Earth Church is a pipeline-adjacent sanctuary built by participatory biconstruction using local natural materials: a beacon of resilience, respite, and community survival beyond chemical pollution.
The Earth Church is a community-built sanctuary and resistance symbol sited near a contested pipeline. Constructed from regional clay, straw, Spanish moss, and site-harvested wood, its honeycomb-inspired earthen forms demonstrate sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based construction materials.
This living classroom combines bioconstruction workshops with storytelling circles, uniting frontline activist communities through shared hands-on creation. People of all abilities contribute to the building process, gaining practical skills while strengthening collective resilience against extractive industries.
More than a structure, it's a space for regenerative futures: where art, ecology and activism converge. Through its very materiality and participatory creation, the Earth Church fosters solution-driven dialogue and cultivates tangible pathways to challenge fossil fuel dependence.
Join us for Bioconstruction Workshop II:
November 15 - 23, 2025
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For two weeks at the end of November 2024, Habitat Recovery Project hosted a Bioconstruction Workshop designed to teach our community, which is at the epicenter of the climate crisis, how to build using natural, reclaimed, non-toxic materials instead of petroleum-based building products. During this workshop, 65 people learned about Indigenous building practices, bioconstruction techniques and materials. Building materials were upcycled, sustainably sourced, or natural materials like Spanish Moss, clay, sand, and straw.
This project repurposed hundreds of gently used glass bottles into bottle bricks to create beautiful windows, in a structure that came to be known as an Earth Church.
