The
Natural
Homes Map
(larger version) shows you where to find natural homes of straw
bale, cob, earthbag, green oak timber frame and others with links
to the owner's web site. The Natural
Builders Map
shows you where you can find a natural builder with a link to
the builder's web site. For each map, slide the map around with
your mouse, zoom in and out using the slide bar. Click any of
the icons to see more details. You can see the homes on the Natural Homes List
too. Please contact us
to add more homes to the map or add
a home yourself.
If
you want to include the natural
homes map in your own blog, then please cut and
paste the code below in to your web site editor. This
code displays all natural homes.
If you want to include a single natural home construction
type on your blog then select the code from the appropriate
text box below. You can select from straw bale (which
includes load-bearing and infill straw bale homes),
cob, earthship, hempcrete, timber frame (includes green
oak), off-grid (homes that generate their own power),
strawclay, earthbag and cordwood.
Here's
how the straw bale house map looks.
The pictures in the blog map are smaller than in the version
on Natural Homes so that the map can fit in the standard blog
column width. If you would like a special version of the map
for you web site please get in touch and tell us what you need.
There
are lots of ways you can use the map. Here are some . . .
Web
sites that have used the map.
Natural
homes near major cities.
Builder's
and organisation's portfolios.
Eco-villages
There
are lots of ways you can use the map. Here's how:
The map takes three inputs. A construction
type, a builder or community group of houses, and a map location.
To pass your input to the map you use the character ?
The current list of construction types are:
all,
strawbale, cob,
earthship, hempcrete, timber, energy,
strawclay, earthbag, ricehull
and cordwood
To
display all strawbale houses on the map use the input ?strawbale.
You can see the result here.
To
add a second input use the character @. The input
?strawbale@amazonails will display all the strawbale
homes built by Amazonails, the UK straw bale builders. The map
automatically centres on the group of houses so that you see the
entire collection. Here's what you will see on the map.
If
you want to display all strawbale homes near Sacramento, USA,
then you need to add a third input, the map reference. This has
three parts separated by commas [latitude,longitude,zoom] To display
all strawbale homes around Sacramento
you need to input ?strawbale@all@38.57,-121.48,6
Here's what you get.
We hope you will enjoy using the map and help to promote natural
building across the World. If you are a builder and you would
like to add the homes you have built then please contact us at
house@naturalhomes.org.
You
can include an ecoHouse list in your blog too.
Left, is the strawbale list.
You can include an eco-house list in your blog that displays
all eco-houses by including the code here.
Or you can display a list of one type of eco-house such as
earthbag or straw bale using the appropriate iFrame code below.