<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is a really amazing step for all of us in helping to make this world a better place! Many thanks to everyone who has put effort into making these changes to the building codes, I know this was an incredibly long rough road and your perseverance is greatly appreciated.<div><br></div><div>Congratulations…..I hope your hangover from the celebration is not too bad today!!</div><div><br></div><div>Dodson<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Apr 29, 2013, at 8:38 PM, Jacob Deva Racusin <<a href="mailto:buildnatural@googlemail.com">buildnatural@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I am so, so happy for you, for us, for the building community in general - what a tremendous validation of your tremendous efforts. Huzzah!<br><br>Jacob<br><br>Jacob Deva Racusin<br>New Frameworks Natural Building, LLC<br>P.O. Box 15, Montgomery, VT 05470<br>(802) 782-7783 (c)<br>(802) 326-2209 (h)<br><a href="http://www.newframeworks.com">www.newframeworks.com</a><br>jacob@newframeworks.com<br><br>On 4/29/2013 9:42 PM, martin hammer wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hello all and Greetings from Dallas, Texas,<br><br>I'm happy to report that our proposed appendix on Strawbale Construction in<br>the International Residential Code was approved today by the ICC Committee<br>by a 9-1 vote!!!<br><br>Thank you to all who contributed. More later, but now David Eisenberg,<br>Laura Bartels, Mark Aschheim and I are going to hit the town for a<br>celebratory dinner.<br><br>And icing on the cake was approval of an appendix on Light Straw-Clay<br>Construction Paula Baker-Laporte and I co-authored . . .<br><br>Yes!!<br><br>Martin Hammer<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>GSBN mailing list<br>GSBN@sustainablesources.com<br>http://sustainablesources.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/GSBN<br><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>GSBN mailing list<br>GSBN@sustainablesources.com<br>http://sustainablesources.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/GSBN<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>