Our Green Streets Blog

Architect and Builder Doug Eichelberger has an interesting way to use trash as a building material.  He has constructed several of the building at his Larkspur, Colorado ranch out of baled glossy paper and baled plastic bottles.  The buildings, finished in stucco, blend in well with the surrounding environment, disguising the truly green nature of these buildings.  Eichelberger sees buildings like those at his Lucky Ranch as a possible solution in developing countries around the world where trash is plentiful, and traditional building materials and methods prohibitively expensive. Read more of this >>

Here are a few more photos from Doug Eichelberger’s Lucky Ranch.  These were all shot inside his barn.  The barn features a foundation of bailed recycled plastic bottles, and the walls are baled glossy magazines covered in stucco.

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A few images from a recent trip to Doug Eichelberger’s Lucky Ranch, near Larkspur, Colorado.  This was a fantastic trip, with a number of really exciting green building techniques being discussed.  More to follow!

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Doug Eichelberger built his barn at Lucky Ranch using baled scrap plastic and scrap paper - source: Doug Eichelberger

There is plenty enough in the way of complaints about the trash we create and how wasteful we happen to be. But not much in the way of solutions.

So meet architect, Doug Eichelberger, a person who built a a good part of his Lucky Ranch barn out of trash. He used scrap plastic for the foundation blocks, then erected walls of baled trash paper. The wall materials were inexpensive and provided excellent insulating quality. Read more of this >>