The
Natural
Homes Map
shows you where you can find low-impact natural homes of straw
bale, cob, earthbag, green oak timber frame and others with links
to the owner's web site. We also have a Natural
Builders Map
that 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 and zoom in and out using the slide bar on the
left. Click any of the icons to see details. You can also see
the ecoHouse collection on the
Natural Homes List. Please
contact us to add
more builders
and ecoHomes
to the collection.
If
you want to include the natural homes
map in your own pages, then please cut and paste the code
below in to your web page or blog. This code displays all
natural homes.
If
you want to include a single low-impact natural home construction
type on your web site or blog then select the code from the appropriate
text box from the set below. You can select from straw bale (which
includes load-bearing and infill straw bale homes), cob, earthship,
hempcrete, timber frame (which includes green oak homes), off-grid
(homes that generate their own power), strawclay and cordwood
homes.
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 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.
If
you prefer you can include the ecoHouse list in your blog. Here's
how the eco-village list looks.
The pictures in the blog list 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 list
for you web site please get in touch and tell us what you need.
There
are lots of ways you can use the list. Here are some . . .
Display
a collection of a construction type.
Builder's
portfolios.
Eco-villages
You
can include the eco-house list for all eco-house types in
your blog by including this line of iFrame code.
Or
you can include the list for the eco-villages or a single construction
type like straw bale, earthship, off-grid homes, cordwood or cob
by selecting code from the windows below.