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About.com: http://www.hhinst.com/ A list of books about healthy Building Materials and indoor air pollution. design element learned: With Clean non polluting building materials 1500 cfm / occupant will keep BO in check but a air movement rate of 2500 cfm / occupant 24 hr / day is a better goal. The author speaks about the importance of building tight..... Wood frame and drywall is very difficult to make air tight... Adobe (or fidobe) over chicken wire and steel rebar is air tight and pest resistent. Insulated with natural compressed straw, it is air tight and sound proof, low toxicity, termites have no interest, ants have to crawl around on the exterior but cannot crawl through.

My next interest/ project is in the natural ways to water proof certain sections of this fidobe structure, possibly by firing the building or a section of it to melt a ceramic glaze upon the surface. Reference: Khalili in Isreal - building a Kibutz out of clay... Currently building a city in Senegal out of clay, sand bags and wire.