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Author of books on "brown" building and "brown" living (Brown: Building brown is about simple, owner-built, shelter. It's small, inexpensive, hand-built, organic, natural, earthen, and one of a kind. It's artistic, sculpted, original, quaint. It's incorporating obtainium (found objects) into all aspects of living and building. It's NOT about LEED certification, bamboo flooring, dual flush toilets, low-flow shower heads, no VOC paints, expensive solar voltaic systems and rain water catchment systems—it's an old wooden barrel under a downspout or a hand-built composting toilet. It's a thatch roof, and walls made of mud/paper/straw and the like. It's rocket stoves, box stoves, passive solar, sun showers and gray water. It''s cheap, free, organic, earthy, hand-built and original).

I have built with every imaginable building material, including but not limited to: adobe (dirt), straw bales, tires, rocks, firewood, cobb, papercrete, concrete, old lumber, pallets, cans, broken pottery, bottles, wheels, metal grates, trash, trash cans, rubble, trees, mirrors, stumps, tin, metal can lids, soda bottle caps, fiber-plaster, railroad ties, old chain-link fencing, jars, marbles, cream cans, and even old refrigerators.