[GSBN] A Climate Ride Challenge for Straw Building from David Arkin

[David Arkin]

Dear Colleagues, Friends and Straw Bale Enthusiasts Worldwide:

In one week I'll be riding my bicycle 320 miles—from Eureka to San Francisco—on the Climate Ride. 

This past Friday, for the first time in millions of year, over 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide were recorded in our atmosphere.  As many of you know, 350 ppm is the widely recognized sustainable maximum.

If the agricultural crop residues grown each year in the US were sequestered, they'd get us over 1/4 closer to achieving a sustainable level of carbon.

And, of course, if we were to build houses and buildings with this agricultural residue (aka straw), we'd not only sequester this carbon, but we'd create much needed housing, and comfortable efficient housing at that.

I've reached the minimum necessary ($2700) to participate in the Climate Ride, but this year I'm riding for the California Straw Building Association, to support our outreach efforts, emergency housing projects in Pakistan and Haiti, and to fund our efforts to add an appendix chapter on straw bale construction into the International Residential Code, and ultimately the Building Code, and I want to do all I can to support these.  

I'm reaching out to anyone and everyone with the following challenge:  If my fundraising for CASBA reaches $4000, I'll carry a mini bale on the Climate Ride.  If donations hit $7000 (last year we raised $6000), I'll carry that mini bale on a non-motorized Xtracycle.  Get that figure to $10,000 and I'll haul a full 3-string straw bale on it.  At $15,000 I'll carry Martin Hammer, OR David Eisenberg, OR a 3-sting AND a 2-string AND a mini bale.  This challenge is good through the Climate Ride (May 19-23) and I'll upgrade as described above any day of the ride (and keep in mind Day 3, Tuesday May 21, is the Century Day (aka 100 miles).  All donations over $5000 will go toward the code effort.  And as promised earlier, for any donation over $150 I'll thank the donor with a 10th anniversary ATA olive label black long sleeve t-shirt, featuring 10 of Anni's beautiful olive label designs. 

Please donate, please spread the word.  The link to donate is in my signature below.  Together we can do this!  

David

ps:  My sincere gratitude to everyone who has donated so far - Thank You!!!

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Arkin Tilt Architects
Ecological Planning & Design

Please Support my 2013 CA Climate Ride (320 mile bicycle ride from Eureka to San Francisco, May 19-23, with a fundraising goal of $3,000 to support Straw-Bale outreach) 
http://bike.climateride.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=2034
Thank you!

David Arkin, AIA, Architect
LEED Accredited Professional
CA #C22459/NV #5030

1101 8th St. #180, Berkeley, CA  94710
510/528-9830 ext. 2#
www.arkintilt.com

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
— A. J. Muste 



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