Return to the Forest Natural Building School

21/08/2016

Check out our latest workshop for November 2016!!

2-week Natural Building Intensive
With Liz Johndrow and Charlie Rendall, at Atitlan Organics' Bamboo Guest House, Tzununá, Guatemala
13-26 November 2016

http://returntotheforest.org/natural-building-workshop-13-26-november-2016/

14/07/2016

Thank you RTF for allowing us to use the shop: https://youtu.be/uWGCtVJ05ew

12/02/2016

Sculpted cave dwellings by Ra Paulette in New Mexico

Isolated from society, he\'s been secretly working on this for 25 years. Now it\'s revealed and...WOW

24/01/2016

Check out this new Earthen Plastering and Natural Building Course with Liz Johndrow and Charlie Rendall at Atitlan Organics, Tzununá, Lake Atitlan, and please share with folks you know who might be interested!

15/12/2015

Bajareque Natural Building Workshop last week with
The Yoga Forest Permaculture students

We're continuing this friday with the second layer of earthen plaster. Volunteers welcome!

at the Parvulos kindergarten in ,

14/12/2015

Yoga Forest Permaculture students build the kindergarten boundary wall with bajareque - a mayan natural building techniques comparable to Wattle and Daub

28/10/2015

Transformación de basura en ladrillos resistentes.

25/09/2015

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13/09/2015

8-week earthen apprenticeship program in India
http://housealive.org/descriptions/8-week-earthen-building-apprenticeship-in-india/

8-week earthen apprenticeship program in India **FULL** Dates: October 31 – December 25, 2015 (add several days on each end for travel) Location: Jhamtse Gatsal, Arunachal Pradesh, India (near the border with Bhutan and Tibet). Instructors: Coenraad Rogmans, James Thomson, and Kate Elridge Cost: $34…

01/09/2015

Why Bamboo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nWzNRnvO6M

This interview was conducted by Kevin Rowell on the terrace of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. At the time he was a guest of the Natural Builders on a Bo...

27/05/2015

Our latest post by resident intern Isaac Fairbank

26 May 2015 Natural Building on Any House: a Bamboo, Lime, and Earth Addition to a Cinder Block Home by Isaac Fairbank | posted in: Bajareque, Bamboo, Earth Building, Guatemala, Natural Building, Plastering, Projects | 0 My preparations for a week of travel to renew my 3-month visa here in Guatemala…

26/03/2015

A succinct presentation that captures some of what I've learned in 10 years of building with natural materials and why I keep doing it. Thank you Florent Faye for the original link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KQhbx3e_JM&feature=player_embedded

Anna Heringer, UNESCO Chair for Earthen Architecture, in this lecture presents a series of projects where the choice of building materials and techniques has...

26/01/2015

Check it out: http://returntotheforest.org/

26 Jan 2015 Coomunity Empowerment Through Skills Training | | This video is to thank YOU for contributing to this great project. We will keep you posted on our future progress and plans. An additional thank you to Appropriate Technology Collaborative for backing... READ MORE

08/09/2014

The cabin is almost there. Thanks to all the wonderful support. The door has just been put on!!

23/07/2014

Great second day! We put up the columns and are getting the main roof frame together. Charlie also taught us about foundations!

22/07/2014

Great first day on the Bamboo Building course. Learned about the bamboo plant and began the Market Community Pavilion. Here are some pictures:

27/06/2014

Architect’s Scale Model of the Tzununá Market Pavilion

23/06/2014

http://www.naturalbuildingblog.com/return-to-the-forest-natural-building-school/

“The Natural Building School was founded in 2008 and has been hosting a variety of popular courses on Natural Building, Permaculture, and Appropriate Technologies. Return to the Forest strives to educate the world on sustainable building practices to complement the global movement in ecological livi…

23/06/2014

They put our short video on their website! http://www.mountunion.edu/mechanical-engineering-major Go mount union!!

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20/06/2014

Here is a selection of pictures from recent projects. Photo credit goes to Nathaniel Steinrueck and Aidan Lysaght.

20/06/2014

Great news reduced course cost!! Check it out and reserve your spot before it fills up: Check out www.returntotheforest.org

12/06/2014

Come by for some fun this Saturday 9am @ La Cambalacha!

02/06/2014

http://returntotheforest.org/bamboo-cabin-build-rtf-guatemala/

The bamboo cabin has over 8 wall systems attempting to asses the most viable and affordable option for healthy Guatemalan housing. The walls use viarations of different earthen fills, lime fills, n...

31/05/2014

Right here on our own soil! Great Project

ATC and Mount Union work on an affordable housing project in Guatemala.

21/05/2014

We had some fun....

19/05/2014

Return to the Forest's Meiker Project to provides a local tool library and skill training for carpentry and bamboo. We're proud of the work we've done already.

This video is to thank YOU for donating money to this great project. We will keep you posted on our future progress and plans

13/05/2014

Working in cooperation with The Appropriate Technology Collaborative and the Comite Campesino del Altiplano coffee cooperative, the RTF team applied the Aprovecho fuel-efficient stove design to demonstrate at the CCDA training center.

03/05/2014

Thanks for the blog post From Soil to Soul: http://fromsoiltosoul.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/building-with-bamboo-courses-in-june-and-july/

Anybody interested in building with Bamboo? Seriously Recommended! Check out this Bamboo Building course in San Marcos de Atitlán for June or July. In the best possible setting, on a lake surrounde...