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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#146116">Hi Folks,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#146116">Getting my feet wet on GSBN postings and would like to get the word out on the 2008 COSBA Natural Building Conference.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#146116">Any spreading of the word you all can do would be greatly appreciated.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#146116"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#146116">John</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#146116"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">Greetings to all Straw Bale Enthusiasts,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(20, 97, 22); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">Hopefully you've received information about the 7th Annual COSBA </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">Natural Building Conference in Durango on June 14 & 15 by now.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">Our conference title this year is "A Systems Approach to the Perfect </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">Dwelling". Now we know that we cannot possibly tell you how to build </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">the "perfect" dwelling. What's perfect is what's perfect for you. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">So focus on the word "approach". Our philosophy is that with each </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">house, with each bit of information we absorb, with every minute of </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">experience we can have under our belt -- we can move closer and </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">closer to that Omega point called perfection. And through studying </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">the various systems involved with natural home building, from </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">foundations to roofing materials, we can integrate them into a better </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">home than if we had regarded each system as independent of the other.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(20, 97, 22); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">We hope you will join us mid-June for this comprehensive construction </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">systems study. Whether you're an architect, builder, or prospective </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">owner/builder ... heck, even if you just want to build the perfect </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">chicken coop, you're all invited and most welcome at the conference.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(20, 97, 22); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(20, 97, 22); min-height: 14px; ">Visti <a href="http://www.strawbaleconference.com">http://www.strawbaleconference.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(20, 97, 22); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">Thanks so much for your time and hard disk space.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(20, 97, 22); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#146116" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #146116">John</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#146116"><br></font></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>john rehorn</div><div><a href="mailto:rehorn@frontier.net">rehorn@frontier.net</a></div><div><a href="http://www.armofthespiral.com">http://www.armofthespiral.com</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></body></html>