[GSBN] A Climate Ride Challenge - Post Ride Update

[M. Oehlmann]

Hello all and congretulations for all the inspiring news...

About 3 years ago I was figuring out if it might be possible to declare
straw-bale housing (in this case with big bales) as CO2 sink, as the
natural materials like straw, wood and clay compensate the CO2-consuming
material like electric equipment, tyles etc. more than needed. UN FCCC and
UN ECE-CLRTAP however do not consider wood and straw as a CO2 storage. I
talked with the responsable manager of the Oeko-Institut in Darmstadt who
is advisor for the German government on this issue and he said, he would
not accept wood and straw as compensation.

Of course there are window frames of wood who are not that durable, but all
depends on the quality of the wood, its protection and the design. Most of
the wood used in a house never will touch moisture and as such the straw.

Anybody more news on this topic, possibly within the last three years
insights on this have changed?

Greetings from the Netherlands at the moment,

Martin Oehlmann




2013/5/25 David Arkin <david at arkintilt.com>

> Hi GSBN:
>
> Our CASBA mini-bale pal 'Baley' and I rode the Xtracycle (±65 lbs.
> (29.5kg)) 320 miles (515 km), raising awareness and a bit of hay-ll!
>
> See our rig below (he's wearing a music player hat) and more fun pics on
> my Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/david.arkintilt?ref=tn_tnmn
>
> Team CASBA raised at least $6000, much of it going to support the code
> effort.  However, we won't see those funds until the end of the year, so if
> anyone else is feeling inspired to support this effort please make your
> contribution directly to CASBA:
> http://www.strawbuilding.org/sbweb/content/donate
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>
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>
> Please Support my 2013 CA Climate Ride (320 mile bicycle ride from Eureka
> to San Francisco, May 19-23, with a fundraising goal of $3,000 to support
> Straw-Bale outreach)
>
> http://bike.climateride.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=2034
> Thank you!
>
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