Dear All,
I agree with Eddy - I also didn't respond
because there is no way I could attend so thought it impertinent to offer
suggestions.
I, of course, wish the ESGB all the very best and
will offer to share my experiences, in the form of an article, when I
have finished my own strawbalehouse.
Brian
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Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 11:08
PM
Subject: Re: [Strawbale] Europe's largest
strawbale building
Hello,
I was
reading your email and find it positive that somewhere somehow the Guardian
site touched a string.
However I
also see your disappointment in the comment you made about the ESBG 2011
survey. ?Only 20 people?.
The reason
I didn?t respond was that I estimated my chances to participate, to the ESBG
2011, rather slim.
Only 100
or so (little more I think) people will have the opportunity
?
More or
less five from each country,
Preference
is given to building professionals (and rightly so).
I do not
criticism the above criteria. I can see the logic given the limited resources
available.
But then
again, having little chance to go, it seemed to me wiser that people that will
be involved define the agenda.
That is
the reason why I didn?t fill out the survey.
If other
straw bale enthusiasts have made the same calculations, you end up with few
people responding.
Regards
Eddy MEYSMAN Achterstraat 219 -
B2 B-2980 Sint Antonius - Zoersel Gsm: 0476-41-10-76 email :
telcontar.meysman@skynet... skype :
telcontareme België
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strawbale-bounces@amper....muni.cz
[mailto:strawbale-bounces@amper....muni.cz] Namens Max Vittrup Jensen Verzonden: donderdag 18 november 2010
22:24 Aan:
strawbale@amper....muni.cz CC: ESBG 11 Onderwerp: Re: [Strawbale] Europe's
largest strawbale building
Thank you Simon for the
link to the Guardian site, and for whoever wrote about Modcell in the
comments. I read it all, wrote a comment with a link to Amazon's 2 story
apartment building and a couple of days after my comment
I got called up by a young lady who worked for an agency which had been
appointed by EU to write an informative summery about SB building for 22.000
decision makers in EU!
The interviewer (a student job)
had also seen the Modcell page, but knew little else. The basic question from
the commission seemed to be; "If this thing can make the Guardian, how come we
don't know about it? And why don't we use SB to reach some of the
environmental Co2 targets, by using it for public buildings, such as
schools?"
I spent 45 minutes on the phone
with her, and in the end she had enough information to write a book(?),
including why SB building is so much more holistic than simply blindly
advocating passive house standards. I believe she would also mention pre-fab
systems in her report. I finalized by giving her the link to Dirk Scharmer and
FASBA, for European research and contact to building companies; this would
also likely be mentioned in her report.
If you (like me) share
the concern that there's only 4 years left
to act (Explanation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_6iTCo5Ci8
), then I hope it the manages to wake up the right bureacrats, building
firms etc., and things start to move in the right
direction...
...This is also the way for those
of you with a topic to present, a workshop to lead, to make us aware that you
exists, and that we need to find time for you.
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1.
Europe's largest strawbale building (Simon
Blackbourn)
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Message:
1 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:34:52 +0000 From: Simon Blackbourn <piemanek@gmail...> Subject: [Strawbale] Europe's
largest strawbale building
Just spotted this in The Guardian, thought
it might be of interest to people on the list:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/02/europe-largest-straw-building
Shame
about many of the ignorant comments, I guess they show there's still
a huge amount to do to convince people of the merits and viability
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