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Emergency Sandbag Shelter and Eco-Village Manual - How to Build Your Own with Superadobe / Earthbag
Emergency Sandbag Shelter and EcoVillage Manual How to Build Your Own with Superadobe / Earthbag Author:Nader Khalili "Emergency Sandbag Shelter" is a must-have manual for every home, as an emergency guide. — Now for the first time this book is made available to people around the world by its inventor, award-winning architect Nader Khalili, whose specialty was skyscrapers and who has now dedicated his life to teaching how to build shelter for humanity. — The book... more » shows how to use sandbags and barbed wire, the materials of war, for peaceful purposes as the new invention known as Superadobe or earth-bag, which can shelter millions of people around the globe as a temporary as well as permanent housing solution.
This affordable, self-help, sustainable, and disaster resistant structural system is a spin off from Khalili's presentation to NASA for habitat on the moon and Mars, which successfully passed rigorous tests for strict California earthquake building codes.
This book along with a small library of films and kits can guide anyone to learn and teach how to build a home or community.
Cal-Earth, as a nonprofit organization, has an ongoing educational project of a Distance Learning Program, connecting directly from the institute to individuals, schools, NGOs and disaster struck areas in need of shelter around the world, as well as hands-on interactive apprenticeship programs at the institute.« less