Re: [strawbale] Another Introduction

["Lars Keller" <lars_keller@hotmail...>]

Dear Jan Martin Bang.

It was very interesting reading your introduction.
I look forward to meeting you. Are you considering partaking in the autumn 
NOL-meeting, which hopefully takes place in Glucksburg, Germany. Ole 
Kristian can most probably offer you a seat...

Many greetings from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Lars Keller


From: "brobyggerskolen" <brobygg@start...>
Reply-To: strawbale-l@eyfa...
To: "Straw Bale" <strawbale-l@eyfa...>
Subject: [strawbale] Another Introduction
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:26:24 +0200

Dear Strawfolks,
It's high time I introduced myself. My name is Jan Martin Bang, I grew up in 
England where I was active in the Cooperative and Trade Union Movements in 
the 70's. I moved to Israel in 1984 and was a kibbutz member for 16 years. 
Since 1993 I worked on environmental projects within the Kibbutz Movement. 
This  took me on extensive travels within the region, teaching Permaculture 
courses and visiting ecovillages in Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus and the 
Palestinian areas. I completed the first modern strawbale building in 
Israel, a tiny toolshed, just 3 X 2 metres (hardly worth it with bales, but 
a good exercise!), and worked closely with Kibbutz Lotan, helping them set 
up a major Permaculture Field School, incorporating a good deal of strawbale 
and adobe work. I have now moved to Solborg Camphill Village in Norway with 
my family, and am part of the teaching team at the Bridge Building School. 
We teach strawbale building, with a major project each year in Eastern 
Europe. Last year we worked on a large house at the Rozkalni Camphill 
Village in Latvia, and this year we will spend nearly two months at Svetlana 
Camphill Village outside St Petersburg in Russia, building a small family 
house for the Steiner School attached to the village. We work closely with 
the Norwegian Strawbale and Mud Building Association, and spend time on a 
number of sites here in Norway also.
In a couple of weeks I am taking my family on a holiday to Ireland, mainly 
to visit Camphill Villages, but would be happy to visit any strawbale 
projects that we come across.
Happy to be part of this list, and it's great to see how strawbales are 
proliferating throughout the region. Best wishes   JAN

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