[papercreters] Re: LET'S RESTART THE PAPERCRETE group into the NEW YEAR??

I am cheered to see so many response from people I know, who have worked on PC a long time.. EO and Kim, and newbies.. 

lets BEGIN  again toward the new year, and help the newly interested and re-encourage the experienced.

Since i am retired i am willing to post all the resources and book chapters, as well as links to full  info

and there is data on DL  format via the system under  Dropbox.

Mmike mccain created  very simply  paper chopping system NOT the barrel mixer and less costly.

if there is interest I can post pics of the design.

Last on Dec 15 2009 I sold www.dirtcheapbuilder.com to a new owner in MT, Tom  Expel a stop builder.

DCB is still running with new titles, but is NOT papercerete focused.

I kept my Papercrete.com  business, and all publications I created as well as the old, out of print materials from the 1900s.

and now it exists only on FB, and is inactive. I'd RATHER be active here to get people started than run a business again.

If people want specific books/DVDs see Tom Epel's www.dirtcheapbuilder.com

I've always held "PAPERCRETE IS AN IDEA"  inventive people use what they HAVE! - for more  20 years I have seen it also include dry seaweed, pumice, styrofoam waste, pulverized rice hulls (RHA), chopped fishing line- polypropylene fibers and waste,sawdust, Redwood sawdust (my favorite! already chopped, wont burn easily, won't mold and available on many areas of the west coast.)  Other ORGANIC fibers have been used - HEMP bast,  dry brush & weeds, chopped straw, as well as non organic (the poly fibers and ground up waste).

 As well as Latex paint, Fly Ash, hydrated lime, brick dust, and pozzolanic materials all have been tried to some level of success.

SO MUCH IS ALREADY KNOWN LET'S GET IT OUT THERE AGAIN TO THOSE WHO WANT TO USE IT!

Here are some links, MOST should work, I have not checked..but they give a wide range of connecting interests.

And there ARE and WERE COMMERCIAL building and experimental groups,  individuals, and hundreds of youtube videos still available.

Alternative-low cost building email group: organic_architecture@yahoogroups.com 

www.livinginpaper.com <<< Papercrete building-extensive site

www.earthbagbuilding.com Kelly Hart's earthbag site

www.davidsheen.com << Amazing cob & earth building
www.daycreek.com <<< CORDWOOD-papercrete 

www.middlepath.au.com << EARTHEN floor

http://cobprojects.info/index.htm <<< COB resources 

www.okokok.org << Earthbag homes

www.hollowtop.com - Stone wall, Slipform building 

www.earthhouse.info <<< Earthen/Domes

www.ferrocement.com << Cement-dome-FERRO
http://photos.itsa.info/ << Domes and ferro homes

http://loveforlife.com.au/node/5917 << Woodland cordwood hobbit home in Wales
http://mha-net.org <<< Masonry Stove Builders- best site on fireplaces and stoves

www.solarcooking.org <<< Solar-off grid

www.strawbuilding.org <<< California Strawbale resource group

www.glassford.com.au <<< Strawbale builder in AUSTRALIA

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Charmaine Visnesky Taylor 

back of beyond PacNW

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