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Hi Martin,<div>Devorah Braus has been involved with SB and peace initiatives in Israel. email: <a href="mailto:deb2000@zahav.net.il">deb2000@zahav.net.il</a></div><div>She was or is part of Lotan Kibbutz <a href="http://www.kibbutzlotan.com/creativeEcology/altBuilding/index.htm">http://www.kibbutzlotan.com/creativeEcology/altBuilding/index.htm</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Lots of pictures and experience.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Best,</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>kim</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div class="MsoNormal"><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Kim Thompson</span></font></b><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "></span></font></b></span></font></span></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font><div class="MsoNormal"><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">"Tradition and modernity are merely two sides of the same coin - and must be dealt with simultaneously. Building cannot be a rigid dogma, but a living, organic, ecological project. It is about continuity, based on memory, common sense and experience and is the foundation of invention." Hasan Uddin Khan</span></font></font></font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><o:p style="font-size: 11px; "></o:p></span></font></span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></span></font></div></span></div><div><br><div><div>On 18-Jan-10, at 4:21 PM, martin oehlmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">.. thanks ej for the reply, they might reflect sending a ship of bales and other building material to organise earth quake proofed housing....</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Syria: Yesterday I got an inquiry to talk for UNEP in Damascus, there is straw in Northern Syria.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anybody knows pictures of straw-bale buildings in the Middle East? I remember that library from Chris Stafford in the United Emerates, yet google does lead to some pictures. Would be great to find some.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best wishes,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Martin Oehlmann</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">GSBN mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:GSBN@greenbuilder.com">GSBN@greenbuilder.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://greenbuilder.com/mailman/listinfo/GSBN">http://greenbuilder.com/mailman/listinfo/GSBN</a></div> </blockquote></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 class="MsoNormal"><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></div></body></html>