Amid what detainees say is a clampdown in Dilley, TX, including seizures of kids' drawings and crayons, Christian Hinojosa stuffed letters in her jacket to hide them from guards. She told @micarosenberg.bsky.social and me her story. We published the letters today.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
Which means you can make batteries from straw.
#strawbuilding.
carpentry apprentices learning to build straw modules
I am a straw builder because it's fun and 1000% worth the effort.
The future is right here and it's comfy and regenerative.
I will share my knowledge about building passive house modules and retrofit #strawhouse panels on the 1. December. It's free. You can do this. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
Straw against the Machine.
things that kill mass quantities of trees:
climate change. insects. disease. wildfires.
things that do not:
infill housing
build urban homes. tall, and narrow.
plant more trees.
Straw modules with line finish from a workshop at biwena.de
Load bearing straw module modell at amaco.org
Straw insulation retrofit by schelfbauhuette.de bales are fitted between straw anchors directly on an old bituminous roof and trimmed with a lawn mower. Then a wood fibre comes on top and a vented metal roof
Let's revolt.
If we want to meet climate targets, the new world will be built from #renewable things, the old will be improved with them. It is not the new miracle concrete only made in one place, sold at a high price. It's #climate tech that liberates everywhere.
Elon Musk's Grok AI, just now.
I had to personally confirm the meme for myself.
This is real.
Canada got a reprieve from the tariffs, but the issue hasn't gone away. We should be building with local low-carbon materials that are grown, not mined.
lloydalter.substack.com/p/for-green-...
CARTOON OF THE DAY
i talk w/ a lot of folks about why they can't have stunning little districts like this one in reykjavik by henning larsen
point access blocks (4-6 stories)
thin buildings set to street
prioritize places for people & nature, not cars
mix of uses
mix of types/tenures
henninglarsen.com/projects/kri...
Spot on.
Ecococon wall modules with sone data, like 120min Fire Resistance at a density of 110kg/m3 and passive house level of insulation.
Seems counterintuitive to talk about #strawbuilding while the climate arsonists in the offices are setting the world on fire?
Brace yourself for a reality check. Straw panel from ecococon.eu
This area features a higher density than most of 60/70ies concrete outskirt mass housing development sins here. With much more livability. Yes, there is a street in this picture, it's just that this part of the city is not designed around Cars. Bremen, Germany
“1984” thrives at Twitter; this is the directive from Mr Absolute Free Speech:
Merry Chrysler 🎅🏼
Sheffield is building medium density, mixed used development like no where else in Britain.
Embodied carbon emission bars shown for wood fiber (blue, storage of Carbon) and mineral wool (yellow, Emission). Without burning wood fiber at the end of life, 50 years.
Global warming potential: 🟦Wood fiber vs 🟨Mineral wool, same insulation value compared.
Without burning it at end of life. Burning natural materials is commonly assumed in Life Cycle Analysis. LCA. Fair?
www.dena.de/fileadmin/de...
Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
Wednesday 20th, 1200 (GMT)
I’ll be with the Straw Bale Building UK Board discussing:
‘Straw As A Sustainable Insulation Material in UK Construction’
Join us & register here: emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
#strawbuilding #biobased #construction
