[Greenbuilding] Sprouting Floor?

[Frank Cetera]

Any more details?  Would love to know if they figured out why the grass
sprouted.  Has this happened to anyone else?

~Frank Cetera
www.alchemicalnursery.org


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> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:16:51 -0600
> From: "Doug Kalmer" <dougkalmer at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Greenbuilding] earthen floor
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> I know of a local "eco-architect" who built a SB house for a guy, and made
> a earthen floor from local clay. It sprouted grass. Doug
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> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:31:50 -0500
> From: Frank Cetera <alchemicalfranklen at gmail.com>
> To: greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] That Natural Feeling
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> Love your website and your work philosophy Gennaro.  The earthen floor
> photo
> essay was interesting, as I am planning on putting in an earthen floor in
> the kitchen of a home I am renovating this coming summer.
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> I wanted to ask for further examples of how you plan on counteracting the
> need for new building materials when you do your work as you say one of
> your
> goals is zero new materials.
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> How for instance would you insulate an attic?  Or fulfill modern codes
> relating to foundation work or electrical work?  Or is the zero new
> materials idea more of an ideal than a reality?
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> ~ Frank Cetera
> www.alchemicalnursery.org
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