[GSBN] An update on TLS

Thu Nov 6 21:34:54 UTC 2008

An update on TLSHi Joyce,

Could you please let me know how to subscribe to the magazine. If you could send me a form or something that would be good. My new postal address is PO Box 126 Axedale Victoria Australia 3551.

A couple of years back we started a new method of applying the second coat of render which negated the need to hatch the second cote. We now trowel the second cote with a notched trowel which leaves a terrific surface for the final cote to adhere to. 

We have also been trying some natural coatings. The one we are currently using on the inside of the house is made up of powdered pure clay, and cooked rice flower with water added to paint consistency. This is applied over the third coat of render with a sponge. It gives us a beautiful silky smooth absolutely dust free surface which fills any small cracks etc. I would be veery interested to hear your personal feedback on this coating, but respectfully ask that the details of the coating not be publicised at this point.

I look forward to hearing from you again.

Kindest regards

Brian Hodge
Anvill Straw
Building Consultants.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joyce Coppinger 
  To: GSBN 
  Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:18 AM
  Subject: [GSBN] An update on TLS

  An update for you about TLS. 

  After a difficult period from November 2006 through February 2008 when my health problems slowed me down and delayed progress in publishing issues of TLS, I'm glad to report that a great medical team has re-energized me (I'm now a bionic woman) and set me up on a regimen of diet, exercise and medication to treat the diabetes and heart problems they discovered. I am now back working full time and trying very hard to get caught up with publishing TLS issues, and the other projects that I was working on. 

  TLS#59/Sustainable Living will be posted to the TLS web site online order system within the next two weeks or so. Print copies will follow as soon as possible. I'm now working on TLS#60/Details, #61/Women in Strawbale and Natural Building, #62/Putting a Project Together. Contributions of text and images for these issues are welcome! TLS is a reader-written journal, and its content and quality can only be maintained through your help and that of other readers and those throughout the international straw-bale and natural building community.

  Of course, we need to continuously keep our readership numbers at the highest level possible. We rely on those on the GSBN list, our readers, and the straw-bale community to help spread the word about TLS and encourage people to subscribe and purchase back issues and the CD (now available in downloadable PDF format). If you are not a current subscriber, please go to the TLS web site www.thelaststraw.org and sign up now! We need your support. If you are a current subscriber, you will be receiving issues to fulfill your current subscription as soon as  they can be published - and thanks for your support!

  In the past few years there was been an explosion of information on the Internet, from new publications and media content available on the market, and through the growing number of people involved in strawbale and natural building. That's great news and good for the future of strawbale and natural building - but at the same time it does present a challenge to TLS. The other challenge faced by all publications (and nonprofit organizations such as The Green Prairie Foundation for Sustainability under which TLS operates) is the rising costs for production and postal services - and the decline in money available to support our efforts. 

  We have tried to adapt to changing times and conditions. For example, we have added the online ordering system so people around the world can more easily access issues of TLS (#41 through the current issue are available in PDF format at $6 per issue without any costs for shipping/handling - and the PDF of TLS' CD-Rom of issues #1 through #40 is also available for downloading through the online ordering system at $40). We will continue to publish TLS in print format at $8 per issue for subscriptions; shipping/handling costs will be added for back issue orders. 

  We are constantly exploring ways to improve TLS' content, delivery systems, and find cost savings. Hope we can count on you to continue your support, share information and contribute content, and tell others about the journal!

  Joyce
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  Joyce Coppinger, Managing Editor
  The Last Straw journal
  GPFS/TLS, PO Box 22706, Lincoln NE 68542-2706 USA
  402.483.5135, fax 402.483.5161
  <thelaststraw at thelaststraw.org>
  www.thelaststraw.org

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