Building With Awareness:
The Construction of a Hybrid Home

The Award-Winning* DVD Video
On Building Beautiful and
Energy-Efficient Homes With
Straw Bales and Other Green Materials

This DVD is the most detailed and comprehensive video ever made on the design and construction of a sustainable straw bale home. This beautifully photographed how-to DVD will show you how to build straw bale walls for insulation and adobe walls for interior thermal mass (which greatly increases the efficiency of a straw bale home), earth plasters for a beautiful finish, 100% electrical generation by sunlight, and passive solar heating and cooling. This video could save you thousands of dollars in design and construction costs. Beautiful aesthetics and energy-efficiency can both come from the same materials. It is how the structure is designed as a whole that makes the difference. Follow the design and construction of one house - from start to finish - and see how aesthetics, comfort, and energy efficiency can all come from the same materials and design parameters. This video is packed with green design and construction techniques from professionals working on the cutting edge of home building and design in this field. Although the video emphasizes the idea of building small, the concepts can be scaled to any size structure. Whether you are a novice builder or a professional, you will learn about rubble-trench foundations, post-and-beam framing for straw bale walls, step-by-step straw bale building techniques, adobe wall construction, roof framing, roof insulation, acid-stained concrete floors, rainwater cisterns, gray water plumbing, photovoltaic electrical systems, wiring for straw bale and adobe construction, radiant floor heat, window placement and installation, green materials, earth plaster techniques, and much more.This video is our own production.
Price: $35.00

* Recipient of 3 Telly Awards, including the highest award for Outstanding Multimedia DVD. The Telly Awards honor outstanding local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions nationwide.

Concrete Countertops DIY (Instructional DVD)
featuring Fu-Tung Cheng

If you are interested in building your own concrete countertops, this DVD is a "must have." In this simple to follow DVD, industry expert Fu-Tung Cheng guides you step-by-step through the process--from templating the design, through building the molds, mixing and pouring, finishing, and sealing and waxing, this DVD covers it all. This is a high quality production, with good sound and lighting and multiple camera angles. It is the perfect companion to Cheng's first book,"Concrete Countertops", which has become the definitive guide to the subject. The DVD also shows how to use some new products which were not around when the book was written.