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 Helping Ontarians gain access to the tools and information you need to have a low cost and affordable housing. Construction of buildings using Low-tech solutions will ensure people in our community have places to live just by using basic materials and simple tools.

With the increases in rent and home prices homelessness is on the rise.  Finding simple suitable, sustainable and affordable housing across Ontario requires higher wages to afford to live in certain areas. Drawing on the age-old technique of rammed earth building, earthbag uses woven sack material to provide a ready-made, leave-in-place formwork for containing rammed earth mixtures.  Simple !

Many of the homes featured were models of innovation and energy efficiency and featured living roofs, natural clay wall finishes, rainwater catchment systems, grey water systems, composting toilets, while others incorporated solar and wind electrical systems, high efficiency wood burning appliances, solar domestic hot water systems, as well as a variety of other interesting green technologies. 

  "Natural building" is an umbrella term than connotes any sort of building that is accomplished with the use of natural materials primarily, as opposed to the use of man-made or industrial materials. 

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Being innovative and improving our techniques over time has enabled HPM to approach sustainable architecture from a different lens to build an amazing variety of structures using little more than the earth beneath your feet. 

Global awareness of environmental issues such as climate change and resource depletion has grown dramatically in recent years. As a result, there has been a surge of interest in developing alternative building techniques and materials which are capable of meeting our structural needs with lower energy and material consumption.