In Amsterdam Brick we cited a house using the famous Amsterdam School of Style brick detailing techniques.

Now Fast Company gives us a story about a team of students in Indonesia who invented EcoFaeBrick to win a $25,000 prize from University of California Berkeley’s Global Social Venture Competition.

What is EcoFaeBrick? Believe it or not construction bricks formed from cow dung. Not only that, they claim the material is 20% lighter than clay brick, but still 20% stronger.

Additional benefits of EcoFaeBrick are said to be CO2 reductions and reduction of land damage from clay excavation, plus it’s renewable (as long as cows keeping doing what they do best). Read post in Fast Company.