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HEMPCRETE TICKS ALL THE BUILDING BOXES

SO YOU want to build a sustainable house. You probably have a really good idea of design principles, but what material is best for the walls? Thirty five years ago Alice and I built two mudbrick buildings. We were young and fit, but it was still quite an effort to make 4,000 mudbricks by hand over the summer of ’81-’82, even with occasional help from interested friends. If we were starting

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