Happy Interdependence: Clay/Straw wall raising/work party.

[ION Ecobuilding]

Happy Interdependence Day to everyone on the Home Empowerment email list.  Please know that this list is intended for everyone to use and post to.  If you have an work party or community building opportunity that you think people would enjoy and learn from please post. Here is to working toward a cooperative and ecological culture that makes connections and builds resilience.

To that note....Here is a super fun & satisfying ecological building opportunity....using local/natural materials.

Clay/Straw Wall Raising (filling)

CELEBRATING EARTHEN BUILDING, COMMUNITY AND CALLIOPE FARM

At Calliope Farm, in West Oly (near Evergreen)

3-DAY EDUCATIONAL WORK-PARTY

.  Building science & principals

.  Raw, local, minimally processed materials

.  Form work and wall preparation

.  Light Earth (Clay/Straw) production & Wall filling

.  Community collaboration

.  Good fun and good food

Facilitators:  Joseph Becker & Tanner Milliren (ION Ecobuilding) with Aaron & Megan (Homeowners)

About clay/straw building (Light Earth or Leight Lehnm in Geman): These clay/straw walls will be built by combining local clay,  loose (not baled) straw and wate together and packing it inside a 2x6” wall. This technique is a traditional “infill” in German timber frame structures (many 500 year old + and still occupied) and is now having a resurgence workldwide. The loose straw is combined with the liquid clay, coating the straw in a protective mineralized coating, which preserves the fiber. After the walls dry, they are plastered using natural plasters inside and out.  We are also creating a “Super Insulated Earth” Hybrid wall by wrapping the clay/straw walls with 3” of exterior, continuous insulation

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Joseph is a passionate ecological builder, educator and owner of ION Ecobuilding. He spends much of his working with owners, builders and communities in collaborative ecological building projects. Joseph specializes in local, natural, and least toxic materials as well as energy efficiency, and traditional building systems (including earth, straw & lime).

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Best Energy,

Joseph Becker

ION Ecobuilding
"Energy-efficient & earth based building"
Education, contracting and consulting

www.IONecobuilding.org
360 402 2249

15 year active member of the NW Ecobuilding Guild &
Co-originator of the Code Innovations Database Project

www.Ecobuilding.org

www.Codeinnovations.org