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Building With Whole Trees

Trisha Terwilliger — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:13:38 GMT

An article of interest from yesterday's NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/garden/05tree.html?pagewanted=2&em Check out the slideshow. Trisha

Re: Fwd: Re: [Greenbuilding] Fwd: Eco Tip of the Week - plants filte

Mark Piepkorn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:31:15 GMT

... Quacko.

Re: chemstar lime?

Athena & Bill Steen — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:56:44 GMT

We use it all the time as that is all that is available out here. Like I always say, it's rarely the lime that fails, but poor application and bad curing. Bill

Re: chemstar lime?

Chris Green — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:51:03 GMT

... I was wondering if anyone has used Chemstar type s hydrated lime.< I haven't, but I did find this pdf about this particular product, which might answer

chemstar lime?

Adam wilson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:07:44 GMT

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has used Chemstar type s hydrated lime. ACE sells it in town and they recommend it as a soil amendment (very bad, what I always

Re: Tyre foundation

Darcy Goodrich — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:34:54 GMT

I think my brief addition to the discussion was anything BUT a fair representation of what Robert Merrill designed. I didn't mean to come across that

Fwd: Re: [Greenbuilding] Fwd: Eco Tip of the Week - plants filter ai

RT — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:50:55 GMT

Hmmm... Now, how can I use this information to best advantage ? (The bit about Duck Foo'd being in Barcelona, that is. Not the stuff about vegetation myths. )

Re: Tyre foundation

Derek Roff — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:07:30 GMT

... I'm not sure which two worlds are being referred to above, but I'm pretty sure that I don't want to live in one of them. I got bored with pounding dirt

Re: Tyre foundation

Darcy Goodrich — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:21:21 GMT

Robert Merrill of Washington has designed and built homes with such a foundation. 3-4 courses of earth-rammed tires topped with a straw bale walled structure.

Re: Tyre foundation

RT — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:15:44 GMT

On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:57:44 -0500, Jure Po¸ar ... Jure; As with tyres that are mounted onto an automobile, the tyres themselves have

Re: SB building in the Ottawa/Nepean area

Alan Faulkner — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:08:06 GMT

I could not locate Rob Thom in the phone book. Any other suggestions? Alan ... construction.< I would suggest this list's founder, and one of our gurus, the

Re: SB building in the Ottawa/Nepean area

Chris Green — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:39:33 GMT

... construction.< I would suggest this list's founder, and one of our gurus, the inimitable Rob Tom, AKA RT. He lives in Kanata. ... like to discuss it with

Re: sharing good news-I got a mortgage!

Chris Green — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:34:38 GMT

... I am VERY happy to report that I have secured a construction loan for my straw bale (non-load bearing design) home in southern New Hampshire.

sharing good news-I got a mortgage!

green_frog@... — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:07:28 GMT

Congratulations! We were lucky up here in Nelson, BC. A couple of mortgage brokers are just recently considering strawbale homes to be the same risk as

SB building in the Ottawa/Nepean area

Alan Faulkner — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:06:17 GMT

Who in the Ottawa area would be good to contact re Strawbale construction. I have been considering it for a long time and would like to discuss it with