<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;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>Welcome, Benedikt!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are building an online library, the BuildWell Source, you can see it here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.buildwellsource.org" class="">https://www.buildwellsource.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is primarily in English (though we have many documents in Spanish), and covers all aspects of natural building. If you get your own effort up and online, let’s be sure to link.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hey, and all you GSBN folks, please load up whatever good resources you have. We’re still rebuilding after an ugly hack took us down last year.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 9, 2018, at 11:34 PM, Benedikt Kaesberg <<a href="mailto:beka@fasba.de" class="">beka@fasba.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi to the GSBN community,<br class=""><br class="">my name is Benedikt Kaesberg, and thanks to Dirk Scharmer I had an invitation to join this group.<br class="">I'm a carpenter, worked in 2004 for the first time with straw bales, and became over the years I got familiar with researching and networking in matters of building with straw. Since 2017 I'm working in a European project UP STRAW aiming at "upscaling the use of straw in the building sector".<br class="">Among other activities we are about to create a common and translated database on building with straw. It will contain several hundreds of documents, and important ones that are not yet available in English will be translated. The database will be eventually publicly accessible. I wonder whether other people around the world do or did something like that, too? Do you know?<br class=""><br class="">Best regards<br class=""><br class="">Benedikt<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Benedikt Kaesberg<br class="">Brigittenstraße 1<br class="">33098 Paderborn<br class=""><br class="">GERMANY<br class=""><br class="">Tel. +49 171 998 7171<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Gsbn mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Gsbn@sustainablesources.com" class="">Gsbn@sustainablesources.com</a><br class="">http://sustainablesources.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/gsbn<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>