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Congressional Briefing on Straw-Bale Construction

Posted June 29, 2008 3:23 PM by Mark Piepkorn
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On June 20, a briefing about straw-bale construction organized by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) was held in the Russell Senate Office Building.

Laura Bartels (President of GreenWeaver Inc. and member of the Builders Without Borders Building Team), Sandy Wiggins (immediate past Chairman of the Board of the USGBC), Bob Gough (Secretary of the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy), and David Eisenberg (Director of the Development Center for Appropriate Technology and chair of the USGBC's Codes Committee) spoke.

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