General Resources

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Disclaimer: We are providing the following resources in one place for your convenience.  There are many more resources; these are particularly good, reliable, and important resources.  If you know of other resources that should be included please send the information to us at theearthbuildersguild@gmail.com

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Secretary of Interior
Standards for Historic Preservation

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Dachverband Lehm e.V. Consumer Information

Building with Earth (PDF)

 

Uni-Terra

A networking platform for the global exchange of information, experience and know-how in earth architecture and building with earth at an academic level.

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Groups.io forum

The Adobe Mud Brick Mailing List

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Organizations

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Adobe in Action, Santa Fe, NM

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Cob Research Institute, Berkeley, CA

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Cornerstones, Santa Fe, NM

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Mesilla Valley Preservation, Las Cruces, NM

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Santa Fe Community College Adobe Program, Santa Fe, NM

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Community Alliance for Sustainable Adobe (CASA), Taos, NM

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New Mexico Solar Energy Association (NMSEA), Albuquerque, NM

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Videos

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Mesilla Valley Preservation's video series about the natural process of salt attack, and its impact on adobe and earthen structures (links to YouTube):

 

1. Salts of the Earth: When Salts Attack!

2. Salts of the Earth: Identifying Salt Attack

3. Salts of the Earth: Understanding Salt Attack

4. Salts of the Earth: Accurately Detecting and Measuring Salts in the Field

5. Salts of the Earth: Remediating Salt Attack with Permeable Sacrificial Renders

6. Salts of the Earth: Adobe Sample Collection

7. Salts of the Earth: Lab Kit and Calibration

8. Salts of the Earth: Sample Processing and Analysis

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