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WomenRise For Global Peace
Supporting Natural Building Development in Santa Cruz, California and Wounded Knee, South Dakota

We realize that having a safe home and food to eat are pre-requisites for peace in the mind and heart. By supporting natural house village development, we support every human being in acquiring these basic human needs. If we support organization of natural, healthy villages; environmentally sensitive sustainable communities, where everyone is fed and has a home, then we have succeeded in seeding a peace culture on our planet. This, is simple reality.

Join us in promoting peace as a value, a basic human need, and the means for protecting our planet and our species. Perhaps in our lifetime, we will see this shift become a reality.

~Let us participate in cultural evolution~

One of our WomenRise members was invited out to the Lakota nation, at Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge reservation to re-introduce methods of earth house construction. The Lakota people have maintained a strong interest in sustainable village development. Earth building, made popular in the west by Ianto Evans, Linda Smiley and Michael Smith, is an evolution of Cob building, an old Welsh method of mixing earth, sand, clay and straw, with water, and forming it into a wall for a hand sculpted, rock solid home. A safe, beautiful earth home can be constructed for as little as $500, US.

WomenRise would like to thank our indigenous brothers and sisters, who helped us fully realize the potential for spiritual, environmental and cultural protection that natural house development offers.

There is limited space for those interested in learning, camping and building. Camping conditions are primitive. Use site contact email for questions. Donations accepted. See needs list posted below.

Labor for building can be sought through day treatment programs for people needing supervision and healthy activity. Any body and age can participate safely with fun, playful earth building.

Examples of WomenRise member creations of an earth/cob bench, oven, dragon sculpture and work area can be viewed at the Live Oak Grange garden on 17th avenue in Santa Cruz, CA. Cob house photo credits go to Nancy Chase.

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The Natural House Village: Using 100% natural and recycled materials

Building with the living earth heals both the body, and the mind. It supports us in slowing down enough to realize that being healthy, happy and surrounded by family enjoying the goodness of creation is the main thing we are here to do. Using this form of community development, we can produce food, energy, products, families of joy and villages and temples of worship and well being.

Earth and strawbale/light-straw and other natural, sustainable building combinations have been proven stable and safe in any practically and knowlegebly chosen location on our globe. When properly designed and built, they have been shown as safe in earthquake, tornado and other extreme conditions.

Current building site delivery address: available upon request.

Donating to this project means helping support family oriented, affordable living systems for the collective, family or group who is committed enough to create one. Currently we are supporting construction in Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

All money donated goes for food for families and friends working and tools and building supplies for those in desperate need of housing.

Our resources are held in trust by the Great Questions Foundation,
and donations are tax deductible and distributed through a council
review process.

Thank You for caring enough to give!
Your generosity grows peaceful, cultural evolution

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Natural House Builders Tool Kit includes:

Excavation tools (maddock,pilaski,grub hoe) for loosening soil and digging trenches; shovels, for shoveling earth and sand; all sizes for all sizes of helpers;
tarps; used five gallon buckets; carpenters levels; machetes; files for tool sharpening; wooden cobbers thumbs; pocket knife; wheelbarrow; 55 gallon drums; squirt bottles; spades for digging; garden forks; screens; hoes of different shapes/sizes; hatchets; old handsaws; short handled adze; saws with course teeth; spud shovel; Jars; scaffolding; duct tape; measuring tapes; plasterers trowels; mixing boats; wood tools; chain saws; capentry tools; rock tools (for foundation work) cold chisels; crowbars; safety glasses; masonry trowels; 3 pound hammers
sheets of plywood; rope colored flagging tape; glass cutter; paintbrushes;
drainage pipes; plumbing and wiring materials.

Also appreciated on site: Loads of sand, gravel, rubble, cement chunks, lumber of all kinds, logs and poles, square and two sided flat rocks, clay if needed.

Also appreciated: Brochure distribution. Financial gifts; these purchase food for familes working.

For more information on earth homes and sustainable natural house village development go to:

www.emeraldearth.org | www.pachamama.org | www.ecobusinesslinks.com www.wattlehollow.com | www.kleiwerks.com | www.localharvest.org

Download the Natural House Villages brochure
feel free to use this brochure to promote this concept in your area….

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