[GSBN] Nomination

[Mark Piepkorn]

I'd like to nominate Sarah Machtey www.sageearth.com as the point 
person for Natural Builders Northeast www.nbne.org/ and the 
Brattleboro Area Natural-building Group www.potkettleblack.com/bang/ 
. The project shown on the front page of her website also appears in 
Adam & Katy's new natural finishes book, though sadly unattributed. 
(Catherine also took some photos of that one, but I don't remember if 
she's had the opportunity to use them in publication yet.) Over the 
past decade Sarah's become a veteran of several natural building 
colloquiua, conferences, gatherings, and workshops (most recently the 
natural building practitioner's gathering in Santa Barbara a couple 
weeks ago), has been involved with strawbale in Pakistan (in 
Pakistan), earthen architecture conservation in Mali (in Mali), and 
stuff like that. I forward her every message that gets posted here 
anyway, so not needing to do that would make my life a little simpler as well.

Mark


At 09:05 PM 11/3/2008, Bill Christensen wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>Having met Bob Gough at the Natural Building Colloquium Texas last 
>year, when I found his subscription request in the GSBN queue I was 
>pretty sure he'd have no problem passing muster, so I just approved 
>him.  If anyone has problems with that, meet Bob in the cob stomping 
>pit for a wrassling match. ;-)  We'll even leave the sand and straw 
>out for the first round.
>
>Joking aside, Bob is working with native americans and is involved 
>in Native Energy (and probably other good stuff I don't 
>remember).  He's definitely one of us.
>
>Several others are currently in the subscription queue as well, and 
>I don't know any of them.  They may just be "drive by" subscribers - 
>folks who read the archives and wanted to join as a result.  Are any 
>of these familiar to any of you?
>
>Replies should be offlist if your comments aren't something the 
>whole group needs to hear.
>
>shiva.b at partner.samsung.com
>shivakumar
>
>seed4peace at yahoo.com
>nora kasanicka
>
>spenceredwards03 at yahoo.com
>spencer edwards
>
>jesse.kando at gmail.com
>Jesse Kando