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Advance Praise for

The Natural Plaster Book

The Natural Plaster Book is to mud what the Kama Sutra is to sex.
Filled with interesting tips and techniques, good attention to detail, well-illustrated

it just plain makes you want to do it! An excellent resource for the
novice as well as the professional.

Kaki Hunter & Doni Kiffmeyer, authors of Earthbag Construction

This is the comprehensive book on plasters that natural builders
have been waiting for. The Natural Plaster Book is not only an excellent
overview of earth, lime, gypsum and other ecologically sound plastering options,
but also provides an introduction to different ecological building techniques,
design advice for plastered buildings, and resources for further research. Filled
with useful tips and evocative photos and drawings, The Natural Plaster Book
should prove to be an essential addition to any natural builders library.

Joseph F. Kennedy, Co-editor of The Art of Natural Building,
Director of Builders Without Borders, and faculty member in
New College of Californias EcoDwelling program.

The Natural Plaster Book makes the ancient art and science of
natural plastering accessible-to the professional plasterer and to the
owner-builder. It provides step by step instructions for creating beautiful,
healthy, and enduring interior and exterior wall finishes.As an architect, the
book has the resources I need to specify natural plaster finishes in my homes.

Paula Baker-Laporte A.I.A., co-author of Prescriptions for a Healthy House

At long last, a book that effectively unravels the mysteries of
natural plasters for all builders interested in creating their own beautiful,
non-toxic, earth-friendly homes. Cedar and Dan have compiled this hard-to-find,
practical information into a single source that speaks from their lifes work
experience and focus on healthy building alternatives.This book will expand
the consciousness of everyone who likes to play in the mud!

Steve Kemble, Co-producer of
How To Build Your Elegant Home with Straw Bales

DEDICATION

To our children:
Cedars daughter and son, April and Summer,
and Dans two sons, Forrest and Skyler.

Acknowledgments

MANY PEOPLE HAVE HELPED US throughout this project, answering questions over the phone or via e-mails, or through their written materials or interviews. Many thanks to all of them, including Matts Myhrman, Judy Knox, Steve Kemble, Carol Escott, Chris Magwood, Bob Campbell, Kaki Hunter, Doni Kiffmeyer, David Eisenberg, Bill and Athena Steen, Carole Crews, Shay Salomon, Catherine Wanek, Linda Smiley, Ianto Evans, Robert Laporte, Paula Baker-LaPorte, Kai Stapelfeldt, Charmaine Taylor, Niko Horster, Michael Smith, Kiko Denzer, Frank Andersen, Carmen Velarde, Albert Andrews, Jr., Dorothy Andrews, and Reto Messmer. Wed like to thank Keith Lindauer, Johnny Weiss, Linda Smiley, Catherine Wanek, Doni Kiffmeyer, Kaki Hunter, Jean-Louis Bourgeois, and Edith and Alex Forrester for the photos theyve provided. If we have forgotten anyone, we apologize profusely.

A world of thanks to our families for their love and support through the many months of writing and rewriting. And, of course, wed be remiss if we didnt acknowledge the folks at New Society Publishers. At the helm of this splendid ship is Chris Plant, whose patience, guidance, and unwavering support have been nothing short of phenomenal, for which we are eternally grateful. Many thanks to Deanne Bednar for her delightfully skillful drawings which grace the pages of this book. We would like to acknowledge with tremendous gratitude the rest of the staff at New Society, especially Greg Green, production manager and art director, and Sue Custance, production coordinator, for their assistance in the preparation of this book.

Foreword

THERE IS AN OLD CHINESE SAYING, If we dont change direction, we will surely end up where we are headed. The world we inhabit and are irreversibly interconnected with is in deep trouble; every natural system on earth is in decline, some precipitously. We, as human beings, must choose to claim responsibility for the cumulative results of the choices that have brought us to this critical point in the history of our planet. It will take enormous effort and courage to move beyond our ordinary way of doing things; it will take each and every one of us, acting on choices that arise from our deepest inclinations to affirm life.Whats at the heart of our human existence is that there is an essential part of us that yearns even clamors to champion the breakthroughs necessary to restore and sustain life.

There is no area of life needing dramatic change more than the way we in the developed world go about housing ourselves housing that is often toxic to both the planet and its inhabitants. In the United States, our buildings account for 40% of all material and energy use, 35% of greenhouse gas production, and 28% of municipal solid waste. Since the 1940s, floor space per person in new homes has nearly tripled. Our houses demonstrate many unhealthy habits: use of energy-consumptive, unhealthy, manmade materials; ecologically destructive misuse of natural materials; decades of mortgage loan debt, the payment of which requires excessive amounts of time and energy energy needed for ourselves, our families, our communities; the familys almost complete disconnection from the design/building process of their homeplace; and, overarching all, our seemingly insatiable need for way more than enough to meet our basic needs.

As leaders of the straw-bale construction revival, we constantly asked ourselves how we could best demonstrate and inspire a move from egocentric to ecocentric buildings. As champions of natural building, the transformative power of our work together resides in developing our ability to inform and inspire others to build our technologies and workplaces into bridges of learning and demonstration for the legions of people who cant imagine how we can get from here (serving the imperatives of a consumer-driven, growth-oriented, anthropocentric world) to there (creating just, sustainable societies that bring the human species into balance with itself and the planet). Real champions dedicate themselves to reflecting hope out into a distressed world not blind hope, but hope that rises out of developing and teaching real and do-able ways to meet our basic human needs within a restorative and sustainable framework.

Our hats are off to champions Dan Chiras and Cedar Rose Guelberth, who have spent years gathering information, learning, teaching, trying out new ways of doing things, discarding what doesnt work, improving those things that do work, collaborating with others in the natural building community, and, most impressively, making the effort to turn their knowledge into usable and available tools for all of us.

The Natural Plaster Book is an open invitation to the champion in all of us; to add its hard-earned information to our tool kits, try it out in our homes and communities, modify, add, detract, collaborate with others, teach, learn, share to join in the step-by-step, conscious, choice-filled, joyful, and hopeful journey from here to there.

Judy Knox and Matts Myhrman

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