<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello GSBN:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First and foremost, and without further delay, we invite you to order your copy of ‘Straw Bale Building Details - An Illustrated Guide for Design and Construction’ by CASBA:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" size="5" class=""><a href="https://www.newsociety.com/Books/S/Straw-Bale-Building-Details" class="">https://www.newsociety.com/Books/S/Straw-Bale-Building-Details</a> </font></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><font size="5" class="">Use the code <b class="">Strawbale25</b> at <a class="" dir="ltr" target="_blank" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsociety.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3o3Ss8nH3wBv-oyRBhTTni5LP2DrRc6HZrANdghHYzoADngwt0Mhstgco&h=AT1ygh_9rPU0EMPsHNx-rSCG-zCl0LzSAx1I7lz45SbbsAGc1I1pxRvOZCUnFsasSKYtrSZzfFO3HkWGijpAn1Y-V92S_sHZ1QBdJTMEMwoty1XjdZswqUO_0fSD6YDo3HJg4LM" rel="nofollow noopener" data-lynx-mode="hover" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">newsociety.com</a> to get 25% off the book until May 31st. </font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">* * * * *</span></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Recently a website ran a conversation with two of our authors, managing editor and builder Jim Reiland and architect Bob Theis - the conversation offers some wonderful insights into the book:</div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><a href="https://permies.com/t/113261/Jim-Reiland-Bob-Theis-authors" class="">https://permies.com/t/113261/Jim-Reiland-Bob-Theis-authors</a> </font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s one gem of insight, from Jim: "<span style="background-color: rgb(241, 232, 214);" class="">The content of the book was drawn from the collective experience</span><span style="background-color: rgb(241, 232, 214);" class=""> of over sixty contributors who have worked on hundreds, if not thousands of straw bale buildings over the past twenty plus years. We all volunteered our time and expertise to this project. Bob and I are among the twenty principal contributors who played a somewhat larger role in writing chapters, creating details and illustrations, and organizing and editing the project. CASBA is a non-profit organization devoted to furthering the practice of straw building by facilitating the exchange of current information and practical experience, promoting and conducting research, and making that body of knowledge available to working professionals and the public at large. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(241, 232, 214);" class="">All proceeds earned from book sales are earmarked to support research and development of straw as a building material."</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">* * * * *</span><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Lastly, Craig White, Chris Magwood, Massey Burke and I will be presenting our collective efforts toward Taking Carbon Storing Renewable Materials To Scale in a webinar for the <a href="http://embodiedcarbonnetwork.org" class="">Embodied Carbon Network</a> on June 21st. Our <a href="http://embodiedcarbonnetwork.org/focus-groups/renewable-materials/" class="">Renewable Materials Focus Group</a> is hoping to share examples of larger scale, carbon storing buildings—primarily those built of straw and wood, but also hemp or bamboo—as a part of our presentation. If you have designed or built, or know of good examples, please send one or two photos and a brief outline of the project (building name, use, size, location, architect, builder, and any carbon data) to me <a href="mailto:david@arkintilt.com" class="">david@arkintilt.com</a> and Craig White <a href="mailto:craig.white@modcell.com" class="">craig.white@modcell.com</a> Thank you!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have several good examples, but as one of our goals is to show the mainstream building world that large carbon storing buildings are already being done, we can’t have too many!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our Focus Group has been contributing to Architecture 2030’s <a href="https://materialspalette.org" class="">Carbon Smart Materials Palette</a> and we are grateful to Chris Magwood for sharing so much of his thesis study toward this effort, and toward creating comparisons with the High (negative) Impact Materials.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks (and don’t forget to order your Detail Book today!), </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David Arkin / CASBA</div><div class="">
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Please Support my 2019 Climate Ride California Central Coast, June 12-16, with a fundraising goal of $3,000 to support Carbon Smart Materials including Straw</font><br class=""><font size="3" class=""><a href="https://support.climateride.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=6586" class="">https://support.climateride.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=6586</a></font><br class=""><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Thank you!</font><br class=""><br class=""><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">David Arkin, AIA, Architect</font><br class=""><font size="3" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; 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