[GSBN] Strawbale houses can fly!

[Joyce Coppinger]

Hi Catherine,

Thanks for the update about the sb ecohouse. I¹ll add a short note about the
web site and video to TLS#60 which I¹m working on now. Would you want to
send in an article with photos for TLS#61 (this will be the Women in SB & NB
issue) which is in the early stage of development? I plan to begin work in
this issue in earnest in April.

Joyce
Joyce
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Joyce Coppinger
Managing Editor/Publisher
The Last Straw, the international journal
of strawbale and natural building
PO Box 22706, Lincoln NE 68542-2706
402.483.5135, fax 402.483.5161
<thelaststraw at thelaststraw.org>
www.thelaststraw.org







on 3/18/09 7:50 PM, BuildersWithoutBorders at
mail at builderswithoutborders.org wrote:

> Hi All - 
> Thanks for all the useful input on ground source heat systems.
> I have a short strawbale fire story I will post soon.
> 
> Meanwhile....there's a new installment of the BWB strawbale ecohouse story
> (that was built last May for an exhibition on sustainability at the US Botanic
> Garden, in the shadow of the US Capitol).
> 
> They liked it, they really liked it, and kept it around an extra 4 1/2 months.
> When we visited in January for the Inauguration, we were told they (the USBG)
> wished they had known how beautiful it would turn out, because they would have
> tried to figure out how to keep it. (It literally takes an act of congress to
> build something new on the National Mall.....)
> 
> Last week with the help of a big crane, the 12x16 loadbearing strawbale
> cottage, minus the roof, (weight 14,500 pounds), was lifted up and set down
> onto a trailer, where it was transported about 25 miles to its new home in
> Maryland.  I invite you to visit :  http://www.breathworkstudio.blogspot.com/
> to see some photos and video of the move (by Eric Hempstead, a member of our
> building team).
> 
> For photos of the construction process and the finished building in its
> original setting, visit www.builderswithoutborders.org
> <http://www.builderswithoutborders.org/>   and
> http://picasaweb.google.com/CatherineWanek
> 
> happy solstice,
> Catherine Wanek
> 
> Co-director
> Builders Without Borders
> <mail at builderswithoutborders.org>
> www.builderswithoutborders.org <http://www.builderswithoutborders.org/>
> 575-895-5400
> 
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