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| | Your Home Technical Manual - 3.4e Construction Systems - Straw Bale |
 | | A straw bale wall requires footings with a similar load carrying capacity to that required for a masonry wall, although a straw wall is generally much lighter (one mud brick weighs about the same as a straw bale). | | | Straw bale walls are surprisingly resistant to fire, vermin and decay. | | | Straw bales are inherently low in embodied energy but most are produced by fossil-fueled machinery, they are tied together by plastic twine and may end up being transported over hundreds of kilometres. |
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http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/yourhome/technical/fs34e.htm
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| | Straw Wattle Dams |
| | Straw wattles are easy to place in contact with the soil and provide a low risk barrier to soil movement. | | | Wattles are generally stuffed with straw, rice or wheat. | | | As in the straw bale check dam, the wattle is placed in a horseshoe shape. |
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http://fire.r9.fws.gov/ifcc/Esr/Treatments/straw-wattle-damsi.htm
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| | straw on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Straw was once widely used as a packing material and in the manufacture of strawboard (a cheap cardboard) and, in combination with less brittle materials, of paper. | | | Effects of pine straw harvesting on quantity and quality of surface runoff. | | | Don and Tracy Oberg's straw bale house is covered with stucco, except for a "truth window" that allows visitors to see the straw inside the walls. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s1/straw.asp
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| | Swarthmore College Strawbale House Project |
| | Straw bales were used as forms during the casting process, as shown in the accompanying diagram. | | | The concrete foundation of the straw bale house is a variation of a design used by Frank Lloyd Wright: a beam of reinforced concrete cast on a shallow gravel-filled footer with external insulation. | | | Since there are few straw bale houses in areas with cold wet winters, we hope that the information gathered will be very useful to anyone in interested in building a straw house on the East Coast. |
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http://www.swarthmore.edu/es/strawbale.html
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| | Sourcebook Straw Bale |
| | Straw bale construction uses baled straw from wheat, oats, barley, rye, rice and others in walls covered by stucco. | | | Two basic styles of straw bale construction have been used: post and beam construction with straw bale infill, and structural straw bale construction or "Nebraska" style (the weight of the roof is supported by the bales). | | | Straw bale are traditionally a waste product which farmers do not till under the soil, but do sell as animal bedding or landscape supply due to their durable nature. |
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http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/strawbale.html
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Straw man - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Straw man is also a type of media manipulation. | | | Probably originating from the Athenian man of straw who were men that could be found in the courts who placed a piece of straw in their shoes (also called straw-shoes). | | | Two so-called matadors--people dressed in bright colors whose job it is to distract the bull if the rider is injured--are in the ring as well and are usually far more effective than the straw man. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/s/straw-man.html
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| | Turbo Turf Straw Blowers |
| | Blowing straw with a Turbo Turf Straw Blower is 10 times faster than shaking straw by hand and produces the same results using 20% less straw. | | | Straw is a great way to provide erosion control and to maintain optimum conditions for seed germination. | | | Turbo Turf’s straw blowers are a great time and labor saving system for any new lawn seeding project or erosion control application. |
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http://www.strawblowers.com
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| | Strawbale Construction |
| | Straw is available wherever grain crops are grown, and is annually renewable. | | | In a "barn-raising" type party, it's common for all the straw bale walls in a modest size structure to be erected in a single day. | | | Common questions about straw bale homes include concerns about fire, moisture, and insects. |
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http://www.txses.org/epsea/straw.html
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| | RoadTrip America® - Straw Bale Houses in Arizona |
| | There's nothing flimsy about a house made of straw, as long as the straw is tightly baled, free of pesticides, dry, and used in accordance with good engineering principles. | | | RoadTrip America® - Straw Bale Houses in Arizona | | | She opened the Huff 'n' Puff Straw Bale Inn in August, 1996. |
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http://www.roadtripamerica.com/people/straw.htm
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| | Green Home Building: Natural Building techniques: Strawbale |
| | The Straw Bale House by Athena Steen, et al, 1994. | | | The latest research in the field of straw bale design and construction is presented. | | | Author and photographer Catherine Wanek organized the building of a straw bale greenhouse in 1992 and has been an advocate for straw bale construction every since. |
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http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/strawbale.htm
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| | Straw Polyhedra |
| | Straw polyhedra are skeletal polyhedra whose edges are non-bendable (8 inches long or less) colored straws, held together by thin cotton twine threaded through the straws. | | | When you make a straw polyhedron, making it with colored straws in such a way that in each vertex, all straws have different colors, is a big help. | | | You may thread up to four strands of twine through one straw, but all polyhedra, or even more complex nets, can be assembled by threading twine at most twice through the same straw. |
