Cob: RE: Natural Disinfectants for animals and humans

[Russell Theodore Holzinger]

Get some Lechenya Meera. (a lichen from Siberia)
I cant find the manufacturers web site anymore but do a search for it on
google and you will find a few online merchants that will tell you all about
it and ship it to you.  Four of the products to look at are TOTAL SOLUTIONS
2000, SEALANT SOLUTION 2001, AQUA SEALER, and Antifungal Caulk 2001(Clean
Room Solution)

LECHENYA MEERA TOTAL SOLUTIONS 2000
After more than 8 years of research using the biocidal properties of plant
lichens, Biotech has synergized a potent additive for use in water, or
detergents to enhance the cidal properties of common household products.
Contents: Lechenya Meera, Siberian Usnea Lichen, Hamamelis virginiana
extract, stabilized oxygen, water, enzymes and amino acids derived
microbially from naturally occurring bacteria and fungi.


LECHENYA MEERA SEALANT SOLUTION 2001
As a biocide concentrate that can be injected into all interior and exterior
paints, primers, sealants and grouts. Blends easily with all standard latex
and oil base paint formulations. Will not alter color, durability or drying.
Hard surfaces painted with coating containing Sealant Solution 2001 may
resist biofilm, mold and mildew, and will increase the stability and body of
the paint. Sealant Solution 2001 addresses disease in the environment by
fortifying the paints, sealants and treatments used on walls, ceilings,
floors, air ducts, back splashes, shower linings, hospitals, kitchens, etc

LECHENYA MEERA AQUA SEALER
Mildew Resistant Waterproofing Aqua Sealer is a high performance mildew
resistant water based Bonder as well as Primer/Sealer which provides
exceptional adhesion to "Mold and Mildew Prone" or "Hard to Paint" surfaces
and can solve many painting problems. Aqua Sealer can be used for both
exterior and interior applications, and can be used with Oil/Alkyd, Latex,
Urethane, Epoxy and Lacquer topcoats.

I don't sell it but I use it to clean my body and my house.  (It works
against Anthrax, Small Pox, and HIV but they cant say that on the web site.)

Russell Theodore Holzinger
Principal Designer
AVID Design Studio
Phone: (503) 961-9010
IAM at AvidDesignStudio.com <mailto:IAM at AvidDesignStudio.com>



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-coblist at deatech.com [mailto:owner-coblist at deatech.com]On
Behalf Of Amanda Peck
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:02 AM
To: coblist at deatech.com; essa at csf.colorado.edu
Subject: Cob: cob and others: animal shelter?


My turn to be naive and idealistic.

I'm on the board of what we hope will become the county-wide no-kill animal
shelter.  It may not be too early to start thinking of ways we can use
natural building for us.  We don't have land yet, nowhere close to enough
money to build even if that is donated.

But the requirements may be suitable only for concrete, huge drains, near
fire-hose supplies of water.  I am looking for ideas--links welcome--to do
something different.

Must be easy-to-clean.

Moreover MUST be easy to disinfect.  Nothing worse than presiding over a
raging epidemic that surfaces again after a new lot of (mostly dogs here)
animals arrives.  And we could use a small surgery.   There are traveling
spay-neuter programs, but they need  a location to work in.  Surgery for
dogs and cats is NOT aseptic, visit your local vet!, but it does need to be
pretty well antiseptic, like a field hospital.

Must be proof against digging, chewing, marking with urine, don't need a
gorgeous building that's falling apart after a year.  On the other hand,
concrete floors work a lot better if they have those huge rubber mats on
them

We really want to build with volunteers (local when possible) because
staffing later on is going to be mostly volunteer unless somebody comes up
with a whopping endowment.  So natural building ideas--cob, straw-bale,
compressed earth blocks, sound like a really good idea to get people
involved.

Any ideas?

There are two kinds of shelters:  Big, that house unadoptable and retired
animals for the rest of their lives--like the not-too-far away elephant
shelter, cat retirement homes and so on.  Small, that take in animals
(quarantine, take care of the most immediate medical problems), distribute
to foster care and eventual adoption.  The former is lovely and
romantic--and needed.  The latter, if the network is in place, is less
disruptive to the neighbors, better for the adoptable animals.  We'd prefer
the small one.

Sorry, people, if, like me, you get two of these messages.  But I'd like
ideas from as wide an area as possible.

Amanda.

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