ABOUT US

Your hosts at greenhomebuilding.com are Kelly and Rosana Hart. We are happy to be able to provide you with the wide range of information related to sustainable architecture and natural building available at this site. As an example of natural building, the image at the upper left was taken during the construction of the earthbag house that served as our home in Southern Colorado for many years. A description of how we built it, with many pictures, can be found in the natural building section, under earthbag building, or you can click here. Now Kelly and Rosana live in Mexico most of the time.

Kelly has had a lifelong interest in building and has worked in construction professionally. Together, Kelly and Rosana operate Hartworks, Inc., which produces video programs and publishes books and markets them. Our website www.hartworks.com describes many of the books and videos that we sell. One of the more recent videos that we produced is titled "A Sampler of Alternative Homes: Approaching Sustainable Architecture", which profiles numerous natural building methods and tours many homes and interviews the builders or owners. This video, along with one about building our house, called "Building with Bags" is available here at the Store. In keeping with his interest in sustainable architecture, Kelly has been writing a book on this topic. In fact, it was while working on the resource guide for this book, that we realized that launching this website would be a good idea. Kelly is available for consulting on the topics of sustainable architecture in general, solar home heating, hybrid architecture, and earthbag and papercrete building see Ask the Experts for more information. Kelly also hosts a companion website to greenhomebuilding.com: visit www.dreamgreenhomes.com to see a wide range of ecological home plans for sale.

For many years we raised llamas and conducted hikes with the llamas on our 70 acre ranch near Ashland, Oregon. While there Rosana wrote two books: Living with Llamas: Tales from Juniper Ridge and Llamas for Love and Money. Recently Rosana launched another website to help preserve the legacy of her father who wrote science fiction under the pen name of Cordwainer Smith.

To see some recent photos that Kelly has taken, check this out:

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