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Websites of interest...

(Greatly expanded and updated on April 22, 2007)


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Stone Circles

Our own Big Stones website provides information on gatherings, events, workshops and megalithic resources.

Columcille Megalithic Park in Bangor, Pennsylvania is a wonderful site all fans of stone circles should visit. If you can't get there in person, and you should, visit their website at www.columcille.org 

Also, visit the Stone Circle Webring for over 250 more websites having to do with stone circles and other megalithic matters. This Big Stones website is a member of Stone Circle Webring.

Time Circles is the website of Dominic Ropner in Cranleigh, Surrey, England, who has been building beautiful stone circles and single standing stones in England for years. Lots of great pictures. Need a circle in England? See Dom.

Of wider interest is the magazine Archaeology and its companion website. The current issue (and the website) has an article about how the Great Pyramid may have been built using an internal ramp which may still exist and also has an ad for MegaCo/07.

MegaCo/07 Presenters

Click here for the website of Ivan McBeth, stone circle builder, and teacher of shamanic studies. Ivan is a presenter at MegaCo/07 and has co-instructed with Rob Roy at past Megalithic workshops at Earthwood.

Vince Lee may very well be the world's leading expert on how the magnificent Incan megalithic stonework might have been done. Check out his website here 

Gordon Pipes's work in the field of megalithics can be viewed at www.stonehengetheanswer.com

Rob Roy's megalithic work is found in Big Stones, while his work in alternative building, especially cordwood masonry and earth-sheltered housing, is at the Earthwood site: www.cordwoodmasonry.com 

Cordwood Masonry

Rob and Jaki Roy's Earthwood Building school can be accessed by clicking www.cordwoodmasonry.com 

Daycreek has profiles of cordwood masons, and the best and most accurate cordwood masonry interactive forum on the internet. (Beware of a different cordwood forum managed by a malicious & anonymous host.) 

Rob Roy often writes cordwood masonry and other articles for BackHome Magazine. 

Green Home Building is Kelly Hart's extensive website on all sorts of green building alternatives, including cob, strawbale, cordwood and much more. Rob Roy answers questions about Cordwood Masonry on this site, currently with many thousands of words of  Q&A's .

Erica Bush has a charming new website about a cute little cordwood and timber frame retreat that she built as part of her architectural thesis. Check it out  here .

Natural Building

Fox Maple is a building school specializing in traditional heavy timber framing. 

Natural Homes   Natural Homes  is an international site by Oliver Blake Swann, with green building happenings all over the worls. Even has an article about MegaCo/07 MegaCo/07.

The Natural Building Network is a fine clearing house for all sorts of information on green and natural building, including a list of upcoming workshops all over North America. Go to www.nbnetwork.org 

Renewable Energy and Fairs

Midwest Renewable Energy Association hosts the world's best renewable energy and sustainable housing fair for three days each June. For 2007, it's June 15th to 17th. Earthwood will have a booth there, as usual.

The Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair takes place September 15th and 16th, 2007 in Fort Collins, Colorado. Click here  for info. Earthwood will be setting up there this year for the first time. 

Home Power Magazine provides hands-on articles and related information for those interested in producing their own electricity.


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