There are no building codes for most types of natural building. The one material that does have a fair amount of testing and data is straw bale, thanks to California rice growers. "So the rice growers had a very, very strong economic incentive to support the development of straw bale building so they'd have a market for their straw bales which is great," explains natural building expert Michael G. Smith, "but in the absence of that, there's nobody trying to sell dirt, there's no industry out there pushing the sale of clay soil or stones or natural sticks or wood chips. So the question becomes who's going to get behind and really fund the very expensive research that needs to happen to make these things more accessible to people wanting to build to code."
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