[GSBN] How many strawbale buildings in the USA?

[Frank Tettemer]

The Ontario Natural Building Coalition (previously OSBBC) has a registry 
of 135 houses.
During the period from 2002 to 2010, we were pretty diligent about 
canvassing for registrants, offering a free life-time membership in the 
OSBBC. Lately, we've had fewer volunteer registrants, as we haven't been 
calling out for them.
This sounds similar to your experiences, Bill Christensen, is it not?

My slightly-educated guess is that there are over 300 straw bale homes 
in this province.
A very prolific plasterer that I know, (named Tina), has said that she 
has worked on over 140 different homes, in the past fifteen years.
Some on the board of the ONBC believe that there are closer to 350 SB homes.

Ontario probably has the most SB homes per Province, with British 
Colombia having perhaps as nearly as many. (But maybe Habib Gonzalez 
could quit making me laugh with his crazy Old Man Jokes long enough to 
count the SB homes out in his province, Eh? Habib?)

Nova Scotia has a count, made by Kim Thompson, and last I heard, there 
were over two dozen in that small island paradise. The remainder of 
Canada is unknown to me, but that in itself suggests that there are not 
a sizable number in those other remaining provinces, or we'd hear about 
them.

All in all, if i was a gambling man, I'd bet fewer that 1,000 SB homes 
exist in Canada, including all those hermit reclusives.
And if I seriously had to pick a number ... Well then ...
I'd pick 800 for all of Canada.

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Frank Tettemer
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