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Fw: [Cob] RE: Sustainability Where did she come up with 11, 000 dead in New Orleans.. maybe so.. but they were dead before Katrina..joseph R DuPont joedupont at juno.comMon Oct 24 10:54:17 CDT 2005
The point is that Habitat for Humanity is building exactly the same kind of building that has helped to cause the problems we are in. For every std. Habitate or Humanity house they build they could have built 2 or more COB, Strawbale, papercrete, earthship houses which would have been kinder to the planet. What Habitat for Humanity has done in the United States is help further institutionalize the problem... What is gained... except for more tax revenue . To leave voice mail for Joe DuPont call toll free 877 225 5928 then put in 908 647 5929 and leave a voice message to my e-mail. 6041630 P.O. B ox 189 Gillette,NJ 07933 God Bless our Troops! --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Mary Lou McFarland" <louiethefifth at hotmail.com> To: Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:52:27 -0500 Subject: [Cob] RE: Sustainability Message-ID: <BAY102-F19AB0854CB421767EBEA87B9770 at phx.gbl> I hadn't checked my e-mail for several days and was surprised at the course of events on the sustainability issue. No matter how we feel about a topic, I think it is important that we remember there is a human being on the other end of that posting. Everybody has bad days or haven't been exposed to another side of an issue, but that is no cause for blasting them. This should be a safe place to set forth ideas, projects and ponderings....no egos allowed. If it were such a place than I think we would have a much more lively interaction than we do. So, with that in mind, here's my thought for the day... Things haven't improved much around here and I have given up hope on ever making it to any cob workshops as they are usually on the coasts or Mayne island. I also think that in the current political climate, survival skills are of the utmost importance, especially considering that at last count there were over 11,000 dead in New Orleans. In the event of a tragedy, I know it will be up to me to take care of myself. I am one of the dregs of society and no one is going to save me. With that in mind, I try to suck up as much knowledge as I possibly can. It doesn't matter if it is cob, cordwood or strawbale, etc. because I will have to use what means are at hand. I also think that it is important for other people to have this knowledge, even if they don't use it. for this information to be widespread, we will have to get away from the seminar as the principal method of hands on training. What I would like to see happen is for everyone who knows how to build cob to go 50-100 miles from home and teach a few people how to build and then those few students go 50-100 miles from their home and each one of them teach a few people and on and on until we have networked the country with people who have this rudimentary survival skill. And it isn't enough that we know how to build. It should be common knowledge how to save seed, grow food and preserve it as well as some animal husbandry and how to distill water. I took a business workshop once and one of the big themes was that in order to survive as a business, then you must plan for failure as well as success. I apply it to every facet of my life and it has saved me more than once. There it is , I'm done. and anyone who wants to tear me apart may do so. _______________________________________________ Coblist mailing list Coblist at deatech.com http://www.deatech.com/mailman/listinfo/coblist
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