<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Art, dear Strawbalers<div><br></div><div>The European Straw Bale Gathering (ESBG) will be a good place to meet in Europe, it will be in Łódź, Poland, the last 10 days of August 2013.</div><div><div><font color="#000000">Organised by <font>Cohabitat, dedicated for building open-source ecosystems for future of human habitats. </font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font>Together with the society of sb-professionals (OSBN) they invite to the ESBG 2013. More info coming soon.</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font>But it will be in English...</font></font></div><div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><b><font color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><img alt="Obraz w treści 1" width="420" height="197" src="cid:ii_13dd9b4c3718daf6"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></div></div><div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>all the best</div><div>Herbert Gruber</div><div>-----------------</div><div>asbn - austrian strawbale network</div><div>3720 Ravelsbach, Baierdorf 6</div><div>Tel. 02958-83640</div><div><a href="mailto:asbn@baubiologie.at">asbn@baubiologie.at</a></div><div><a href="http://www.baubiologie.at">www.baubiologie.at</a></div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>Am 22.04.2013 um 07:25 schrieb Oasis Design:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hi, Natural builders--<br> <br> My family and I will be working, studying and traveling in Europe from mid July for a year...interested to hear suggestions from this group of interesting people about interesting natural building sites, people, places, organic farms, communities and events to visit, opportunities to give <a href="http://oasisdesign.net/education/index.htm#topic">presentations</a>, etc. <br> Research-wise I'm interested in examples of people doing the simplest, lowest-impact possible systems with the best execution; everything from transport bikes to water treatment to cob building to sustainability policy.<br> <br> Here's our draft itinerary:<br> <ul> <li>London (don't know anyone or anything--interested in staying downtown, maybe walking in the country)<br> </li> <li>Oslo-Bergen-Fjord country (contacts welcome)<br> </li> <li><a href="http://www.svanholm.dk/index.php?id=73">Svanholm</a>, Denmark (got good contacts in DK but more welcome)<br> </li> <li><a href="http://directory.ic.org/5657/Lebensgarten_Steyerberg">Lebensgarten </a>Steyerberg Germany </li> <li>Switzerland<br> </li> <li>Stromboli, Italy</li> <li>Aquacheta Valle communities, Italy</li> <li>Cinque Tierra, Italy</li> <li><a href="http://www.torri-superiore.org/index.php?s=home&p=benvenuto&l=en">Torre Superiore</a>, Italy</li> <li><a href="http://www.thatroundhouse.info/matavenero.htm">Matavenero</a>, Spain</li> <li>Turkey?</li> </ul> I speak Spanish and Danish, and at one point was fluent in German, Italian and Swiss German.<br> <br> Please reply off-list unless you think it will be of general interest, thanks...if there is interest I'll post a collated list of attractions. If the "best swimming holes in the world" list gleaned at the Texas Natural Building Colloquium was any indication, natural builders are great explorers...<br> <br> Yours, <br> <br> Art<br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>GSBN mailing list<br><a href="mailto:GSBN@sustainablesources.com">GSBN@sustainablesources.com</a><br>http://sustainablesources.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/GSBN<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>