Newsletter

In this issue

When Organic is a Bad Choice

Waste is a human invention... it does not exist in nature.  In the natural world, everything is cyclical; everything happens in closed loops and dynamic systems of loops. Click to read more.

Check in to the Earthwall Rammed Earth Architecture journal. SIREWALL Licensee Sam Rodell presents compelling ideas on green building and rammed earth architecture.

From Minus 57 to Plus 42: A Wall for all Seasons

Grand Beach, Winnipeg adds a SIREWALL rammed earth wall to a popular outdoor attraction. Check out the SIREWALL online portfolio for inspiration on commercial and residential projects. Click here for the project details.

Grand Beach, Manitoba
Stabilized
Insulated
Rammed
Earth

Unconference for Deep Green Professionals

Join the SIREWALL Team at Living Future this Wednesday to Friday

Red-List Ready, the SIREWALL team is eager to participate in the Cascadia Region Green Building Council Living Future Unconference Trade Show.  We look forward to meeting like-minded professionals in deep green building and we are excited to share how SIREWALL is aligned with this year’s unconference theme. Decades ago, Buckminster Fuller pioneered the need for Comprehensive Anticipatory Design.  With climate change barreling down on our communities, we would be well advised to create buildings that withstand a more severe future: Creating for our children’s cities, we need to visualize a restorative, anticipatory civilization.

  • Follow us at the UnConference: @SIREWALL
  • Visit our booth at the UnConference Trade Show
  • Share ideas: 15 minutes of Brilliance can transform the built environment
  • Enter our business card draw: win your registration to our summer Intro Course

We’re visualizing a restorative civilization. Click here for inspiration.

Introduction to Insulated Rammed Earth

Summer Courses on Beautiful Salt Spring Island, BC

Our May course has sold out!  Join the wait list for May or book for the July or August dates today to avoid disappointment. Held over two days on beautiful Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, participants will get an introduction to rammed earth including:

  • Touring multiple SIREWALL homes: being inside is so different than looking at pictures.
  • Making rammed earth samples to take home: a hands-on experience that includes choosing the soil at the pit and analyzing soil blends.
  • Engaging in “deep green” conversations: a contextual construct to assess green alternatives.
  • Exploring aspects of design and engineering for the best use this new material.
  • Comparing applications around the rammed earth world: what works and what does not work.
  • Learning how to participate in moving this technology forward and how can you make a difference.

Register today. Join our inspirational team for a weekend that will transform the way you think about green building.