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http://www.math.nmsu.edu/breakingaway/Lessons/straw/straw.html
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| | ET 5/96: Straw bale construction: an update |
| | Straw bale homes, which have an adobe look to them, are very attractive because the walls are thick and solid, typically 22 inches thick. | | | As far as insects are concerned, straw is usually not on the menu. | | | Straw bales were trucked from San Ysidro to the site. |
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http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et0596/et0596s2.html
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| | Straw Types |
| | There are many straws for the modern hat manufacturer to choose from, both the Chinese and the Filipino straw weavers produce many different types of straw, woven in a myriad of ways. | | | Both single and double wheat straws are natural. | | | It is interesting to note that although many types of straw exists, the contemporary hat manufacture often uses only a few of the classic straws. |
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http://www.hatsuk.com/hatsuk/hatsukhtml/bible/strawtypes.htm
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| | Surfin' StrawBale |
| | David Bainbridge, co-author of The Straw Bale House. | | | Straw Bale Hut Update (March, 1999)—"The Straw Bale hut is thriving. | | | "The Straw Bale Association of Texas is dedicated to promoting straw bale construction in Texas. |
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http://mha-net.org/html/sblinks.htm
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| | Straw Bale Homes |
| | Properly plastered straw bale walls have the same or better fire resistance rating as a standard stick frame home. | | | Straw Bales have an insulation value of R55. | | | Straw Bale Construction has been universally accepted as an environmentally responsible and an energy saving method of building for decades. |
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http://www.strawguy.com
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| | Controlling Pond Algae with Barley Straw, NF00-429 |
| | To calculate the number to bales needed to treat the pond, divide the total amount of straw required to treat the whole pond by the weight of a single bale of barley straw. | | | The decomposition of the straw requires oxygen, and applying excessive amounts (greater than 900 lbs per acre) of straw could reduce the oxygen content of the water to levels that stress or kill fish. | | | The effectiveness of the straw is reduced by sediments suspended in the water (i.e. |
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http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/wildlife/nf429.htm
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| | Burbophobia cure . . . build it yourself |
| | We also have some definite opinions on building with straw bales as well as working with an architect/designer, and on salvaging materials, both new and old. | | | Straw bale construction and other ways to make a life by hand | | | Might be building houses out of materials we live close to, like straw bales and earth. |
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http://www.moxvox.com/straw.html
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| | The Last Straw: Human Resource List |
| | Dennis LaGrande - DLG Farms and Straw Bales. | | | Commercial grade rice and wheat straw bale suppliers (See www.strawbalelocator.com). | | | Green Prairie Foundation for Sustainability/GPFS, MidAmerica Straw Bale Association/MASBA, Straw Bale Association of Nebraska/SBAN. |
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http://www.thelaststraw.org/resources/humanresources.html
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| | Come Hell or High Water, We've Got You Covered. Straw Net |
| | Compressed straw fibers are formed into easily applied pellets that weigh more than conventional straw so they can't be blown around. | | | For years straw has been used to help maintain soil moisture during germination. | | | Holding moisture around the seed during germination process is one of the major keys to successful seeding. |
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http://www.strawnet.com
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| | The Last Straw: Judy Knox & Matts Myhrman |
| | But it wasn't because the straw bales had failed. | | | As word of how to build with straw bales began to spread in recent years, owner/builders found they could put up a nice home for $25 to $30 a square foot. | | | The problems stemmed from poor materials for foundations, too little wood to make adequate lintels over doors and windows, or a combination of using rigid posts at the corners and load-bearing bales in between. |
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http://www.strawhomes.com/history/roots.html
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| | New Strawbale House Plans |
| | If you are going to build a straw bale house, most if not all are really necessary as they compliment each other in important ways. | | | If I HAD to choose only two, it would be "Build it With Bales" and "Serious Straw Bale". | | | (a new straw bale home for $32 a square foot?) |
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http://www.solarhaven.org/NewStrawbale.htm
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| | Straw Bale Vaulted Structures |
| | This vaulted straw bale cottage in Point Reyes Station, CA, was designed by Daniel Smith and Associates Architects in collaboration with Penny Livingston-Stark of the Permaculture Institute of Northern California.. | | | It is one of the first vaulted straw bale structures built. | | | See a straw bale house built in Vermont |
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http://www.imagegypsy.com/sbvault.htm
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| | StrawBaleBuilding |
