How-Tos: Educational Resources
Designing Your Vegetable Garden
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solarwaterheaterdesigns
Windows, Doors, and Skylights
Insulation and Ventilation in Buildings
Composting
Earth Plasters and Aliz
A clay slip, known to some as an aliz can be applied to an earth-plastered wall almost like paint is used on other surfaces…
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Earthen Floors
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Electricity
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Graywater Guide: Using Graywater in Your Home Landscape
Are you tired of watching your bathing and laundry water go down the drain when it could be put to good use on your landscape…
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Harvest the Rain
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Information Guide to Straw Bale Building
For self-builders and the construction industry
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On Site, Environmentally Sound Wastewater Treatment
Before the advent of the flush toilet, humanure, or ‘night soil,’ was applied to the land, and purchased as valuable commodity…
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Pallet Building
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Passive Solar Home Design
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Straw Bale
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The Heat-Kit Planning Guide
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The Merits of Earthbag Building
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The Sawdust Toilet
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Guiding Values
Traditional knowledge, practices, and the strengthening of traditional economies form the foundation of resilient, sustainable Nations, and should be the guide for any development work.
Development plans and projects must be community directed. People of their community are the best ones to serve their community, having intimate knowledge of their culture, their nation, and their resources. Our consultants and trainers serve as resources that community members can draw upon to develop their own strategies and planning, utilizing a ‘training the trainers’ model.
Our work serves on-the-ground planning, development, and implementation. We support policy development initiatives, but the role of Sustainable Nations as an organization is tangible hands-on training and development work.
News & Updates
Indigenous Sustainability Webinar for Tribal Colleges
Sustainable Nations seeks Media Intern
Sustainable Nations has an opening for a Media Intern! We are seeking applicants with the… Read More
Indigenous Sustainable Community Design Course
T JULY 3-15, 2011 in Northern Arizona. For more information contact:tnafa_org@yahoo.com and download an applicationHERE.… Read More