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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Rikki,<BR>
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I went to the site but I couldn’t find any photos or illustrations of straw-bale buildings or any other types of “biobuildings” that he/they had done. Maybe people would respond to your nomination if we could see/read a bit more about the design and construction of buildings done.<BR>
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Joyce<BR>
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on 2/9/09 10:01 AM, Rikki Nitzkin at rikkinitzkin@earthlink.net wrote:<BR>
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As requested, I talked to people in Brazil who have experience with straw...if someone seconds this motion André can be invited to join GSBN so we have a new country represented. I do not know this person personally, but I feel that in the case of adding members from countries not yet represented in GSBN this is not so important...<BR>
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Below you can see the response André gave me, as well as his email. The association he works with IPEC (www.ecocentro.org <a href="http://www.ecocentro.org"><http://www.ecocentro.org></a> ) is worth checking out.<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Rikki <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Inicio del mensaje reenviado:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'><B>De: </B>Andre Soares <andre@ecocentro.org><BR>
<B>Fecha: </B>9 de febrero de 2009 14:56:16 GMT+01:00<BR>
<B>Para: </B>rikkinitzkin@earthlink.net<BR>
<B>Asunto: strawbale in Brazil<BR>
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Dear Rikki,<BR>
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Responding to your email to Rebecca Nathan...<BR>
We have built strawbale houses in Australia, Brazil and now Portugal (Boom Festival) over the last 15 years.<BR>
Although in Brazil the best climate for strawbale houses in i the south, our centre (www.ecocentro.org <a href="http://www.ecocentro.org"><http://www.ecocentro.org></a> ) demonstrates the technique too.<BR>
We would be very happy to be part of this network.<BR>
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Thank you for the contact.<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
Andre L. Jaeger Soares<BR>
Ecocentro IPEC - Direção<BR>
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email: andre@ecocentro.org<BR>
ph: 55 62 33312111<BR>
www.ecocentro.org <a href="http://www.ecocentro.org"><http://www.ecocentro.org></a> <BR>
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