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Katie Jones @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
No risk of big bad wolves here! People are interested in healthy homes that don’t pollute the planet. Despite the nursery stories, I will promote the use of healthier, more sustainable, local materials that follow evidence-based construction standards any day of the week.
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It is no longer enough for a material to be capable of being produced in a climate-neutral way ‘in theory in the future’; it must be low-carbon or carbon-negative right now. THREAD
Page from Straw Building Patent from 1921 by Emil Feuillette showing stacked compressed straw bales with plaster
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Cypren @mrcypren.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📍 Nantes, France | 2–6 Feb 2027 The quality of our conversations will help determine the quality of our solutions. More to come. #isbc2027
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Our biggest issue yet (over 120 pages!) is available now! 🔥 🏠️ 🧱 Issue 77 looks to fire as a cause for concern, hope, and provocation; gathering voices that expand our understanding of how to shape buildings, energy, and daily life when the earth is the hottest it has ever been.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.
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The Last Farm @thelastfarm.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I wrote about 3 of my favorite low-tech design innovations from Iran open.substack.com/pub/thelastf...
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The low-tech brilliance of Iranian design
3 resilient technologies demonstrating the remarkable innovation of Iranian engineering
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
just doing our duty👇
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
From The Last Straw Monthly Round-up: Extreme weather might be one of the most visible signs of climate change, but crossing planetary thresholds takes many forms. This month we take a look at how to help Typhoon Halong survivors in Alaska, a cob building comeback?, wildfire prevention, and more...
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Open Call: Get your building featured in the next issue of The Last Straw magazine! If your building is selected, it’ll be featured in the next magazine and you’ll receive a free copy of the issue! Email all submissions to editors@thelaststraw.org by October 31st!
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
There is no "miracle" technology! We need to relearn and update the sufficient lifeways that predate cheap fossil fuels.
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This month's TLS Talks is an online panel discussion between six young professionals making their own way in architecture, construction, and education with natural materials. Register for free (donations encouraged) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-wor...
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The real "there is no alternative"
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Authoritarian neoliberalism: make more people houseless, poor, surveilled, and automated out of a job, and then throw them in a hole.
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
@newframeworks.bsky.social co-owner Jose Ignacio “Nacho” De La Cruz was violently abducted by ICE on June 14th, along with his 18 year old stepdaughter, Heidi. Support them and learn more about how ICE, building, and everything are connected here: www.newframeworks.com/support-our-...
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We are blowing past our modest climate thresholds faster than expected: “irreversible tipping points in the climate system — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the wide-scale collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than scientists previously believed.” from archive.is/202505291047...
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Our first TLS Talk with Ace McArleton starts in less an hour! We'll talk about New Frameworks' SEED program, and hear from the first couple program graduates. Tune in for free and ask your questions!
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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
The 1st #strawhouse in Europe was renovated after ~100 years. I asked the cncp-feuillette.fr about problems with the renovation for a lecture: "We didn't need to carry out any major renovations, just plastering and limewash paint, because it was in very good condition."
Straw house lime plastered covered in wild wine.
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
“Unlike many carbon removal solutions still in development, biomass building products are already commercially manufactured in the United States and globally.” Even if you just skim this, the conventional material carbon and monetary cost comparisons are worth a look: rmi.org/insight/buil...?
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Building with Biomass: A New American Harvest - RMI
How manufacturing building products from domestically sourced upcycled biomass can create more jobs and affordable healthy housing
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Join our live video call May 28 w/ New Frameworks co-founder Ace McArleton as he talks about the SEED program, which helps make sure "high-performance, carbon-smart, and socially just building practices are accessible, scalable, and shared." Register for free : www.eventbrite.com/e/ace-mcarle...
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Good clarifying piece that calls for building new institutions and points out architecture's connection to everything, requiring that "we...all become architecture critics"
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A recent study found that on a global scale soil is getting worse at retaining moisture: www.carbonbrief.org/global-soil-... It also found that dry soil is a more significant cause of sea level rise than previously thought, creating even more ripe conditions for droughts, floods, wildfires.
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
You may have heard that a new book called Abundance came out recently, with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson claiming to offer a way out of climate crisis that would be neither uncomfortable nor unpopular. Critical reviews quickly came out picking apart the book's oversimplifications:
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The Last Straw Magazine @thelaststrawmag.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We're new here, but not new to the world. We've been putting out stuff about natural building and ecological design for almost 33 years! Here's a little bit about a few DIY-ers helped revive natural building methods: www.thelaststraw.org/a-history-of...
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A History of Straw Bale Resurgence - The Last Straw
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