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Sam Butler

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Working on unexpected solutions and actionable media for affordability, housing, data centers at surviveways.org & sambutler.us

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Sam Butler @sambutler.us · 09/11/2024

And homes built with natural materials — like straw bale, timber, hemp — are the best form of carbon sequestration. Plus healthy, well insulated homes without toxic construction materials. via @thelastfarm.bsky.social (5/6)

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A home built by hand from natural materials sequesters carbon, rather than emitting it because it is made largely of carbon. A straw bale and wood frame house sequesters around 15 tons of CO2 for the life of the building; the reason being that straw and wood contain a great deal of carbon, and it doesn't break down while the house is standing. If, after a few hundred years, the house needs to be replaced, the carbon is simply re-sequestered.

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Natural home interior w/ wooden beams and lots of windows and natural light, w/ caption "you could be living here, along with a bunch of CO2 in the walls"

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Now let's match these individual statistics to the problem at scale. The Paris Agreement would require that 550 million tons of carbon be sequestered per year by 2030. At 15 tons of CO2 per straw bale house, that's only 36.6 million houses, on a planet with 8 billion inhabitants, or a new house for .5% of the total global pop each year.

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Sam Butler @sambutler.us · 09/11/2024

In alignment with the Indigenous Peoples Principles and Protocols for Just Transition www.indigenoussummit.org/summit-outcome @earthworks.bsky.social (4/6)

We affirm that these activities carried out in Indigenous territories without free, prior and
informed consent violate our inherent and recognized rights and do not constitute a
transition, but rather a form of modern genocide against our worldviews, ways of life, and
territorial governance systems.
We also have noted solutions and good practices, based on our own knowledge, sciences,
technologies, lived experiences and time-tested practices for restoration of sustainable
food production and soil, ecosystem protection, and true and equitable just transition,
distinct from models based on imposition, extraction, and colonialism.
As Indigenous Peoples, we affirm that the concept of a just transition as it is currently
presented is not true, as it implies initiatives and proposals driven by transnational
corporations and States to implement and consolidate the free-market economic model,
neoliberalism, and deepens the inequalities of the capitalist system.
This leads to genocide and ecocide, as States and corporations fail to ensure respect for
Mother Earth and the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
For Indigenous Peoples, a just transition means exercising our own forms of territorial
governance according to our traditions and ways of life.
We point out that we continue to be affected by the current and increasing levels of fossil
fuel extraction, which, along with so-called "green" or "clean" energy projects, create a
double impact on Indigenous Peoples.
We recognize the urgent need to affirm Indigenous Peoples’ own visions, definitions, and
to develop principles and protocols, as well as plans and means for action, in order to
confront these threats, as well as to contribute in a positive way to discussions, programs,
and actions on all levels for environmental sustainability, protection of ecosystems and
biodiversity, and the prevention and aversion of climate change.

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