![]() “We have a better idea: rebuilding with the people and materials at hand-the ‘natural’ solution.” Straw Bale Construction By JonathanCross_©/w/index.php?curid=8992852 “A hungry man does not so much need a fish but a fishing pole, and though that ancient folk wisdom gets endlessly repeated, the world keeps sending fish,” King wrote in one of his blog posts. King aims to teach Haitians how to construct with local materials like concrete rubble and bamboo instead of the imported steel and wood. More recently, King took his engineering skills to Port au Prince after the region’s devastating earthquake. He also wrote the ASTM building standard for earthen buildings. Being the founder of the nonprofit Ecological Building Network and the author of books on straw-bale construction and high-volume fly-ash concrete, King’s contribution to building with local materials has been immense. Today, many years later, you can find King traveling around North America conducting seminars on how to build with natural or local materials like clay or what King termed “ urban natural materials ,” which could include barbed wire, car tires, or any other “waste” materials in the urban environment that can be reused as a construction material.
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