| | Straw bale walls, when combined with a thick plaster interior, create not only superior insulation--but form a large thermal mass. | | | Straw bales may be incorporated into a roof truss system as in the house above. Even more | | | Bales used in foundations and cement create an insulated and strong foundation for cold climates--where the mean soil temperature is too low for comfort. |
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http://www.strawbaletradingpost.homestead.com/StrawBaleBuilding.html
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| | Straw Man Argument |
| | That Straw Man urban myth has been, and continues to be, spread by anti-evolutionists to cause doubt and confusion. | | | It's easy for the perpetrator to knock down their own Straw Man because they can make the Straw Man themselves. | | | Usually, the person using the argument will knock down the unrealistic caricature in Step 2 as quickly as possible, and then proclaim that the opposing position has been demolished because they were so cleverly able to knock down their own manufactured Straw Man. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lilyth/strawman.html
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| | The Annotated "Jack Straw" |
| | Many years ago I believe that I found "Jack Straw" in a dictionary and recall that it was defined as the straw discarded after harvest, of no further use or something like that. | | | I've become use to thinking of Jack Straw as the waste of the harvest for all these years. | | | It is quite true that the Continuator of Knighton held this view,...and that two or three ballads and several fifteenth-cnetury chroniclers...speak of Jakke Straw being killed by Walworth at Smithfield."--ibid., p. |
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http://arts.ucsc.edu/GDead/AGDL/jstraw.html
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| | HFH Straw Bale House, Pueblo, Colorado |
| | You can also contact Owen for information on how to volunteer for the next Habitat Straw Bale House, to be built in the summer of 1998. | | | This is a list of suppliers, subcontractors and others who delivered outstanding products and services on the new Habitat for Humanity straw bale house. | | | City of Tucson Affordable Straw Bale Homes Project |
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http://www.moxvox.com/hfh.html
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| | Instrawment |
| | Start at the end of straw furthest from your mouth and cut the straw shorter inch by inch while you're blowing. | | | Cut the edges off the end of the flattened part of straw as shown. | | | Or cut-off the tip of your straw and start again. |
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http://www.doscience.com/act_archive/sept98_activity/sept98.html
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| | BuildingGreen.com - EBN 7:9 - R-Value of Straw Bales Lower Than Previously Reported |
| | Thus he concluded that the insulating value is R-2.68 per inch (0.054 W/m°C) when heat flow is perpendicular to the orientation of the straws (bales stacked on edge) and R-2.38 per inch (0.061 W/m°C) when the heat flow is parallel to the straw orientation. | | | This water was found to have wicked as much as 6” (150 mm) into the wall along the edges of some of the bales. | | | BuildingGreen.com - EBN 7:9 - R-Value of Straw Bales Lower Than Previously Reported |
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http://www.buildinggreen.com/news/r-value.html
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| | PNI.org Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute |
| | The STRAW has two components, a timing component and a severity component. | | | The key to the STRAW is the timed component. | | | Neppe developed the STRAW in the early 1990s because of the non-availability of adequate measures which would reliably differentiate subtle differences in tardive dyskinesia, and which could be easily scored within a 10% range by several different raters. |
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http://www.pni.org/neuropsychiatry/instruments/straw.html
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| | Straw Productions |
| | The wide variety of services is offered as a result of the expertise Straw Productions holds in several fields. | | | Whether it's capturing your special day on video, managing a musician, or developing/creating a televised commercial, Straw Productions has one standard: excellence. | | | These things help to set Straw Productions apart from other companies. |
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http://www.strawproductions.com
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| | Strawbale Components |
| | Straw is very low in embodied energy, though transportation beyond the locale increases the EE rapidly. | | | Some materials may not have high embodied energy, but may never the less be offensive due to the environmental stress their production, use, or disposal can cause. | | | And at this point in history, there are many reasons to protect forest ecosystems, which should encourage an attitude of frugality in its use. |
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http://www2.whidbey.net/lighthook/sbparts.htm
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| | DAWN SouthWest |
| | Following this vision, we continue to partner with others in the SE Arizona region, including other natural builders and permaculture practioners in the community, supporting their events, co-sponsoring and producing a series of workshops that integrate permaculture principles with natural building systems (construction using straw, earthen and other natural materials). | | | DAWN SouthWest (formerly DAWN/Out On Bale By Mail) continues to evolve, expand and change. | | | If you are an owner/builder who can offer your site for others to view, and don't mind sharing your experiences, we encourage you to add your information to the International Straw Bale Registry at www.greenbuilder.com and let us know as well. |
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http://www.greenbuilder.com/dawn
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| | Subject Top Page: Conditional Rice Straw Burning Permits Regulatory Development |
