I'd love to reinforce (3rds i think) Sarah's nomination. anyone that comes to a natural building colloquium eager to discuss seismic detailing and making building more accessible and adaptable the world over while still producing some of the most beautiful cob sculpting and inlay would be a great asset to this list. and besides she's super high quality and frugal with her input which if it isn't the prerequisite for this list maybe it should be.<br>
<br>seeking intellectual efficiency and emotional sustainability,<br><br>Tim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Mark Piepkorn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@buildinggreen.com">mark@buildinggreen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'd like to nominate Sarah Machtey <a href="http://www.sageearth.com" target="_blank">www.sageearth.com</a> as the point person for Natural Builders Northeast <a href="http://www.nbne.org/" target="_blank">www.nbne.org/</a> and the Brattleboro Area Natural-building Group <a href="http://www.potkettleblack.com/bang/" target="_blank">www.potkettleblack.com/bang/</a> . The project shown on the front page of her website also appears in Adam & Katy's new natural finishes book, though sadly unattributed. (Catherine also took some photos of that one, but I don't remember if she's had the opportunity to use them in publication yet.) Over the past decade Sarah's become a veteran of several natural building colloquiua, conferences, gatherings, and workshops (most recently the natural building practitioner's gathering in Santa Barbara a couple weeks ago), has been involved with strawbale in Pakistan (in Pakistan), earthen architecture conservation in Mali (in Mali), and stuff like that. I forward her every message that gets posted here anyway, so not needing to do that would make my life a little simpler as well.<br>
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At 09:05 PM 11/3/2008, Bill Christensen wrote:<br>
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Hi folks,<br>
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Having met Bob Gough at the Natural Building Colloquium Texas last year, when I found his subscription request in the GSBN queue I was pretty sure he'd have no problem passing muster, so I just approved him. If anyone has problems with that, meet Bob in the cob stomping pit for a wrassling match. ;-) We'll even leave the sand and straw out for the first round.<br>
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Joking aside, Bob is working with native americans and is involved in Native Energy (and probably other good stuff I don't remember). He's definitely one of us.<br>
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Several others are currently in the subscription queue as well, and I don't know any of them. They may just be "drive by" subscribers - folks who read the archives and wanted to join as a result. Are any of these familiar to any of you?<br>
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Replies should be offlist if your comments aren't something the whole group needs to hear.<br>
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<a href="mailto:shiva.b@partner.samsung.com" target="_blank">shiva.b@partner.samsung.com</a><br>
shivakumar<br>
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<a href="mailto:seed4peace@yahoo.com" target="_blank">seed4peace@yahoo.com</a><br>
nora kasanicka<br>
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spencer edwards<br>
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<a href="mailto:jesse.kando@gmail.com" target="_blank">jesse.kando@gmail.com</a><br>
Jesse Kando<br>
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