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Once again we find ourselves in that time of year when a handful of individuals manage to spend a lot of other people’s money telling the public why they should be elected to public office. It can be a depressing time to say the least. For the most part, they don’t seem to tell you why they should be elected, but rather tell us stories about how bad and awful the person is they are running against. I honestly cannot […]
This is basically an announcement or reminder for friends in Tucson, Arizona. A few blog posts back we featured several videos of a folkloric dance group from the high school and middle school of the Rio Sonora Valley that a great many people seemed to love. So given the enthusiastic response we got those several videos I thought it a good idea to let folks know that they will be performing in Tucson tomorrow, Saturday, October 9 as part of […]
Last Summer (09), while traveling from Denmark to our next workshop in Slovakia, we were given a tornado-like tour of the well-known German ecovillage, Sieben Linden that is located in the Altmark region of former East Germany. We were escorted/driven there by German architect Dirk Scharmer, who has designed numerous straw bale buildings, as well as some of the ecovillage buildings. Dirk took time from a busy work schedule to give us a tour of the site along with Martin […]
One of the highlights of our European tour last summer was getting to know the country of Slovakia – the landscape, the people, it’s food and traditional buildings. Images from the Unesco village of Vlkolinec We were reminded recently of Slovakia when our friend and host from last summer, architect Zuzana Kierulfova (sounds Slovakian doesn’t it?) sent us a blog update about an ambitious 24 day long workshop/project that she coordinated this last month to build a straw bale dome. […]
Driving from the airport to the downtown metro area of Denver, the first thing that got my attention last week was how dry the landscape appeared compared to green, lush, overgrown southeastern Arizona. Some of our grasses are shoulder-high. Most who think of Arizona, especially during the summer months, would imagine very much the opposite. In fact, the temperatures at home were a few degrees cooler. We were in Denver this past week to meet with the staff of the […]