Past Sponsors

We are grateful to the following Benefactors:

We are grateful to the following Contributing Sponsors:

  • Connected Hearth
    Now from anywhere in the world you’re virtually home!
    Connected Hearth is an exciting website that lets you monitor and control your home from anywhere in the world. Through ConnectedHearth.com, you can control your security system, your heat and A/C, your indoor and outdoor lighting. You can pan a camera throughout your house. You can even have a hot cup of espresso waiting for you when you arrive. All this, from a computer. Wherever you happen to be. Visit our website for a live demo - www.connectedhearth.com
  • Old Pueblo Adobe Company
    Tucson, AZ * 85743
    Since 1984, Old Pueblo Adobe Company’s dedication to manufacturing quality, authentic Southwestern building materials has earned us the reputation as the best source in the Southwest. Located along Interstate 10 just north of Tucson, Arizona, is our 15 acre production facility and showroom. Here you will find the finest quality, authentic sun dried mud adobe being produced daily. In addition, our viga crew peels vigas & latillas on site, to assure you beautiful, hand peeled viga beams & posts to order. Corbels and beams are cut and carved or hand hewn to your specifications.
  • Ecological Building Network
    EBNet works to transform how we build shelter, for thte sake of these and future generations. The many societal and environmental problems associated with modern construction can be readily solved–but the vast majority of building professionals remain unaware that there exist any problems, much less of the solutions. EBNet fills this crucial gap by educating the building community, and making useful information about environmentally-friendly building materials readily available to all. EBNet Director Bruce King is also author of “Buildings of Earth and Straw” “Making Better Concrete; Guidelines for Using Fly Ash for Higher-Quality, Eco-Friendly Structures” and “Design of Straw Bale Buildings, the State of the Art”.
  • Quentin Branch’s Rammed Earth Solar Homes Inc.
    Since 1976, building earthen homes, offices, churches and public sculpture. Specializing in passive-solar homes that keep themselves warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Info at www.rammedearthhomes.com
  • Home Energy Magazine
    Home Energy magazine’s mission is to disseminate objective and practical information on residential energy efficiency, performance, comfort, and affordability. It is the only magazine that thoroughly covers residential comfort issues from the only approach that really works, systems engineering.
  • Urban Eagle Herb Co.
    The herbs that the Native people used were gathered mostly from the area in which they lived, and some were exchanged between distant tribes. All herbs were gathered with respect, at the proper time of day and season. They were either used immediately or carefully dried and stored. We take great care in choosing our herbs and do our upmost to follow the traditions of the Native Americans.
  • Heritage Conservation Network
    Heritage Conservation Network is a non-profit organization actively promoting the conservation of historic architecture and sites. Heritage Conservation Network offers hands-on workshops that allow volunteer participants to literally get in touch with history. Experts lead each workshop and provide training in a variety of conservation techniques, addressing the problems of historic materials unique to each structure.
  • Edgewood Partners, LLC
    Edgewood Partners, an investment advisory firm, is committed to optimized investment performance and carefully managed risk. We believe the best way to accomplish these goals is to invest in sustainable companies on a global basis.
  • ParexLahabra, Inc
    ParexLahabra is an innovative and responsible manufacturer of wall coatings, tile installation materials and specialty products. Established in 1968, El Rey has earned a reputation for consistent, high-quality products backed by industry-leading service and support. In 2005 LaHabra, El Rey, and Parex merged to create ParexLahabra, Inc., the largest facade manufacturer in the United States.
  • Builders Without Borders
    A Canadian not-for-profit company whose purpose is to provide Building Industry consultants and volunteers for work with international Non Government Organizations (NGO’s) to construct shelter, and teach building industry skills to those most in need and to provide this without prejudice regarding race, religion, gender or political affiliations.
  • Mule Creek Adobe
    Manufacturer of traditionally molded and hand-finished Adobe brick, our block is lab certified for strength and weather resistance. We are going through some major rennovations and upgrades here. We bought out the old Hans Sumpf plant and are busy putting it back together
  • Kurt Gardella
    Website design consultant, specializing in ‘Wordpress’ (open source) and other easily maintained content management systems for website owners desiring training to control and maintain content on their site. Kurt also offers college level earthbuilding/adobe courses through the internet via NNMC’s distance education system.
  • Building Green
    (Publishers of Environmental Building News) We are an independent company committed to providing accurate, unbiased, and timely information designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the environmental performance, and reduce the adverse impacts, of buildings. We offer both print and electronic resources to help you design and build construction projects from a whole-systems perspective and take an integrated design approach that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes economic performance.
  • The Marshalltown Company
    Focusing on quality and commitment to excellence for over 100 years, the Marshalltown Company has grown to become one of the world’s largest manufacturers of masonry and related hand tools.
  • Bioshield Paint
    We at BioShield wholeheartedly live, breathe and believe in green living. So it’s natural to us that inherent in all the products we create are the same deep commitments we live by. To protect our children. Our families. Our community. Our earth and all her inhabitants.
  • Campoamor Architects
    Extraordinary design-based architectural firm based in San Francisco. Check out the very beautiful artist’s studio they design in Abuquiu!
  • One Earth Design
     ONE EARTH DESIGN specializes in high performance Green Buildings with a special focus on creative design. Latest projects are oriented along the German Passiv House Standard which is Europe’s most advanced energy standard slashing the energy consumed by building by 90%. This tremendous decrease in consumption results in substantial savings for the owner and is one of the most effective means available to clients curbing global warming.
    ONE EARTH DESIGN specializes in super insulated envelopes and thermal mass inside the building. Compressed Earth Block (CEB), Adobe, mud plasters are the green materials of choice and Bau- Biology principles grant an un surpassed indoor air quality (IAQ). Our projects pay homage to the intriguing beauty of the Spanish and Pueblo style as well as developing new contemporary expressions of a highly energy efficient Architecture.
  • Taos Homes (Diane Enright, Realtor)
  • Southwest Solaradobe School and Adobebuilder.com
    Your portal to Adobe Homes, Rammed Earth Homes, Green Building, Pressed Block, Adobe Houses, and Passive Solar Homes. Twenty-eight years ago, Southwest Solaradobe (SWSA) classes began. The first was held in Peralta, New Mexico in 1978. Since that time, SWSA has conducted classes every year around the Southwest and in Latin America. SWSA has supported USAID with adobe-building assistance in Honduras and delivered presentations at the University of Costa Rica in San José. SWSA is active with the Earthbuilders’ Guild towards the formation of better Earthbuilding codes and publishes Adobe Builder books about practical Earthbuilding.
  • New Mexico CultureNet
    The mission of New Mexico CultureNet is to promote the understanding and appreciation of the diverse cultures of New Mexico by connecting people, ideas and resources. Their Programs include Educational Outreach, Web portals and related information services, and educational films.
  • Dachverband Lehm e.V.
    The “Dachverband Lehm e.V.” was established in Germany in 1992 as an association to promote the culture of building with earth and to represent all those interested or working in the field. Today we are the internationally recognised representative in Germany for clay and earth building. Our work in establishing technical building regulations, the “Lehmbau Regeln”, and our vocational training programme “Specialist for Building with Earth”, recognised by the Chamber of Trade and Commerce, are exemplary in Germany. At a time in which environmental responsibility is becoming increasingly important, conservation of resources and environmentally sound construction methods are the new watchwords. Today there is a demand for building materials which require little energy for their production, which are always recyclable and hygienically safe, and which also offer scope for creative design – modern building materials such as earth.
  • Earthbuilding Association of New Zealand
    Generous sponsorship gesture from our earth building colleagues on the other side of the planet.
  • Soledad Canyon Earth Builders
    Las Cruces, New Mexico 88005
    We are known for our unique rammed earth homes. Rammed earth is a “cousin” to adobe. Throughout the world rammed earth wall construction dates back to ancient times. In the United States a house built in 1556 in Saint Augustine, Florida is still in use today. We’d like to show you our work. We’d appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about the similarities and the differences between rammed earth, adobe and our 10″ frame construction. We’ve been building “Uniquely New Mexican” custom homes since 1983.
  • Foxfire Construction
    Pagosa Springs, CO. 81147
    Foxfire has been building beautiful, energy-efficient homes since 1976, using ancient earth-building arts such as adobe, cob, earthblock, and straw-bale construction, as well as passive solar applications and design. David is passionate about building self-sustaining, “off grid” earthen homes.

