"Pigs as natural enemies of Japanese knotweed." Since I fought several years to get rid of the knotweed a.k.a architects friend (called so in the 70ies) on our property this has caught my attention. www.landschapnoordholland.nl/projecten/va...

You gotta love this rehab project and the straw mat manufacturing. This is the definition of a green business. www.copano.fr/chantiers-r%...

Who comes up with something like this in the midst of a climate crisis caused by the economy? Energy already costs a fortune for people, emissions from construction are out of control, and now we're building data centers to host 'AI', which by their very nature leeches energy, spews out emissions.

"paused"? Like waiting for less climate change to press play? www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15456...

Mussel shells appear to have advantages in water management, given the large contact area for purification and volume for water storage / reuse. www.ewb.solutions/projecten/ni...

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

Wood, straw, earth - that's basically all you need for passive house walls, floor, roof. The apprentice wanted to use his bare hands to get the feeling. The earth plaster creates airtightness necessary for high performance, without plastic membranes. #strawhouse #strawbuilding #biobased

Wood, straw, earth - that's basically all you need for passive house walls, floor, roof. The apprentice wanted to use his bare hands to get the feeling. The earth plaster creates airtightness necessary for high performance, without plastic membranes. #strawhouse #strawbuilding #biobased

Or use a fraction of what is going to burned to make wood fiber for UK's medieval-energy-efficiency building stock...

Testing of your local clay earth is easy. 1/3

Natural fiber insulation leads to dryer, more durable structues (dryer wood - less chance of failure) compared to mineral wool. You may need to update your urban myths.

... So there's sort of a litmus test if construction people are conscious about climate neutrality. This leaves few options, all of these seem to be bio based (or circular) starting with TIMber, better coupled with rapidly renewable plant materials STRaw HEMp: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As if NIMBYISM needed additional support, now it's turbo charged.

I DO want to repost your construction transformation related posts if I see them. There are simple ways to trigger that, I can't follow everyone, but I will follow you if you post about the good stuff (my definition applies) in architecture, craft, planning... The other way is to mention me. Thanks!

I suspect that there is much more research / money into making conventional materials (usually cement/concrete) more climate-friendly than research into how they can be replaced. Is there a meta-study on this? www.researchgate.net/publication/...

"They can only maintain this stance if they are able to convince enough people that irrational moves towards more climate chaos are in fact pragmatic, and that climate campaigners’ demands are unrealistic [...] grow a spine"

It was a full house! Thank you everyone who visited us today. Great to see so many people interested in healthy, comfortable, high performance buildings built with natural materials. #passivhaus #phopendays #phopendays2025

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

having hiked and camped in fire-scarred areas - how are they reborn? where are the nurse logs and remaining stands that provide shelter and shade and nutrients we'll do anything but stop burning fossil fuels

The whole project is beautiful – load-bearing compressed earth blocks for the walls, mass timber floors. There's a five-story sister building nearby that's got a single stair and seven units per story on the upper levels in a single-loaded corridor configuration. Plus, uh, two levels of 1:1 parking.

Better than your school? qualiteconstruction.com/ressource/ba...

3 french #strawhouse schools in 1 magazine, come on rest of the world... www.linkedin.com/posts/reseau...

There are lots of natural alternatives to mindlessly pouring concrete into all our buildings. This is a very good account to follow if you'd like to know more.

Wooden elevator shaft from our XXL strawhouse in Verden, Norddeutsches Zentrum für Nachhaltiges Bauen. Around 2012.

Homes from straw, beer and bread from grains, clothes from beer brewing... That's a good amount of solution capacity from one crop.

I DO want to repost your construction transformation related posts if I see them. There are simple ways to trigger that, I can't follow everyone, but I will follow you if you post about the good stuff (my definition applies) in architecture, craft, planning... The other way is to mention me. Thanks!

My quote in this story: “Slashing this funding would be the most counter-productive thing the chancellor could do to reduce energy costs. “Government insulation programmes should be paid through tax, so those with the broadest shoulders pay a fairer share” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

BTW we rescued her and one sibling from the death row in Spain a few years ago, both are more or less on a vegan diet (don't tell them).

It feels like if all the wise people from the olden days of the twitter filter bubble have written a book by now. Which is great!

you can preorder @ecominimalnick.bsky.social 's 'the good building book' here www.bloomsbury.com/us/good-buil...

Are you going to #elementalLondon? I’ll see you there! 👇

So easy to make them (earth, timber, straw homes) passive, durable and super healthy with a few tweaks. It was not a priority back then because these are mostly abundant local materials and maintenance / rebuilding was part of the culture.

We have a new carpet made of 🥥 fibers. When we bought the 300-year-old house, there was already a similar one in the attic. I even used it to rescue a tractor with spinning wheels from the mud, it remained intact. I believe there can be good global trade besides what we experience at the moment.

All because some of you out there are still buying Teslas from a Nazi.

Netanyahu's government has approved 48,000 settlement housing units since taking office.

If times are getting rough we could fall back to live in stuff that others throw away. bsky.app/profile/mich...

Immer häufiger ist KI-gestutzt das passendere Wort, satt KI-gestützt.

I love skeptical science, it's the good internet. skepticalscience.com/Eureka_Prize...

That's why we are building and retrofitting passive houses with renewable materials that don't overuse your precious primary energy and keep your beers cool.

Create a strong formwork, fill in earth without any binder, the natural binder is the clay inside the earth. 2/5

did you have chatgpt write that one for you bud

Final blower door for CO_ph is .45 ACH50P Airtight using the paper based DB+ barrier on Ecococon straw panels walls.

This shows as a real lack of moral priorities and no attempt to push on climate, based on the moral principle we must leave the world better than we find it ... so everything meaningful is being delayed in the name of "moderation" yet there will be nothing moderate in a 2.5⁰ or 3⁰ future.

Yes, when we protect ecosystems we protect sources of healthy food, clean water, clean air, clean buildings, a rich, high quality way of life for people + wildlife

Let's fall back to wood, straw and mud huts, passive. Foto: Ecococon, Marina Zajec

Here during the sad demolition this summer, lots more at www.flickr.com/photos/28258...

Das #TempelhoferFeld bleibt unverhandelbar. 🥳 Die Pleiten-CDU will trotzdem eine "Volksbefragung von oben". Macht mit und zeigt, wem das Feld gehört! Zur Abstimmung bitte hier entlang. 👇 #thfbleibt compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ta... #thfbleibt

Wenn die Wirtschaftsministerin sich in einem österreichischen Edelhotel mit Lobbyisten und Milliardären trifft, dann ist das kein Privattermin. Die Öffentlichkeit muss erfahren, wer dabei war und wer bezahlt hat. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Strohbau-Workshop bis morgen noch zum Sparpreis. Dann aber immer noch ein Schnäppchen, weil ich euch persönlich an einem Tag: * den "klassischen" Strohbau, * die Strohelement-Vorfertigung, * die Sanierung mit Strohballen zeigen werde. Sowie Strohhäuser von S-XXL vor Ort. biwena.de/index.php/ev...

Samstag 15.11. 10-16 Uhr am Norddeutschen Zentrum für Nachhaltiges Bauen (XXL Strohhaus, gucken wir uns ausführlich an.) Strohbau mit mir lernen: klimabauzentrum.de/veranstaltun...