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Sorry Andre, I don't really believe its a shame. This would be if there is some personal powerplay involved and I have no indications for that. I believe our Slovenian friends are thoughtful hosts and there must be some reasons. I appreciate their willingness to host that gathering very much. However communcication could be better, I just trust it will be magnificant.
 
Lets try to understand, the character (charme and weakness) of this network is pure volunteer, lets flow with it. Personally since the last gathering in Redfield I had doubts if I could make it for the next gathering also, and guess this will be the case sometimes. Maybe the following gathering could be in The Netherlands or at your promising place. Lets see...
 
Best wishes, Martin
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Van: owner-strawbale@eyfa... [mailto:owner-strawbale@eyfa...]Namens la maison en paille
Verzonden: woensdag 4 juli 2001 22:33
Aan: strawbale-l@eyfa...
Onderwerp: Re: [strawbale] Proposal for introduction

Hi,
 
Personaly I would find it a shame if the European meeting would be in October. Many agreed during the last European meeting that October would best be avoided since it is a month many use to finish up before the winter.
Coralie and I will be in the USA until the 5th of November to follow a workshop with Builders Without Borders and an other with Bill and Athena Steen.
Anyone else comming to the BWB workshop? October 1-10 http://www.builderswithoutborders.org/calendar.htm 
 
But by all means have the meeting whenever the organizers feel is best.
 
Love,
Andre
 
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Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: RE: [strawbale] Proposal for introduction

Dear friends,
 
during the symposium in Illmitz this straw-bale network and TLS has been recommended as medium to communicate. There will be some subscriptions, I hope. The lobby for straw-bale constructions is growing in Austria. Excellent work from ASBN/GRAT/Global 2000/... There are regional subventions for owners up to 50.000 Shilling and the governement supports thoughtfully prepared experimental projects with professional impact.
 
News about time and content of the 3. Int. Straw-Bale Gathering in Europe c.q. Slovenia will be exprected in about 2 weeks, as I understood 5 different people need to finalize the preparations. Time could shift to October. I assume it will be exciting...
 
Excellent idea from Jolien on a "straw-bale galery" and the practical responses. It might be wothwhile to receive the list of participants and announe this network to those, we think might be interested in our personal networks...
 
About "community": The straw-bale network has a sort of plasmatic dynamic with aspects of self-and global realisation. Since 1995 the amount of straw-bale buildings in Europe estimatly increased from 40 to 400, a factor 10. How and why? A special sense of community which Judy Knox is expressing that wonderfully in the "journey of a <straw-bale>-champion" is somehow moving through that network... Try to formulate some sentences...
 
Thanks for the Human Resource Listing!
 
Best wishes from sunny The Hague,
 
Martin
 
 
 
 
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Van: owner-strawbale@eyfa... [mailto:owner-strawbale@eyfa...]Namens Catherine Wanek
Verzonden: dinsdag 3 juli 2001 23:57
Aan: strawbale-l@eyfa...
Onderwerp: Re: [strawbale] Proposal for introduction

Hello Herbert, Jolien, and Simon -- and all the European network,

Jolien, thank you for your kind words about the latest The Last Straw Journal.   We do try to fill it with useful information, and our guest editor, Canadian Chris Magwood dug up a lot of unique technical tips that should prove useful, especially for the "low-tech" builders.

We are working on our next issue, the annual Resource Issue, which has the theme of Community.   We are nearly full with "content." but would welcome an article from Europe on that subject -- Community.   Is there someone who would like to write an article on that subject, representing some specific community or the general European community?    It could be 600 - 700 words, with one picture -- not a huge task, but we would need it within 2 weeks.

Also, it seems like Herbert's offer/idea below a "strawbale-europe net" may develop into a form of community... 
Herbert, with your permission, I would like to turn your email into an announcement, which we will print in this upcoming issue.

Finally, An Offer:  We are interested in promoting SB and natural building in Europe, so will offer a free "Human Resource Listing" to all non-north Americans in this upcoming issue of The Last Straw.  This is basically your name, business, and contact information, plus 30 words that describe your natural building services.  If you represent an organization, we can list that too, together or separately.

Please get this information to us as soon as possible -- The cut off date will be July 16.
Email it to: <thelaststraw@strawhomes...>  or FAX to: 505-895-3326

Best regards,
Catherine Wanek, Editor

The Last Straw Journal
The International Journal of Straw Bale & Natural Building
HC66, Box 119
Hillsboro, NM 88042
(505) 895-5400 /fax (505) 895-3326
<thelaststraw@strawhomes...>
http://www.strawhomes.com


At 08:39 PM 7/3/01 +0200, you wrote:
Dear Simon, Jolien and all the other strawbalers

> Probably the best place to keep this kind of thing would be on the web
> page. We are now FIFTY-SIX people on the list believe it or not, so an
> email with each of our stories in it would be very long...!

Good idea with the webpage. It could also be regional in each country on the
webpages of all networkers. So it is even possible to translate it in
different languages.
I will do it on http://www.baubiologie.at

The idea with the european homepage "strawbale-europe.net" is waiting until
I have the time to translate all articles into english. There are so many
news to add in german that this project needs more time as I thought.

Besides this there are so many different welldone strawbale-homepages in
Europe, that I sometimes think, a united homepage in three languages
(english, german, french) is not necessary.

Probably the better way would be to link to all european SB-sites:
everyone who has a SB homepage and is in this network links to all other
networkers? And all this together is the European site in different
languages and with different contents.

So please write your stories ...

Best wishes from Austria
Herbert Gruber
asbn
austrian strawbale network