We are grateful to the following In-Kind Contributors:

The Abiquiu Post

The Coronado Family

Mark Chalom - Architect

Designer-Builder Magazine

Five Magazine

Harmony Farms

Tracy McBride

Tracy Mitchell

Stephanie Rosolek

Amy Pilling

Ginna Sloane Design

Stoneware Artifacts - pottery by Barbara Campbell

Laurie Tumer - photography

Corporate make-up and Fiscal Sponsors:

At this time, we are an entirely volunteer organization incorporated in the state of NM filing for a 501c3 status. Registration dues and fees toward the AASW are not considered tax exempt. All funds raised go toward the operating costs of the events. We are collaborating with the following non-profit organizations in our pursuit of grants and public funds in roles of fiscal sponsors:

Northern New Mexico College

Our major sponsor Northern New Mexico College (http://www.nnmc.edu), also known as The El Rito Heritage Center, is the host of past adobe conferences and the provider of our volunteer student and faculty body. It is the home of the Adobe and Southwestern Construction Program, an important asset to the communities of Rio Arriba County providing technical instruction on the fundamental masonry techniques of historic and modern adobe building.

The El Rito Public Library (http://www.elritolibrary.org) An adobe structure built in the 1930s, the El Rito Public Library is our fiscal non-profit organization. It was restored with adobe plaster in 2004 and is the future home for all AASW archives. Tax-exempt donations must be made out to: The Adobe Association of the Southwest and mailed to:

P.O. Box 5
182 Placitas Road El Rito, NM 87530
Attn: Christine Trujillo

A portion of this donation will go to the El Rito Library.

The Adobe Alliance (http://www.adobealliance.org) The Adobe Alliance of Presidio, Texas, is a non-profit specializing in adobe architectural design and construction. Founder Simone Swan, student of Hassan Fathy of Egypt, was honored with the 2005 award from AASW for excellence in adobe design. Tax-exempt donations must be made out to: The Adobe Association of the Southwest and mailed to:

P.O. Box 1915 One Casa Piedra Road Presidio, Texas 79845
Attn: Simone Swan

A portion of this donation will go to the Adobe Alliance.


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