a natural builders network listserv is starting why?

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

At 03:19 PM 11/17/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Do folks know that there is already a greenbuilding listserve?
>DH

Hi DH
         the idea of an NBN is not to replace a green building network, 
this is a regional natural building network in Coastal Southern Cal, that 
will gather info on all the natural buildings straw bale, cob, adobe all 
the hybrid combinations and all the systems interconnected to them like 
solar, greywater. Each house will be catalogue on covering 
builder,architect and how the natural systems in the house are working. 
This is meant to discover which natural building systems in our regain work 
over time.
         We are hoping to centralize this information so that folks in our 
regain who want to build natural houses will have a source of houses built 
and what works so they can talk to folks with natural houses to see if this 
is the way they want to go or not. It will be an advocacy group for meeting 
with Planners , banks ,insurance, real estate to educate and show that 
there are natural house in our region already build that work.
         The system we are trying to start in our regain is based on the 
regional organization in SW Colorado  www.smartshelter.com.which has 
function for 6  years. Natural Building is site specific, what works well 
in one area does not mean it will transfer to our area, and the ideal 
natural house for our climatic regain will develop in time and will be a 
hybrid of many types of building which uses all of the interconnecting 
stuff like solar, passive solar, local building materials.
         Like all permaculture designs house building and the materials is 
also needs to be site specific too
and this Natural Building Network is meant to foster this at a regional 
level. coastal Southern California
                                 wes
below is gary duncan's of smartshelter ideas that where used in the 
workshop he presented

Sat workshop will be in four parts: an overview of the natural building 
network, history, intent, funding and functions. Session #2 will go into 
detail with the functions(40 of them)including case studies, advocacy, task 
forces, video production, outreach, etc.. Session #3-forming a natural 
building network for coastal southern California-can you do it and how. 
Session #4- one hour slide show on natural building techniques geared for 
builders/ architects-state of the art working systems and design Extensive 
documentation will be included with the workshop including samples of Smart 
Shelter forms, documents and reports (to work as starter samples for your 
area)


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