Re: [papercreters] Re: Learn all about Sustainability

Greetings,
Habitat for Humanity no longer exists in this part of Texas, Thanks to
Dan Phillips and his Phoenix Connection. He builds homes with 80%
recycled and landfill rescue materials. Never electrical or water
lines, for obvious reasons, but the rest is all recycled. Lots of
youtubes on him.

Bright Blessings,
Garth & Kim Travis
www.TheRoseColoredForest.com
Bedias, Texas

On 8/8/2012 10:38 PM, peddler7122 wrote:
> Sustainability
>
> It should mean the use of a resource that does not deplete it.
>
> Papercrete and Rice Hulls are sustainable.
>
> I spent 15 years salvaging old buildings and saved millions of board
> feet of heart pine, maple flooring , hardwoods , red and white pine,
> Douglas Fir and masonry such as roofing tiles and bricks.
> My experience with people like Habitat for Humanity is that they have a
> blank check to write tax credits to demolishers and the sell the easily
> removable items like clawfoot tubs and pedestal sinks then abandon the
> irreplaceable heart pine to the landfill because they NEVER use recycled
> wood. The guys like me who took down the structures and used pneumatic
> nail pullers and back muscles saved almost ever stick but once the
> goodies were gone paying Habitat for the salvage rights represented an
> increase of 400$ and put us all out of that business.
> The EPA flew me up to Hartford to do a speech on recycling because one
> of the managers saw that money had to be made to make a difference in
> the waste stream. He was the only one it seems. At first I was a big hit
> but then they asked me where I got my grants and I told them I used
> pieces of paper with Grants picture I saved up.
> They were horrified that I had committed the sin of profiteering off
> mother earth and even worse I actually did something.
>
> My experience with people in positions of power who push sustainability
> are only interested in bankrupting America through outrageous energy
> prices and they hate anyone who applies the capitalist system to the
> problem because it is the only one that works. They have no interest in
> the environment , just scaring people out of using so called "fossil
> fuels" and trying to force unworkable alternatives regardless of whether
> we can pay for it or not.
>
> I have personally kept more out of the waste stream than Tuscaloosa
> Alabama in one year and they have a billboard congratulating themselves.
>
> Instead of sustainability why not find out from those who actually do
> something what needs to be done.
> There needs to be a dialoge with the cities giving demolisher's a
> reasonable time period to salvage old buildings.
> More recycle friendly codes to help the reuse of building materials from
> demo sites and things like papercrete .
>
> In Houston there is a historic hotel called the Rice. I sourced 186,00
> square feet, over 6 acres of antique maple flooring which I believe was
> the largest re installation of wood flooring in history.
> We either sourced or resourced and installed 4 other project of over
> 100,000 square feet in Houston, Dallas, and Brooklyn ,New York and
> hundreds of smaller buildings and houses as well as our wholesale business.
> http://downtownhouston.org/guidedetail/post-rice-lofts/
>
>
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