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Cob: ARE OUR NATURAL BUILDING IDEAS CAST IN STONE??? (or, the STONEvs. cast earth controversy continues)Charmaine R Taylor tms at northcoast.comWed Oct 24 14:00:20 CDT 2001
Let's all lighten up, OK? There are enough really scarey issues now to get riled up about... Ocean PeaceMaking.org ++++++++++++++++++++ Ocean-I think where you got into trouble ( funny for a peacemaker .org guy huh?) was in the "shouting" to use real stone when the conversation was NOT about that at all. We are discussing how to pour and form a counter or table by hand. If you want to add to that, that's fine. "BUT, where is the cement or lime for the "natural" alternatives coming from anyway? You know it: huge energy-gulping factories hundreds or thousands of miles away..." ++++++++++++ Not true, most cement and lime are mined and produced regionally, hence the wide variety of high cal and dolomitic limes avail and lime uses far less energy commercially to produce, with the added benefit of reabsorbing carbon dioxide from the air, which mfged.cement does not. I repeat we are not defending use of materials, we are discussing how to hand-make some items. I have some bowls, holding water, simply made from clay and lime and paper...paper holding water? yes, and I can sculpt what ever shape I want, by hand, no tools needed, which feels very good to me on a creative level .I will attempt a counter top too, in myown time, with no heavy lifting, messy cutting or loud drills.... that feels good on many levels. I think most people on the cob list feel the same way. Charmaine Taylor/ Taylor Publishing http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com -------------- next part -------------- <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Let's all lighten up, OK? There are enough really scarey issues now <br>to get riled up about... <br>Ocean <br> PeaceMaking.org <br>++++++++++++++++++++ <br>Ocean-I think where you got into trouble ( funny for a peacemaker .org guy huh?) was in the "shouting" to use real stone when the conversation was NOT about that at all. <p>We are discussing how to pour and form a counter or table by hand. If you want to add to that, that's fine. <p>"BUT, where is the cement or lime for the "natural" <br>alternatives coming from anyway? You know it: huge energy-gulping <br>factories hundreds or thousands of miles away..." <br>++++++++++++ <br>Not true, most cement and lime are mined and produced regionally, hence the wide variety of high cal and dolomitic limes avail and lime uses far less energy commercially to produce, with the added benefit of <u>reabsorbing carbon dioxide </u>from the air, which mfged.cement does not. <p>I repeat we are not defending use of materials, we are discussing how to hand-make some items. <p>I have some bowls, holding water, simply made from clay and lime and paper...paper holding water? yes, and I can sculpt what ever shape I want, by hand, no tools needed, which feels very good to me on a creative level .I will attempt a counter top too, in myown time, with no heavy lifting, messy cutting or loud drills.... that feels good on many levels. I think most people on the cob list feel the same way. <p>Charmaine Taylor/ Taylor Publishing <br><A HREF="http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com">http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com</A> <br> <br> </html>
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