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-Earthbag building then, is a modern twist on perhaps humanity’s most important building tradition. +Earthbag building is a modern twist on perhaps humanity’s most important building tradition. 
-earthbag2+Bags or tubes are filled with earth (a suitable aggregate, sometimes with additions, and if you’e really lucky it’ll just be the stuff you moved to make the site for your building), and then placed in walls; barbed wire is used as a tie or ‘mortar’, and the bags are ‘rammed’. Most often then, the earth cures, and makes solid walls which no longer rely on the bags or tubes for their integrity.
  
-Earthbag building in Nepal with cement bond-beam in place(timber would be more usual in eco-builds).+From its origins in the building of military bunkers, and in flood defence, earthbag has been developed and applied around the worldIt has been widely tested both structurally and thermally.
  
-Bags or tubes are filled with earth (a suitable aggregate, sometimes with additions, and if you’re really lucky it’ll just be the stuff you moved to make the site for your building), and then placed in walls; barbed wire is used as a tie or ‘mortar’, and the bags are ‘rammed’. Most often then, the earth cures, and makes solid walls which no longer rely on the bags or tubes for their integrity.+===== Videos =====
  
-From its origins in the building of military bunkers, and in flood defence, earthbag has been developed and applied around the worldIt has been widely tested both structurally and thermally.+[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQw0D9hRSEA&t=4m22s|Superadobe for building foundation]]
  
-The history of earth bag building is covered in detail in a very readable article by Kelly Hart.+[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEqtBt86kmQ|What is superadobe?]]
  
 +===== Pros and Cons =====
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 https://www.lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/earth-bag-building/\\ https://www.lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/earth-bag-building/\\
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-//source: https://canadiandirtbags.wordpress.com/2012/10///+source: https://canadiandirtbags.wordpress.com/2012/10\\ 
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-==== Links ====+===== Links =====
  
-  * http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/+  * http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/\\
   * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPz61MWn8xw \\   * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPz61MWn8xw \\
   * http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthbag.htm \\   * http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthbag.htm \\
   * http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/ \\   * http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/ \\
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