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Bloggy Contest - Win My Favorite DVD

by Jennifer Chait on April 21st, 2008

I don’t do the Bloggy Giveaway normally, but I’m doing it at another blog, so I figured why not do it here as well. The prize I picked for this contest is really cool, my favorite DVD, well, technically this is not my favorite DVD ever - that would be Sleep With Me - a really cool movie.

This is however my favorite building DVD:

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Building With Awareness - A DVD & Guidebook On Building A Straw Bale Home is awesome. Not a new DVD, but in my opinion, one of the top straw bale resources. We’re talking 5 hours of how-to straw bale. The movie is excellent, and even though it’s long, you’ll be totally into it the entire time.

Take a look at the home in this movie:

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It’s a beautiful house - it’s actually right near where I used to live in New Mexico, hence the balloons. The DVD and guidebook are award winning (many times over) and cover building facts, costs, how-to visuals, ideas for planning, plus you’ll will learn how to construct post-and-beam straw bale walls to code, and also about how interior adobe thermal mass walls can improve efficiency. This home generates 100% of its own electricity with photovoltaic panels on the roof - which you’ll also learn about. There’s also a great chapter section on earth plaster walls - good, good stuff.

The guidebook was recently added to the DVD to make a complete set. I bought the DVD long before the guidebook came out, but other folks I know who have it say it’s great, just as informative as the DVD. It looks like it’s laid out nicely. Click on the picture below to see it closer up.

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Now if you want to win this DVD & Guidebook you’ll have to do something a little crazy…

Leave one comment on this post.

Ha, did I get ya?

No hoops to jump through - just leave a comment that says hey, or discusses the weather in London, or why you hate avocados, or even better, why you need this killer DVD, are you building a straw bale? It’s all good. Since I’m only doing the one prize, I’m making it easy for you. Unless you say something that’s insane, like “McMansions rule!” or “Scully sucks.”- you’re good to go.

  1. Enter by midnight Pacific Time on Saturday, April 26.
  2. I’ll draw a random winner and announce their name on April 27.

Oh, and while you’re at it you might want to enter the two contests going on at my green blog - one for mamas - and one for everyone. You also might want to visit the Bloggy website where there is likely to be 100s of contests by mid-week.

[photos via Building With Awareness]

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