<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, Rob--<div><br></div><div>We bought our wood cement blocks from a company in Canada, as did several others in Portland. Those purchases helped pave the way for a local startup to begin making similar blocks here. The first houses were all on home tours, in news stories and generally promoted recycled content materials, to help create awareness and a market for a new type of product. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike O'Brien </div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Feb 24, 2012, at 1:37 PM, RT wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:08:20 -0500, Douglas E Lamb <<a href="mailto:douglaslamb@columbus.rr.com">douglaslamb@columbus.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Is this 100 mile movement forbadding exotic type foods and architectural<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">elements from being consumed<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">or just discouraging there consumption and relying upon local consumerism as<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a means of economy?<br></blockquote><br>Although I was advised to ignore Douglas, since he's the only one talking right now, I pretty much *have* to listen.<br><br>I don't know about others' reasons but many of us have been using the "materials from within a 300 km radius of the building site" criteria for small commercial as well as residential buildings for the same reason that obese/out-of-shape people go on diets to restrict/reduce their consumption of food and beverages -- it's a matter of health.<br><br>Minimising the radius of consumption as well as the volume of consumption for buildings helps to minimise embodied-energy and hence, environmental impact of the building.<br><br>One often sees the odd disconnect of people who are building "natural" or Green buildings ostensibly to minimise environmental impact but then turn around and import a special clay or processed lime from another continent to make that building. D'oh!<br><br><br>-- <br>=== * ===<br>Rob Tom<br>Kanata, Ontario, Canada<br><br>< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot c a ><br>(manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply")<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Greenbuilding mailing list<br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br>http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>