[Cob] cob and The Code

[joe r dupont]

We can at least ask every candidate questions related to our rights to
build our own homes.
In fact if we could workup a series of questions to send these
candidates.
then we can ask them via letters to the editor..You would be surprised as
to how they phone you
from washington when you write that they did not respond to you regarding
an issue.
If we all had a smile letter to send our congressman and senators and
presidental candidates and then one to the newspaper
that they will not respond... and stress our basic rights for
surivival..we might have something..

I saw an article in TIme magazine about what we could do to help the
world   carbon wise.., energy wise. etc.
there was not one mention of HEMP...  as in replacing trees..

If anyone would write a letter to the editor of Time and question that
emmision...I'd love it.


joe  
On Thu, 3 May 2007 03:36:38 -0600 hms.mommy at juno.com writes:
> 
> On Wed, 2 May 2007 21:54:19 -0400 "paul" <dotpaul at paulleblanc.net>
> writes:
> > No, seriously, John, the people you wish to regulate cob are the 
> same
> ones 
> > that annilated teepees and their inhabitants.  If freedom was what 
> they
> 
> > really were about then we would have Indian nations as partners on 
>  the
> 
> > continent of North America.  If freedom was what was really going 
> down
> in 
> > North America we wouldn't be living on stolen land and rooting for 
>  the
> 
> > Redskins on Sundays.
> 
> Paul, I appreciate where you're coming from.  Freedom is not what 
> they
> are really about.  But should we let them reign without opposition?  
> If
> we don't meet them on their own ground, are we not guilty of giving 
> up? 
> The reason they are where they are is that too many people like us
> thought that they could do nothing against so much power.  They'd 
> like us
> to go on thinking that--it's so much easier for them.  Who knows, 
> maybe
> they will triumph in the end.  But if we do nothing, then we have 
> already
> lost.  Let's not give up while we're still alive to make a 
> difference.  
> 
> Yesterday I contacted a structural engineer in Salt Lake City who
> advertises in the local "green businesses" guide.  He said, 
> "Structures
> made of earth are not acceptable in high seismic demand zones such 
> as
> Salt Lake."  You and I know that cob can perform just fine in "high
> seismic demand zones."  What we need to do is put in the time and 
> effort
> to persuade people like him that it can.  It's doable.  
> 
> We are at a strategic window of opportunity right now.  Ecology is 
> being
> brought to the center of public discourse, and cob is around enough 
> that
> many people have heard of it.  There is support for what we are 
> doing;
> many more people would be prepared to take on their own cob projects 
> if
> they just felt reassured that it was safe.  If we put in the time 
> and
> effort to provide that reassurance, we will have influenced the 
> course of
> history.  We can make it happen.  
> 
> Carrie
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