permaculture

[CK Valois/B Brummitt <lilacmn@eot.com>]

dawn 
aka gardenbetty wrote:

...The house will be strawbale, but beyond that, I am trying to assess the
best
plastering, roofing, flooring, insulating materials, etc. I am
familiar/experienced with many types of sustainable building materials and
am
pretty sure what is least impact, but I need hard numbers to produce a
convincing publication to give to visitors and regulators.

Thanks again in advance for your assistance. (--and the assistance many of
you
have already offered:)
--
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Dawn:
Here is information about the Strawbale list that I've been on for a couple
of years now...
Some of the best minds in the business are on it...Including Bill and Athena
Steen (authors of The Straw Bale House) and Mark Piepkorn (the current
editor of The Last Straw magazine).
You may wish to just read the digest and sit back for awhile...

If you'd prefer a once-or-twice-a-day digest version of the 
Straw Bale Mailing List rather than receiving each message 
individually, send an e-mail message to
        < Majordomo@crest.org >
that says *exactly* this in the body of the message:
       
        subscribe strawbale-digest

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"Yeah, okay, but, like, how do I get the FAQ, man?"

Simple simple simple!  Send an e-mail to
        < Majordomo@crest.org >
with the following command in the body of the message (leave 
the subject line blank):
        info strawbale

It'll be sent to you via return e-mail in mere seconds.

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Hope this information is of benefit to you, or someone else on Permaculture
list...the website at the bottom of our signature block shows how we built
Cheryl's studio out of strawbales about 6 years ago or so.

Bruce


      Cheryl Valois and Bruce Brummitt
                 <lilacmn@eot.com>
                    46N46' X 95W20'
<http://www.zianet.com/blackrange/br_pages/brummitt.html>