos of straw bale house construction
http://www.members.sia.net.au/tgibson/strawbalesite/
Green
buildings From Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development.
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/buildings/gbintro.shtml
Straw:
The next great building material? From
Environmental Building News.
http://www.buildinggreen.com/features/straw/straw.html
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Videos
Wanek, C. 1999. The Straw Bale Solution. 30 minute video.
http://www.NetworkEarth.org.
Many others available, look on the Internet and at Real Goods, Out on Bale
and in The Last Straw.
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Miscellaneous
Selected Articles on Straw Bale Building
Guidelines on Passive Solar Heating and Cooling
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