NOTES TO GINA

• My favorite has a principle behind it that I like
  BUT
  The materials that would either be quite good and/or garner social and political support (unlike mine) would be wattle and daub and bamboo. Perhaps also cob or nog.
  
  Further Thoughts
  
  BAMBOO
  - fast growing
  - adds vegetation and oxygen to the environment
  - excellent for the long haul but doesn't deal with the issue of industrial waste in the present
  
  WATTLE AND DAUB
  - relatively benign environmentally, but requires excavation and a measure of deforestation, of which there is already way too much
  - traditional method that could bring back memories and yield buy-in
  
  NOG AND COB
  - solid walls that resemble (popular) concrete and also can use metal rebar
  - also would seem to require a measure of excavation, of which we already have too much
  
  MY PREFERENCE IS CARDBOARD
  - easy to manipulate--can be cut with a knife
  - good for insulation
  - soft where that is desirable--like on floors--but can be hardened by paint, and work even for exteriors.
  - can also work with metal rebar, but can substitute metal for PVC tubes
  - given away free by stores
  - precludes adding it to the waste stream
  - symbiotic with industrial proction which uses cardboard boxes for packaging and transporting
  - might be minimally destructive in terms of forestry, but to a very much lesser degree than most other building materials
  - therefore an opportunity for coordinated endeavor with stores and other related industries
  - can be as thin or as thick as desired--through the use of layering
  
  The artwork I sent you tends to prefigure my architectural approaches.

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