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2024

From Elder Peterson - This recent article suggests that people whose homes burned in wildfires are rebuilding with compressed earth brick. They might be a new market, either as a resource to contractors or to DIY builders. [1]

Response: We are just getting started and the future brings in hybrid CEB-stick using non-cured block to allow for speed of Seed Eco-Home, much higher strength than stick, and fiberglass batts in the framing, u-trusses of OSB such as in the Universal Construction Set, and likely drywall due to its finish quality. Exterior could be vinyl or any standard material. PV is standard, with flat living roof. All innovative as industry standards would cost several times more. Then add heat storage with water in totes for full off grid with ample PV. Then we solve energy, with a hydrogen filling station in every home, at the cost of extra PV. How wonderful is that?.

TLDR: definitely CEB-stick hybrids, where stick gets you the alignment, and CEB gets you structure. with redundancy so either stick or brick alone is structural code compliant. It gets better by the minute, hence the need for open innovation.

Apprenticeship announcement soon. Please repost on FB Workshops if you like, linking to your nice article.

There is definitely going to be a market for eco CEB bug-out huts. Everyone is too scared.

More Notes: Dear Marcin,

I haven't followed this recently and only stumbled over the article I forwarded. I don't know anything new about Jim Hallock.

Where I am living now, in South Africa, many structures are built of brick or cinder block, then completely covered with stucco, and frequently repainted. On the outskirts of town are villages or neighborhoods called townships. Many structures are primitive, built of galvanized roofing panels and wood. It is challenging to see how these people might afford any significant improvement to their housing. They pay in advance for electricity which is added to their meter. Often, they run out of power to operate an electric stove or lightbulb. We try to call them on a phone, but they have "run out" of minutes, which they purchase in advance. When we suggest they download information, the storage available on their phone is insufficient. They do not have internet. Kitchen sinks drain outside on the ground.

Unemployment for 18-25 approaches 60%. People are sweeping gutters and sidewalks. Teams use string trimmers to clear grasslands. Individuals sort through trash to separate various bottles and types of plastic which they carry in huge bundles and sell to recycle.

In contrast, we see miles of fertile vineyards, olive and apricot orchards, and other agricultural fields. Food is plentiful and reasonably priced in malls and large, modern, grocery chain stores. BMW, and Mercedes as well as late model VW, Nisson & Honda are on modern, local highways.

Without commenting on personalities or issues, it is unconscionable that $1 bn will be spent in media, print, and TV advertising.

There are so many opportunities. Thank you for pursuing them.

All the best,

Elder Peterson

MJ response: Thank you for noticing the local conditions. I went to South Africa in 1995 for a 3 month internship at Eskom. I spent my first night in Soweto, with my coworker. The real deal is a Global Problemsolving Method which we are working on, so we can deploy on missions once we have ample staff. The big question is that which i noticed when I arrived to America fresh off the boat from Poland, in 1982. Why are certain countries well off, and others shit? The answer is Institutions. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Econ was awarded for coming up with this answer. So I am wondering if you also thought about this in similar lines. Because the problem is bigger and more costly than going on standard missions. It needs to call out for a much bigger solution, in terms of defining problemsolving on the institutional scale. You can contribute to the wiki etc by starting to define such propositions, including simple steps to get there. Such as: "The locals live in shit housing. The solution is econ dev. Here is a start. But this start builds to insititutions being created." Etc. That is the style with which we approach our Apprenticeship. We cross subsidize via robust enterprise. We replicate like mad. We build to sizeable cohorts based on 24 person class size. By 4 years, 240 people are working on 1 project. Campuses are built up to the 2400 person scale (may be too large for Maysville, we'll see - but definitely 240 people here). Then we need 100k of these serving 100k population each, worldwide, to span the entire population. In 2 decades we should have a new world.

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