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Tong also is building a cob guesthouse in her parents’ backyard in Berkeley. Cob “is not something people are widely aware of, and I do think it should be one of the tools in the kit,” she said.

A cob house can be built for very little money compared to conventional houses. By using local materials found near your building site, you can save on supplies and transportation costs.

“Brown is the new green,” says Elliott, 50, who built a 120-square-foot cob house of his own on a ranch outside Sebastopol in west Sonoma County “Nothing is more sustainable.

Brian Liloia, a former Green Building Elements writer and a resident of an eco-village called The Dancing Rabbit, recently self-published his first book, "The of Year of Mud: Building a Cob House ...

Generally, we define a house by its wall system: timber frame, stick frame, concrete block, etc. The same is true in natural building: straw bale, cob, earthbag, and so on.

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For two years, Daniel and Katharine Ray worked on their house on their 5-acre property in the Bitterroot, building primarily out of cob -- a combination of dirt, clay, water and straw.