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		<title>Being Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coenraad Rogmans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I define a good home as &#8220;A house where we feel strong connections with people and place.&#8221; It&#8217;s hard to get around the fact that if you are looking for strong connections with people and place, you will have to spend time with those people and in that place. In other words, if you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curtains</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coenraad Rogmans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Such simple things, with so many great functions! As a kid I remember in the winter time how important the moment was that we closed the curtains in the evening. It meant that everyone was inside for the night, that food was about to be prepared , that Dad would come home soon and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pine Ridge Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coenraad Rogmans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or how to build a house for about $25 per square foot!
This winter we are engaged in the planning process for a major outreach project on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where we intend to build a small 2 bedroom house.  This exciting project will challenge us on many levels: technologically, logistically, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the Natural Building Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thomson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a week in October, a group of about 80 natural builders came together for the annual &#8220;Natural Building Colloquium&#8221; in Southern Oregon.  These events began about 15 years ago, as a way to bring members of the fledgling natural building movement together to share stories and techniques, meet and get inspired.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schools, Hospitals, and Prisons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coenraad Rogmans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago we went to visit friends who run a children&#8217;s camp on the shores of Lake Tahoe, CA, to relax and spend some time on the lake. In order to get there we had to drive through Reno, Nevada.  Approaching Reno from the north, a significant building caught my eye.  Because I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thomson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had the good fortune to visit a small island off the coast of El Salvador.  The island, called &#8220;Isle de Meangueara&#8221;, can only be reached by taking a small lancha (boat) from the port town of La Union on the mainland.  Everything the island uses arrives like this: food, drinking water, clothes, building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a House With a Spouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coenraad Rogmans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, it&#8217;s a funny rhyme, but it is a serious occasion. Building a house with the one you love can be a dangerous undertaking for your relationship. Many married couples end up divorced after several years of working on a house together. Often the house then has to be sold in order to pay the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soft Materials</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coenraad Rogmans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is important to consider the characteristics of the materials you bring into your house. By understanding how they effect you, you can then choose use materials that will make your living condition more pleasant, harmonious, functional, and healthy. These very important considerations are mostly overlooked in the conventional building industry.
Building materials have many different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cob Speed&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 19:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coenraad Rogmans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early Eighties I read a very interesting little book by a philosopher named Ivan Illich.  The book was about driving cars and started out by calculating the average speed at which a car travels in its lifetime.  Want to guess?  The answer is 6 miles per hour. This is true [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Years of Cob</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coenraad Rogmans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been about 10 years since I took my first 1-week cob workshop. I sank my bare feet into the mud to mix the sand straw and clay together, wondering how this could possibly lead to the building of a house.
I have now designed and built more than 30 structures and taught workshops all [...]]]></description>
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