Cob: Whole Earth Festival; Davis, CA May 9,10, 11 - seeking exhibitors etc.

[Tobin Newburgh]

Howdy, I've been pretty innactive on this list for quite a while now, so 
I'll reintroduce myself - I'm Toby, a structural engineering student at 
UC Davis hoping to do research with cob in the next couple of years.  
I am also the appropriate technology coordinator for the Whole Earth 
Festival in Davis, CA.  WEF is a free 3 day event over Mother's day 
weekend that draws about 30,000 participants.  We have 3 stages, 
workshop spaces, education tables, vegetarian food an intensive 
waste management team (approx 95% diversion & 5000 reusable 
dishes), etc.  This year's speaker's line-up includes Julia "Butterfly" 
Hill, Utah Philips, Sue Maloney, Darryl Cherney, Robert Hass, Ram 
Dass, Wavy Gravy, Jose Arguelles, Dineh Grandmothers and much 
more!

So, back to cob...  The reason that I am emailing the list is that I seem 
to be falling a little short in providing the public with good 
demos/workshops/speakers/tables, etc. regarding my favorite focus - 
cob!  I am unfortunately too busy organizing people to actually put 
together a booth of my own, so I want to extend a huge invitation out 
there that anyone who has a business, group, organization, literature 
or otherwise wants to help educate the particpants of WEF about Cob 
(or other natural building techniques) to please get in contact with 
me.  I want to work with you to get across your message.  More info 
about the Festival can be found at http://wef.ucdavis.edu

Incidentally, I can't imagine that responses regarding WEF would be 
as facinating to the whole group (or as relevent to cob) as the Horse 
Hair thread, so please email me back directly at 
tcnewburgh at ucdavis.edu

Namaste

toby