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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
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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