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Advance Praise for

Building Without Borders

Building Without Borders is the most important recent book on

sustainable building, because it’s about serving those in greatest need of

inexpensive, efficient, and culturally and locationally appropriate housing — the

world’s poorest billions. From Manila to Mexico City, Calcutta to Caracas, Nairobi

to Rio de Janeiro, vast teeming slums shame us all and dim the human prospect.

Building Without Borders shows practical ways to make the world

better and safer, one dwelling at a time.

—A MORY L OVINS , CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute and

sustainable home owner/designer

Building Without Borders shows, with an elegant and understated

flourish, that housing the world’s burgeoning population is not an intractable

problem — that the poor and displaced can and do house themselves with

affordable solutions, and that the best of these have a sensitivity to the

human ecology that points us all to a better future.

— A LBERT B ATES , President, Global Ecovillage Network

The book we all have waited for. Quite unique in development literature, and

full of thought-provoking case studies, applicable to our own housing problems.

Empowering and encouraging.

— I ANTO E VANS is owner/director of the North American School of Natural Building

and Cob Cottage Company, co-author of The Hand-Sculpted House and

Helping People in Poor Countries

Advance Praise continued

Rarely does one movement address so many needs so elegantly.

In Building without Borders , an articulate, caring community of

natural builder/activists recounts everything from the housing and ecological

problems to be addressed, to the nuts and bolts (or mud and straw) of the

building techniques employed, to the complex social issues of how

white Americans can work effectively with indigenous people worldwide,

and ultimately the satisfaction of housing people while teaching them

skills they can use to house others.The world is a richer place

for the work that is chronicled here, and my own

world is richer for having read about it.

—C AROL V ENOLIA , eco-architect, Natural Home Magazine columnist,

and author of Healing Environments

This book is truly inspirational and a great source of information

for those wanting to enter the world of development and low cost sustainable

building. As a natural building development worker, I have been waiting for

a book like this to again feel reconnected with all the activities going

on in this field. It would be fantastic if there were a new volume

that came out every decade to present the contemporary

problems of this forever changing global crisis.

— P AULINA W OJCIECHOWSKA , author, Building With Earth,

www.EarthHandsAndHouses.org

Building Without Borders

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