[Cob] cob greenhouse and Washington, DC

[dealy at deatech.com]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 raduazo at aol.com wrote:

[snip]
>   I picked up a copy of “The Tire House Book” by Ed Paschich and Paula
> Hendricks and note that the Earthship structures are made with concrete
> foundations. This seems crazy to me since cob and adobe structures are
> often built on rubble trench foundations. This would negate our reason
> for using tires.
[snip]

I don't believe this is how earthships are normally done, check Michaels
Reynold's books, he is the architect who originally created the earthship
/ tire house concept.  I would check, but my copy is about 8,000 miles
away and my arms won't reach that far  :-)

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