- Lower heating and cooling costs through highly insulated efficient walls
- Reduced cost of heating and cooling equipment because smaller units can provide for the smaller needs of strawbale homes
- Strawbale walls go up easily and fast
- Friends and neighbors can help build each others homes and needed community buildings
- Puts home building back in the hands of the owner and the community
- Strawbale buildings are exceptionally stable with less potential for damage from hurricanes, earthquakes and other acts of nature
- Uses an annually renewable product
- Reduces air pollution from farmers burning
- Reduces the amount of lumber needed in homes to preserve forest resources
- Reduces the size of lumber needed so materials can come from managed forests
- Non-Toxic materials, so no off-gassing or harmful chemicals
- No hazardous building materials to dispose of
- Provides an additional income for farmers from what is a waste by-product of grain production
- Builds communities through building together
- Sheathed in 1-1.5 inches of stucco, strawbale walls have greater fire resistance than normal drywall
- Straw bale walls by themselves provide a silent, comfortable home
- No need for additional soundproofing materials
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