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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.
But by all means have the meeting whenever the
organizers feel is best.
Love,
Andre
----- Original Message -----
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
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
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