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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Hi Catherine,<BR>
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Thanks for the update about the sb ecohouse. I’ll add a short note about the web site and video to TLS#60 which I’m working on now. Would you want to send in an article with photos for TLS#61 (this will be the Women in SB & NB issue) which is in the early stage of development? I plan to begin work in this issue in earnest in April.<BR>
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Joyce Coppinger<BR>
Managing Editor/Publisher<BR>
The Last Straw, the international journal<BR>
of strawbale and natural building<BR>
PO Box 22706, Lincoln NE 68542-2706<BR>
402.483.5135, fax 402.483.5161<BR>
<thelaststraw@thelaststraw.org><BR>
www.thelaststraw.org<BR>
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on 3/18/09 7:50 PM, BuildersWithoutBorders at mail@builderswithoutborders.org wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Hi All - <BR>
Thanks for all the useful input on ground source heat systems. <BR>
I have a short strawbale fire story I will post soon.<BR>
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Meanwhile....there's a new installment of the BWB strawbale ecohouse story (that was built last May for an exhibition on sustainability at the US Botanic Garden, in the shadow of the US Capitol).<BR>
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They liked it, they really liked it, and kept it around an extra 4 1/2 months. When we visited in January for the Inauguration, we were told they (the USBG) wished they had known how beautiful it would turn out, because they would have tried to figure out how to keep it. (It literally takes an act of congress to build something new on the National Mall.....)<BR>
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Last week with the help of a big crane, the 12x16 loadbearing strawbale cottage, minus the roof, (weight 14,500 pounds), was lifted up and set down onto a trailer, where it was transported about 25 miles to its new home in Maryland. I invite you to visit : <a href="http://www.breathworkstudio.blogspot.com/">http://www.breathworkstudio.blogspot.com/</a> to see some photos <FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><B>and video</B></FONT> of the move (by Eric Hempstead, a member of our building team).<BR>
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For photos of the construction process and the finished building in its original setting, visit www.builderswithoutborders.org <a href="http://www.builderswithoutborders.org/"><http://www.builderswithoutborders.org/></a> and <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/CatherineWanek">http://picasaweb.google.com/CatherineWanek</a><BR>
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happy solstice,<BR>
Catherine Wanek<BR>
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Co-director<BR>
Builders Without Borders<BR>
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www.builderswithoutborders.org <a href="http://www.builderswithoutborders.org/"><http://www.builderswithoutborders.org/></a> <BR>
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