[Scpg] Malibu Cob Workshop with Ianto Evans! Sunday March 21, 2004

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Malibu Cob Workshop with Ianto Evans! Sunday March 21, 2004
A co-sponsored event by The Cob Cottage Company, Wright Way Organic 
Resource Center, and LA Permaculture Guild.
A rare opportunity to meet the innovator of North American Cob, co-founder 
of Cob Cottage Company, co-author of "The Hand Sculpted House,” and the 
instigator of a renaissance of natural building





Ianto Evans !
Come spend an afternoon and evening at the Wright Land in Malibu with 
Master of Natural Building, Ianto Evans. We will be learning the basics of 
cob while we mix a few batches to “update” an existing cob bench. Afterward 
we will all share the evening with Ianto. Activities will include a 
delicious organic dinner, slide show, book signing, and opportunities to 
talk and ask Ianto questions.
What?
- introduction and hands on demonstration of cob building
(we will be updating an existing cob bench)
- organic dinner
- slide show
- book signing (copies of "The Hand-Sculpted House” will be available for 
sale)
for more info. about What is cob? and Why use cob?
see below or check out http://www.deatech.com/cobcottage/
Where? The Wright Land - Malibu, CA.
for more info. and directions:
http://elwright.net/wrightway/location.html or call (818) 591-8992
When? Sunday March 21, 2004 - registration and introduction starts at 2 pm
How? $60 with RSVP by March 1, $75 at the door
includes lecture, hands-on demonstration, slide show, book signing, and 
organic dinner (sponsored by Common Vision http://www.commonvision.org )
$15 for slide show with RSVP by March 1, $20 at the door – starts at 7 pm
Please RSVP to Camille Cimino: camillecimino at earthlink.net or
by phone (213) 480-8002
Scholarships available through Wright Way contact Peg Butler at
mossdaisy@ yahoo.com
Schedule:
2 - 3 pm - arrive at Wright Land – registration & introduction
3 - 6 pm - lecture and hands on demonstration
6 - 7 pm - dinner
7 - 9 pm - slide show
9 - 9:30 pm - book signing
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· Building With Earth
Earth is probably still the world's commonest building material. The word 
cob comes from an old English root meaning a lump or rounded mass. Cob 
building uses hands and feet to form lumps of earth mixed with sand and 
straw, a sensory and aesthetic experience similar to sculpting with clay. 
Cob is easy to learn and inexpensive to build. Because there are no forms, 
ramming, cement or rectilinear bricks, cob lends itself to organic shapes: 
curved walls, arches and niches. Earth homes are cool in summer, warm in 
winter. Cob's resistance to rain and cold makes it ideally suited to cold 
climates like the Pacific Northwest, and to desert conditions.
Cob has been used for millennia even in the harsh climates of coastal 
Britain, at the latitude of the Aleutians. Thousands of comfortable and 
picturesque cob homes in England have been continuously occupied for many 
centuries and now command very high market values. With recent rises in the 
price of lumber and increasing interest in natural and environmentally safe 
building practices, cob is enjoying a renaissance. This ancient technology 
doesn't contribute to deforestation, pollution or mining nor depend on 
manufactured materials or power tools. Earth is non-toxic and completely 
recyclable. In this age of environmental degradation, dwindling natural 
resources, and chemical toxins hidden in our homes, doesn't it make sense 
to return to nature's most abundant, cheap and healthy building material?
· What is cob?
The word cob comes from an Old English root meaning "a lump or rounded 
mass". It's a traditional building technique using hand formed lumps of 
earth mixed with sand and straw. Cob is easy to learn and inexpensive to 
build. It dries to a hardness similar to lean concrete and is used like 
adobe to create self supporting, load bearing walls. Cob has been used for 
centuries throughout Western Europe, even in rainy and windy climates, as 
far north as the latitude of Alaska. This ancient technology doesn't 
contribute to deforestation, pollution or mining, nor depend on 
manufactured materials or power tools. Cob is nontoxic and completely 
recyclable, which is important in this era of environmental degradation, 
dwindling natural resources and chemical contaminants
For more info on Cob, Ianto Evans, and The Cob Cottage Company workshops:
http://wwwdeatech/cobcottage.com