<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;">I’ll second anyone who’s going to make the conference rip!<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Aug 26, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Graeme North <<a href="mailto:graeme@ecodesign.co.nz">graeme@ecodesign.co.nz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Everyone<div><br></div><div>I would like to nominate my friend and colleague Min Hall to membership of the list, if someone will second her please. </div><div>I think that she will be a great addition to our collective wisdom. She has designed some really lovely earth and straw buildings. </div><div>Some of you will have met her at Colorado.</div><div><br></div><div>As she says of herself:</div><div><br><i>I am a New Zealand registered architect with over thirty years experience. During that time I have designed a number of earth and straw bale buildings and more recently(2012) completed a Master of Architecture thesis "Earth and Straw Bale: their performance and potential as building materials in New Zealand." I am a member of the Standards New Zealand Committee responsible for our Earth Building Standards and part of a working group looking at providing building consent information for straw bale construction. Most importantly I am on the organising committee for the 2016 International Straw Building Conference to be held in Methven, New Zealand in March 2016 which is going to be a ripper!</i></div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
Graeme<br>Graeme North Architects<br>49 Matthew Road<br>RD1<br>Warkworth </div><div apple-content-edited="true">New Zealand 0981<br>tel/fax +64 (0)9 4259305<br><br><a href="http://www.ecodesign.co.nz/">www.ecodesign.co.nz</a><br><br><br><br>
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<br><div><div>On 26/08/2014, at 4:32 AM, Bill Christensen <<a href="mailto:billc@greenbuilder.com">billc@greenbuilder.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br><br>We had a couple of nominations hanging out there - Brad Young of Fairfield IA and cob builder Kevin McCabe. But due to poor follow through, Brad was on the 'read only' list until just now when I promoted him to contributing member status (WELCOME, Brad! from a fellow 'roo), and Kevin hasn't even joined the 'read only' list. Tom or Graham, are you willing to follow up on Kevin - invite him to the list and then let me know he's signed up.<br><br>The same procedure goes for Enga - ask her to sign up for the list and let me know once she's there. I can then make her a contributing member.<br><br>Sign up is through the link in the footer of every message from the list.<br><br>With all these cobbers and other not-pure-straw people coming in lately, perhaps we should change the name from Global Straw Building Network to Global Sustainable Building Network!<br><br>-- <br>Bill Christensen<br><a href="http://sustainablesources.com/">http://SustainableSources.com</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<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></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></body></html>