<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm with Nememiah about this. I'll gladly chip in and I know many others would do so as well.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 9:55 AM Nehemiah Stone <<a href="mailto:nehemiah@stoneenergyassc.com">nehemiah@stoneenergyassc.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Bill,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">If you start a go-fund-me page, I would put $50 in to help the cause, and I am sure that many others would too.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:rgb(56,86,35)">Stone Energy Associates<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bill Christensen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 27, 2020 7:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> David Arkin, AIA <<a href="mailto:david@arkintilt.com" target="_blank">david@arkintilt.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:gsbn@lists.sustainablesources.com" target="_blank">gsbn@lists.sustainablesources.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [GSBN] [Gsbn] Important GSBN News<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Straw Bale Registry server started giving me problems just last week... it is currently offline, and since we're under "stay at home" orders here in Austin, TX, it'll probably be next week at the earliest, possibly the week after that
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Registry server and the software that runs the Registry are both pretty old. I've been wanting to completely overhaul it and expand the scope for years, but I don't have any funding to do that - We received some funding to build it
initially (shout out to Catherine Wanek), but there's been pretty much nothing ever since.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have the data from the Registry downloaded of course. I suspect it'll take a fair bit of work to make it usable. I also suspect that the contact info for a fair number of the listed buildings is waaaay out of date as we've done nothing
to remind people to update their listings for a very long time. But we do have location info, if someone wanted to follow up on that.
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can see some of the data by going to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190904143620/http:/sbregistry.sustainablesources.com/search.straw" target="_blank">
http://web.archive.org/web/20190904143620/http://sbregistry.sustainablesources.com/search.straw</a>. They didn't archive all the way down in many cases, and of course they could only see the info which is publicly visible. A lot of SB people are pretty adamant
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<p class="MsoNormal">Remember also that some years into this project, State Farm decided to use the Registry to identify and deny insurance to SB homes - the exact opposite of our intent. That resulted in further restrictions on what identifying info we were
able and willing to share. I'm pretty sure that occurred prior to the oldest data on <a href="http://archive.org" target="_blank">archive.org</a> (2011).
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope this finds you well, in these times in particular. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was looking for the Straw Bale Registry and the link provided by Google wouldn’t open … curious if it now has a new address as well, or otherwise? <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of our members has a project idea to query the registry for their insurance and finance experience, and ideally the information gathered is made available to others who might be struggling with one or both of these, both potential homeowners
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would be please to hear your thoughts on the survey project, and whether it could be added to the database or just solicited separately. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">the address has changed</span>.</b> Please be sure that you use the address "<b><span style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"><a href="mailto:gsbn@lists.sustainablesources.com" target="_blank">gsbn@lists.sustainablesources.com</a></span></b>" (we added the "lists."
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<p class="MsoNormal">We were offline for a while in the fall due to software issues, and I'll be forwarding the two emails the list received during our downtime to the list as soon as I'm done with
this one. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2) I now have time to put together something I've wanted to do for a long time: an online video meeting. We can use Zoom or GoToMeeting - I'm open to suggestions - and talk about
what is going on in the world of Straw, Earth, and Sustainable Building. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The idea would be to have quarterly or monthly video meetups, record them, and post them to YouTube or similar.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The first one would probably just be a round-table type free for all, but later ones could center on a particular topic or a presentation by one of our esteemed contributors.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm thinking that the first meeting could be sometime in February. Let's discuss dates and times and, if anyone is particularly familiar with various technologies, that too.
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