Deconstruction........................................................................................................................................ 184 Recycling and Community Development............................................................................................... 192 Challenges in Closing Material Cycles................................................................................................... 196 CHAPTER V: ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS NATURAL BUILDING............................................................................................................................. 203 Building with (the) Earth........................................................................................................................ 205 Rammed Earth........................................................................................................................................ 207 Adobe and Compressed Earth Blocks .................................................................................................... 211 Cob ......................................................................................................................................................... 215 Light-Clay .............................................................................................................................................. 217 Straw Bale .............................................................................................................................................. 219 Earthships ............................................................................................................................................... 223 Timber Frame and Stone ........................................................................................................................ 227 Cordwood Masonry ................................................................................................................................ 229 Bamboo .................................................................................................................................................. 232 Earthbags and Papercrete........................................................................................................................ 233 The Future of Natural Building Materials .............................................................................................. 236 CHAPTER VI: CONSUMPTION GREEN CONSUMERISM, LOCAL MARKETS AND BIOREGIONALITY ......................................... 240 Regenerative Consumerism.................................................................................................................... 240 Information, Isolation and the Limits of Private Consumerism.............................................................. 243 Community Consumerism: the Green Communities Initiative .............................................................. 246 Information, Value and Green Markets: the SPPC................................................................................. 249 Building Supply Retailing ...................................................................................................................... 251 Building Centres as Conservation Utilities............................................................................................. 255 Green Procurement................................................................................................................................. 258 Grassroots Regulation: Information, Value and Green Markets............................................................. 262 CHAPTER VII: NEW RULES AND REGULATION: EPR, SERVICE, SOCIETY AND THE STATE........................................................................................ 264 Regulation and Development ................................................................................................................. 264 The Corporate Attack on Regulation...................................................................................................... 266 The Design Perspective on Regulation................................................................................................... 268 Postindustrial Trends in Regulation........................................................................................................ 272 Integrated Product Policy ....................................................................................................................... 275 Transforming Markets with EPR............................................................................................................ 278 Horizons for EPR: Intelligent Products and Product-Service Systems................................................... 282 Substance Bans and Phaseouts ............................................................................................................... 285 The State, Taxes and Subsidies .............................................................................................................. 287 Development By-Laws and Building Codes .......................................................................................... 291 The State as Coordinator ........................................................................................................................ 293 CHAPTER VIII: CONCLUSION BUILDING MATERIALS IN A POST-MATERIALIST TRANSITION................................................. 296 Knowledge and Value ............................................................................................................................ 298 Transforming Consumption.................................................................................................................... 299 Labour, Materials and Invisibility .......................................................................................................... 301 Development Strategy ............................................................................................................................ 304