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Cob House This ancient technology doesn’t contribute to deforestation, pollution or mining, nor depend on manufactured materials or power tools. Cob is nontoxic and completely recyclable, which is important in this era of environmental degradation, dwindling natural resources and chemical contaminants. Cob is one of many methods for building with raw earth, the world’s commonest construction material. It surpasses related techniques such as adobe, rammed earth pise, and compressed earth bricks both in ease of construction and freedom of design. Unlike its counterpart adobe, co