[GSBN] Nomination

[Ben]

I happily second Sarah's nomination.

Ben Obregon

Mark Piepkorn wrote:
> I'd like to nominate Sarah Machtey www.sageearth.com as the point 
> person for Natural Builders Northeast www.nbne.org/ and the 
> Brattleboro Area Natural-building Group www.potkettleblack.com/bang/ . 
> The project shown on the front page of her website also appears in 
> Adam & Katy's new natural finishes book, though sadly unattributed. 
> (Catherine also took some photos of that one, but I don't remember if 
> she's had the opportunity to use them in publication yet.) Over the 
> past decade Sarah's become a veteran of several natural building 
> colloquiua, conferences, gatherings, and workshops (most recently the 
> natural building practitioner's gathering in Santa Barbara a couple 
> weeks ago), has been involved with strawbale in Pakistan (in 
> Pakistan), earthen architecture conservation in Mali (in Mali), and 
> stuff like that. I forward her every message that gets posted here 
> anyway, so not needing to do that would make my life a little simpler 
> as well.
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 09:05 PM 11/3/2008, Bill Christensen wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Having met Bob Gough at the Natural Building Colloquium Texas last 
>> year, when I found his subscription request in the GSBN queue I was 
>> pretty sure he'd have no problem passing muster, so I just approved 
>> him.  If anyone has problems with that, meet Bob in the cob stomping 
>> pit for a wrassling match. ;-)  We'll even leave the sand and straw 
>> out for the first round.
>>
>> Joking aside, Bob is working with native americans and is involved in 
>> Native Energy (and probably other good stuff I don't remember).  He's 
>> definitely one of us.
>>
>> Several others are currently in the subscription queue as well, and I 
>> don't know any of them.  They may just be "drive by" subscribers - 
>> folks who read the archives and wanted to join as a result.  Are any 
>> of these familiar to any of you?
>>
>> Replies should be offlist if your comments aren't something the whole 
>> group needs to hear.
>>
>> shiva.b at partner.samsung.com
>> shivakumar
>>
>> seed4peace at yahoo.com
>> nora kasanicka
>>
>> spenceredwards03 at yahoo.com
>> spencer edwards
>>
>> jesse.kando at gmail.com
>> Jesse Kando
>
>
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