| | The Connelly-Areias-Chandler Rice Straw Burning Reduction Act of 1991 (the Act) mandates that rice straw burning in the Sacramento Valley be phased down starting in 1992 and, starting September 2001, allowed only under specified conditions for disease control. | | | Advisory Committee on Alternatives to Rice Straw Burning | | | Subject Top Page: Conditional Rice Straw Burning Permits Regulatory Development |
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http://www.arb.ca.gov/smp/rice/condburn/condburn.htm
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| | Welcome to http://www.strawbale-building.co.uk--A strawbale building info site |
| | Strawbale building is the use of straw bales to construct anything from a basic shed to a wonderful family home. | | | curious who build, live in and/or love buildings made of straw bales. | | | Please feel free to contact me, I welcome enquiries with no obligation, for your strawbale project from basic advice to actual building work. |
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http://www.strawbale-building.co.uk
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| | Huff 'n' Puff Strawbale Constructions |
| | Re: Straw Bale Workshop at "She Oaks", on ANZAC weekend 2005. | | | Willing workers came from near and far for an intensive five days to build my house and to learn the Straw Bale technolgy from John and Susan of Huff 'n' Puff Constructions. | | | Miracles prevailed as trouble-shooting, re-coordinating, juggling and shuffling became part of the everyday during the week leading up to the workshop. |
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http://strawbale.archinet.com.au
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| | The Straw Warehouse (Ltd) New Zealand |
| | The Straw Warehouse has two partners, Peter and Herb, and between them, they aim to provide the best Hay and Straw they can find, at the most realistic price, and delivered in the best possible time frame. | | | We source top quality Hay and Straw product and we supply North Island Farmers, Horse Racing Stables and Studs and Hobbyists etc. | | | The Straw Warehouse Ltd is based from our office in Walton (North Island, NZ)and was established 4 years ago. |
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http://straw_warehouse.tripod.com
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| | Welcome to CASBA! the California Straw Building Association |
| | The Last Straw - The International Journal of Straw Bale and Natural Building | | | Building Network Straw Bale Construction - Research and Testing Program | | | Our mission is to "...further the practice of straw building by exchanging current information and practical experience, promoting and conducting research and testing, and making that body of knowledge available to working professionals and the public at large." |
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http://www.strawbuilding.org
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| | Ezekiel A. Straw - Guide to Likeness of New Hampshire Officials and Governors |
| | Ezekiel Straw's father was a surveyor and overseer of a cotton mill. | | | In 1838 Straw joined Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (Manchester, NH) as an engineer. | | | Governor Straw worked to reduce the war debt which the state had taken over from impoverished post-war towns. |
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http://www.state.nh.us/nhdhr/glikeness/straezek.html
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| | straw |
| | catch, clutch, or grasp at a straw, at straws, or at any straw or straws, | | | of, pertaining to, containing, or made of straw: | | | to decide by lottery using straws or strawlike items of different lengths, usually with the short straw or straws determining the person chosen or the loser. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/straw
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| | The Rice Straw Market - Homepage |
| | The objective of the site is to enhance opportunities for buyers and sellers of California rice straw to exchange products and services. | | | Welcome to the RiceStrawMarket.org, your gateway to an interactive market place for buyers and sellers of California rice straw and rice straw products. | | | If you are involved in any of the following service areas in the rice straw business, you should consider using this site. |
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http://www.ricestrawmarket.org
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| | BBC News UK Straw's brother on sex register |
| | She said Straw, who is married but separated, started talking to her and touched her on the stomach, below the crop top she was wearing. | | | But Straw rang her at home later and repeated his offer. | | | William Straw: Denied the charge of indecent assault |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/916179.stm
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| | Straw Bedding - Definition of Straw Bedding - Horse Encyclopedia |
| | Straw makes perfectly acceptable bedding but is becoming less popular because it causes colic in horses that eat it. | | | Straw Bedding - Definition of Straw Bedding - Horse Encyclopedia | | | Also, it is not as absorbent as other types of bedding, and you must use a lot of it to properly bed a stall. |
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http://www.horseandridergear.com/encyclopedia/straw-bedding.aspx
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| | International Straw Bale Registry Project |
| | Greenbuilder.com, The Last Straw Journal, The Straw Bale Association of Texas, and the Development Center for Appropriate Technology, along with a number of regional strawbale organizations, are working together to build a database of buildings constructed using straw bale. | | | Today, this culture of inclusiveness and grassroots participation at every level of both growing and using our collection of resources is the beating heart of the straw-bale construction revival. | | | The Last Straw's publisher, The Green Prairie Foundation for Sustainability/GPFS, is a 501(c)(3) and can accept tax deductible contributions. |
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http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com
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