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🇪🇺 Educator, Speaker, Builder, Activist. Regenerative construction 🌳🌾🥦♻️. Fixing mistakes and bad habits in the built environment. Independent #Bauwende construction revolution advocacy, english & german word salad, enjoy! https://linktr.ee/michaelburchert
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Workshop fun, pre loading a load-bearing 'Nebraska style' #strawhouse with a palette of earth bricks. (Oldest and still inhabited houses >100 years in the US). Window frames are floating until the wall is end-compressed. More under #howtostrawbalebuilding if you show interest. Workshops: biwena.de

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People tell me nobody wants to look at climate curves anymore, yet here we are!!! Please enjoy our interactive journey through 485 million years of climate history and dive into the fascinating and important work of paleoclimate scientists. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...

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Workshop fun, pre loading a load-bearing 'Nebraska style' #strawhouse with a palette of earth bricks. (Oldest and still inhabited houses >100 years in the US). Window frames are floating until the wall is end-compressed. More under #howtostrawbalebuilding if you show interest. Workshops: biwena.de

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Please, no to asbestos! Some examples of asbestos: - Asbestos table protectors - Building paper - Hot pipe lagging - Interior decoration. Salamander was a fireproof Anaglypta, and originally another competitor to Lincrusta All of these items may still be found, if only in an old box in the garage

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I useful reminder that European energy from renewables won't be interrupted by geopolitics.

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It’s hot! 🥵 Living in a straw bale home in this weather would be crazy, right? Wrong! Straw changes its moisture content in sync with its environment. As it does this, there is heat exchange at a cellular level within the fabric of the straw itself! It keeps you cool in summer & warm in winter! 👇

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And we thought comedy died under Trump's first term.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

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What's the state of modernisation and adaptation in the built environment? Answer:

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Der NDR berichtet neuerdings oft einseitig positiv über Landwirtschaft. Manche führen diesen Trend auf den Druck durch die Bauernproteste zurück.

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Weekend pictures, of course rapidly renewable material related. Because it's literally everywhere. Let's build.

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#Strawhouse #Strawbuilding prefabrication in the Netherlands by prefab strobouw, fast and easy. www.prefabstrobouw.nl

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#LoveIsLove #BeYourself

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Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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I always wonder if you; like me learned in school about how bad it was in the Middle Ages in cities. What they didn't tell me is that today we don't just flush away feces, bad enough. Now we also poison everything. Back then, there were severe penalties for poisoning wells. And today?

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Heute wäre eine gute Gelegenheit klimaneutral konventionelle Baustoffe, Efuels, Wasserstoff zu produzieren. Wenn es die Anlagen im Land der Ingenieur*innen geben würde, außer in der großspurigen Politik & in den Papieren der erfolgreichen fossilen Lobbyarbeit. Bestrafen wir lieber die Produzenten.

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It's almost 2025, this year the 1.5 degree mark was exceeded for the first time and natural fiber 'insulation' is only available in the pet section of the DIY store. That has to change.

submitted 185 days ago • 3 comments

17 dwellings added on top of an existing structure made of reused steel, wooden floors, #strawInsulation and a brick curtain wall. Is #strawbuilding becoming normal in France? Parages Architecture parages-architectes.eu/Diderot Photos: Galerie Blanche

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I always wonder if you; like me learned in school about how bad it was in the Middle Ages in cities. What they didn't tell me is that today we don't just flush away feces, bad enough. Now we also poison everything. Back then, there were severe penalties for poisoning wells. And today?

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#Strawhouse #Strawbuilding prefabrication in the Netherlands by prefab strobouw, fast and easy. www.prefabstrobouw.nl

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1. straw, timber, earth modules 2. straw harvest with energy return of investment >1 3. straw, mass timber insitu #strawbuilding 4. 17 reasons why to utilize straw for construction: #SDGs

submitted 185 days ago • 2 comments

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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Hot topic, enjoy the discussion.

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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...

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Is there any argument left against the better material palette. Besides silly outdated regulations that can be changed if you wanted to and availability that you can influence by decentralized distribution and production?

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Woah, this turned out nice - rice straw retrofitted building as student and seasonal worker housing. BC architects & studies #strawbuilding #strawhouse #wrapping #lowtech #renewablematerials Photo: Yohan Hubert

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Oh look, it's #reposthappyhour again. Like, repost (comments or links help) and I'll look into your feed and try repost mainly building transformation related posts.

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#Strawbuilding is not a competition but a by-product of our thousands of years long fantastic baking culture. #reposthappyhour

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Oh look, it's #reposthappyhour again. Like, repost (comments or links help) and I'll look into your feed and try repost mainly building transformation related posts.

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I wish I had paid more attention in my French lessons at school. Seems like a good opportunity to see what's about to take off globally in straw construction. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Green Steal. One of the largest steel producers chickens out of #greensteel after massive subsidies. Bad because decarb strategy for construction is based on fantasy scenarios such as green steel, concrete, just to avoid having to switch to #renewablematerials with new sustainable value chains.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments