[GSBN] [Gsbn] Important GSBN News

Mon Mar 30 16:59:29 UTC 2020

I concur with Nehemiah. I would be willing to contribute.

Mark

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:55 AM Nehemiah Stone <
nehemiah at stoneenergyassc.com> wrote:

> Bill,
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> If you start a go-fund-me page, I would put $50 in to help the cause, and
> I am sure that many others would too.
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> Best,
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> Nehemiah
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> *Stone Energy Associates*
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> “There is infinite hope, only not for us.” Franz Kafka
> “There is no hope, except for us.” Jonathon Franzen
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> *From:* GSBN <gsbn-bounces at lists.sustainablesources.com> *On Behalf Of *Bill
> Christensen
> *Sent:* Friday, March 27, 2020 7:55 PM
> *To:* David Arkin, AIA <david at arkintilt.com>
> *Cc:* gsbn at lists.sustainablesources.com
> *Subject:* Re: [GSBN] [Gsbn] Important GSBN News
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> Hi all,
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> The Straw Bale Registry server started giving me problems just last
> week... it is currently offline, and since we're under "stay at home"
> orders here in Austin, TX, it'll probably be next week at the earliest,
> possibly the week after that before I can address the problem.  The
> Registry is the only thing on that server.
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> The Registry server and the software that runs the Registry are both
> pretty old.  I've been wanting to completely overhaul it and expand the
> scope for years, but I don't have any funding to do that - We received some
> funding to build it initially (shout out to Catherine Wanek), but there's
> been pretty much nothing ever since.
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>
>
> I have the data from the Registry downloaded of course.  I suspect it'll
> take a fair bit of work to make it usable. I also suspect that the contact
> info for a fair number of the listed buildings is waaaay out of date as
> we've done nothing to remind people to update their listings for a very
> long time. But we do have location info, if someone wanted to follow up on
> that.
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> You can see some of the data by going to
> http://web.archive.org/web/20190904143620/http://sbregistry.sustainablesources.com/search.straw
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20190904143620/http:/sbregistry.sustainablesources.com/search.straw>.
> They didn't archive all the way down in many cases, and of course they
> could only see the info which is publicly visible.  A lot of SB people are
> pretty adamant about their privacy and we took pains to insure that we
> could collect data about their SBs without making it public except in a
> general aggregate form.
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> Remember also that some years into this project, State Farm decided to use
> the Registry to identify and deny insurance to SB homes - the exact
> opposite of our intent.  That resulted in further restrictions on what
> identifying info we were able and willing to share.  I'm pretty sure that
> occurred prior to the oldest data on archive.org (2011).
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> On 3/27/20 8:55 PM, David Arkin, AIA wrote:
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> Hello Bill / GSBN and Sustainable Sources:
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> Hope this finds you well, in these times in particular.
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> I was looking for the Straw Bale Registry and the link provided by Google
> wouldn’t open … curious if it now has a new address as well, or otherwise?
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> One of our members has a project idea to query the registry for their
> insurance and finance experience, and ideally the information gathered is
> made available to others who might be struggling with one or both of these,
> both potential homeowners as well as many current ones located in
> fire-prone areas in particular.
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> Would be please to hear your thoughts on the survey project, and whether
> it could be added to the database or just solicited separately.
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> Be well, stay kind,
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> David / CASBA
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> On Jan 22, 2020, at 9:22 PM, Bill Christensen <
> billc at sustainablesources.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone!
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> I have a couple of important news items:
>
> 1) GSBN has moved to a new server, and *the address has changed.*  Please
> be sure that you use the address "*gsbn at lists.sustainablesources.com
> <gsbn at lists.sustainablesources.com>*" (we added the "lists." part to the
> previous address) in all future emails.  I may be able to get the old
> address to forward over to the new, but it'll be best if you just use the
> new address.
>
> We were offline for a while in the fall due to software issues, and I'll
> be forwarding the two emails the list received during our downtime to the
> list as soon as I'm done with this one.
>
> 2) I now have time to put together something I've wanted to do for a long
> time: an online video meeting.  We can use Zoom or GoToMeeting - I'm open
> to suggestions - and talk about what is going on in the world of Straw,
> Earth, and Sustainable Building.
>
> The idea would be to have quarterly or monthly video meetups, record them,
> and post them to YouTube or similar.
>
> The first one would probably just be a round-table type free for all, but
> later ones could center on a particular topic or a presentation by one of
> our esteemed contributors.
>
> I'm thinking that the first meeting could be sometime in February. Let's
> discuss dates and times and, if anyone is particularly familiar with
> various technologies, that too.
>
> --
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> Bill Christensen
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> Bill Christensen
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