<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'><font size="3">A bit more that is related to Laura Bartels' recent thread here...and more than that...<br>
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Looking at the Facebook page of the person who posted the Italian article led me to this Facebook page... <br>
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<div><font size="3"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/APPROCHE-Paille-Technique-du-GREB/506021846125735" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>pages/APPROCHE-Paille-<wbr>Technique-du-GREB/<wbr>506021846125735</a><br>
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<font size="3">The cover photo is of a wall system that has flat framing on
each side of the bales and what looks like OSB on each side, and looking at this photo from a sequence on the website indicates that it's a slipforming technique for applying plaster. <br>
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<div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=508248749236378&set=pb.506021846125735.-2207520000.1368029501.&type=3&theater" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>photo.php?fbid=<wbr>508248749236378&set=pb.<wbr>506021846125735.-2207520000.<wbr>1368029501.&type=3&theater</a>
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And that led me to this site, making me wonder if members of GSBN already are familar with this and I've just been out of the loop too much... The Association for the Promotion and Construction of Ecological Houses of Straw<a href="http://www.approchepaille.fr" target="_blank"><font color="black"> </font>http://www.approchepaille.fr</a><br>
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David - still stuck in the world of codes - Eisenberg<br>
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From: David Eisenberg <strawnet@aol.com><br>
To: Global Straw Building Network <GSBN@sustainablesources.com><br>
Sent: Wed, May 8, 2013 9:17 am<br>
Subject: [GSBN] Something of interest from Italy<br>
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<div>Came across this just now and thought I'd share it:<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.filodipaglia.com/filo-di-paglia-alla-fiera-cibi-ditalia-milano/">http://www.filodipaglia.com/filo-di-paglia-alla-fiera-cibi-ditalia-milano/</a><br>
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Here's an online translation into English:<br>
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<div style="margin-left:40px"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Wire</span> <span class="">Straw</span> <span class="">Fair</span> <span class="">"</span><span>Food</span> <span class="">of Italy",</span> <span class="">Milan</span></span><br>
<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Posted on</span> <span class="">May 8,</span> <span class="">2013 in</span> <span class="">news</span></span><br>
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<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Saturday 4</span> <span class="">and</span> <span class="">Sunday, May 5, 2013</span> <span class="">Wire</span> <span class="">Straw</span> <span class="">was present at the</span> <span class="">event "</span><span class="">Food</span> <span class="">of Italy</span><span>" held</span> <span class="">in the Castello</span> <span class="">Sforzesco</span> <span class="">in Milan.</span> <span class="">A special thanks</span> <span class="">to</span> <span class="">then</span> <span class="">Coldiretti</span> <span class="">Lombardy</span><span>, who invited us</span> <span class="">to participate in this</span> <span class="">important</span> <span class="">national event dedicated</span> <span class="">to food,</span> <span class="">the environment and the</span> <span class="">territory</span><span class="">, aimed at promoting</span> <span class="">initiatives</span> <span class="">to raise the quality</span> <span class="">of life with</span> <span class="">a focus on</span> <span class="">sustainability.</span> <span class="">Sara</span> <span class="">and Francesca</span> <span class="">have set up</span> <span class="">and managed</span> <span class="">the stand of</span> <span class="">straw</span><span>, illustrating the</span> <span class="">activities</span> <span class="">of the study,</span> <span class="">presenting our plans</span> <span class="">and our</span> <span class="">current and future initiatives</span><span>,</span> <span class="">and are organizing</span> <span class="">two small</span> <span class="">workshop</span> <span class="">within which</span> <span class="">we have illustrated</span> <span class="">concretely</span> <span class="">how to build</span> <span class="">a wall in</span> <span class="">straw,</span> <span class="">from the division of</span> <span class="">bales</span> <span class="">of straw,</span> <span class="">plastering</span><span>.</span> <span class="">Goodbye</span> <span class="">Milan</span><span>!</span></span><br>
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That last line makes me wonder if the actual translation is "Well, there goes the neighborhood!" :-><br>
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David not so Italian Eisenberg<br>
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