Fw: [Cob] RE: Sustainability

[Amanda Peck]

It all depends on the Habitat chapter that is doing the building.  I've seen 
some pictures from, I think the tsunami areas, that looked worse than the 
corrugated iron buildings the military used to build in Micronesia.  But 
some Habitat houses stood up better than most in Hurricane Andrew, 
conventional ones that had no overhangs for the wind to grab and use to peel 
the roof, some that were ferrocement.  Unpaid workers, not trying to save 
time by cutting corners may have helped too.


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Joe R. DuPont wrote (snipped)
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.