An Affordable Green Roofed Cellar

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An Affordable Green Roofed Cellar

I've been thinking for some time about an affordable, but environmentally friendly way of building myself a root cellar. This one from Mother Earth News reminds me a lot of the one my Grandpa Dixon built back in the 1950's. Go check it out and go vote for it at the same time. Thank you.

Scott A. Pullins, Esq.
Publisher,
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An Affordable Green Roof

1/21/2009 10:23:15 AM

By Troy Griepentrog

Tags: natural building

PHOTO BY OWEN GEIGER

Owen Geiger of Earthbagbuilding.com built an earthbag dome with a green roof and wrote an article about it for Mother Earth News. Green roofs have several positive aspects:

They retain water from precipitation instead of creating problems with runoff.
They reduce the cooling load on a building and reduce the "heat island effect" in cities.
They provide extra insulation.

The Huffington Post asked readers to submit photos of green roofs. Geiger submitted a photo of the earthbag dome, and it made the top 10! Now it's time to make it No. 1! You can vote for your favorite here (hint: the earthbag dome is photo No. 9).

Earthbag construction is a low-cost method of making sturdy, long-lasting buildings. The do-it-yourself article explaining the process of this method is scheduled for the August/September 2009 issue of Mother Earth News.

Posted by Scott Pullins at 1/23/2009 10:35 AM

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