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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: [strawbale] Another
Introduction
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