PHOTO BY OWEN GEIGER
Owen Geiger of Earthbagbuilding.com built an earthbag dome with a green roof and wrote an article about it for Mother Earth News. Green roofs have several positive aspects:
- They retain water from precipitation instead of creating problems with runoff.
- They reduce the cooling load on a building and reduce the “heat island effect” in cities.
- They provide extra insulation.
The Huffington Post asked readers to submit photos of green roofs. Geiger submitted a photo of the earthbag dome, and it made the top 10! Now it’s time to make it No. 1! You can vote for your favorite here (hint: the earthbag dome is photo No. 9).
Earthbag construction is a low-cost method of making sturdy, long-lasting buildings. The do-it-yourself article explaining the process of this method is scheduled for the August/September 2009 issue of Mother Earth News.
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