Hi Ken,
I was in contact a while ago with Bill Seavey, http://bajanet.com/featured_articles/three_little_pigs.htm He has some experience and can probably give you references on where to find more material. Hakan At 05:40 PM 12/12/2002 -0800, you wrote: >This is a bit OT, but I don't know where else to address an audience >with the potential interest level. > >I'm planning to build a new house in a rural area, and I'd like to do >it in an ecologically sound way. The plan at present is 1700 sq.ft., >straw bale walls, minimal usage of wood and concrete, etc etc. >I've run across a measure of environmental impact called "embodied >energy", which tries to include not only the energy required to >manufacture the basic material, but also such factors as the energy >needed to transport the raw and finished materials, the amount of >labor needed to install (ie, transporting n workers to a site), as well >as the lifetime of the end result. > >Unfortunately, this index (imprecise at best) DOESN'T typically >seem to address two issues of particular concern to me -- carbon >burden (atmospheric), and sustainability (how long will supplies >of the material last at current consumption rates). Maybe that's >because the bulk of the work was done in the 70's, when such info >was less significant or not yet emphasized. > >Anyway, does anyone know of RECENT research addressing these >issues as they pertain to home construction methods? Steel roofs >vs comp shingle -- concrete slab floor vs wooden joists -- solid >timber beams vs "engineered wood products", etc. ? -K > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
