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Architects/Designers      Earth Building      Building Products      Straw bale      Timber      Fitting & Finishing      Renewable Energy      Other      Direct Sales     

ARCHITECTS/DESIGNERS
Peter Lees - efficient eco-friendly design for straw bale, earth, masonry and timber
John Barton - environmentally sensitive solar design
Green Point Design - solar architecture
Jack Metcalf - specialising in practical, frugal, individual, environmental design
Graeme North (NZ) - earth, solar and environmental building design
Adobe South (NZ) - earth and straw bale building
Bohdan Dorniak & Co. - environmentally sustainable, energy efficient design
John Koch Pole Frame - specialising in pole frame and earth wall construction
Bill Adams - specialising in pole frame and earth masonry
Dynamic Design Group - a naturally intergrated approach to design
Design For Seasons - specialising in passive solar and environmentally sustainable design
Earthbound Design+Construct - Eco-sustainable design and building
FrogHollow Design - low cost, easy to build, environmentally concious designs
JM Design & Drafting - specialising in residential building plans and specifications

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EARTH BUILDING
Make It Mudbricks - superb quality puddled mudbricks
EBAA - Earth Building Association of Australia
EBANZ - Earth Builing Association of New Zealand
Starting Point - help with earth building
Earth Structures Peninsula - stabilised earthbuildings
Eco Sustainable Homes formerly Rammed Earth Enterprises - specialist builders and designers
The Mud Brick Circus - Strong, durable, handmade mud bricks
Earth Tec Builders - Rammed earth construction
The Cob Mob - Cob specialists
Earthform & Golden Cypress - Earth building services & sustainable timber
AMCER Earth Building Technology - Earth bricks, technical support and consultancy, workshops
EnviroBrix - Perfected Earth Bricks

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BUILDING PRODUCTS
NASH - National Association of Steel-Framed Housing Inc.
Formblock - modular system for casting loadbearing walls in-situ
ecobricks - Recycled bricks and pavers
Kirumba - Roof and Tiling
PaverMaker - Make and install your own pavers
Technosteel Australia - steel frame homes

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STRAW BALE
Huff 'n' Puff Constructions - construction and workshops
AUSBALE - the Australasian Straw Bale Building Association
Professional Strawbale - strawbale building and consulting specialists
Straw bale building supplies - spray rendering, baling equipment, help with baling
Country Sprayrender - quality straw bale homes that don;t cost the earth

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TIMBER
Bowerbird - salvaged non-forestry timbers
Nullarbor Timber - recycled hardwood timbers
Urban Salvage - recycled timber
Lyrebird Ridge Frames - heavy section mortice and tenon timber framing
Just Old Flooring - quality recycled flooring
Timber Frames of Australia - wooden mortice and tenon frames
Lucas Mill - portable sawmills
LBANZ - Log Builders' Association of New Zealand
Mahogany Rush - precision sawmilling, mobile sawmill

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FITTING & FINISHING
Select Salvage - recycled doors and windows
Castworks - wood stoves
Clivus Multrum - waterless toilets
A&A Wormfarm Waste System - the environmentally friendly way to process household waste
DP Refrigeration - L.P.Gas refrigerators and freezers
Solomit - strawboard and brush panels
BIO Products - Natural and non toxic paint products
Livos - Ecological paints and oils
Nature Loo - environmentally positive solutions for domestic waste
Composting Toilet Systems WA - waterless composting toilets
Overwrought Metalwork and Design - custom made doors, gates and other items
Air-Cell - innovative insulation
Tech-Dry - earth building protection products
Grimes & Sons - natural paints, coatings and renders

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RENEWABLE ENERGY
ATA - Alternative Technology Association
Rainbow Power Company - Renewable Energy Systems
Energy and Space - Solar solutions - why wouldn't you?

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OTHER
Heritage Stonemason Carver - traditional methods of stone construction
Build Your Own House - ultimate website for owner builders
Southern Cross Permaculture Institute - permaculture design courses
The Last Straw - international journal of straw bale and natural building
EcoVoice - Australia's Environmental Newspaper
The Green Directory - online guide to green products & services
Green Pages - national directory of environmentally sustainable products and services
Building Green - publisher of building research information (USA)
Trades Essentials - owner builder insurance

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Direct Sales
The Owner Builder is available from the following outlets, as well as newsagents and Bunnings stores.

Natural Technology Systems, Prospect SA
Organic Feast, East Maitland NSW
Going Solar, Carlton Vic
Wellington Way IGA, Wellington Street, Strathfieldsay Vic
The Environment Shop, Thornbury Vic
The Organic Market & Cafe, Stirling SA
Rainbow Power Company, Nimbin NSW
Home Ideas Centre, Brisbane Qld
ecolateral, Adelaide SA
Candelo Books, Bega NSW
Paterson Post Office, Paterson NSW
Medowie Harware, Medowie NSW

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