GBlist: Re: Seminars and education

["tom_st_louis" <tom_st_louis@email.msn.com>]

Geof

If you know all these things about education and you know all there is to
know about  building science, energy and resource conserving materials and
systems, green and sustainable building, why are your being negative about
it? The education I am talking about is still needed (maybe not for you) for
everyone else and we need you to be one of the educators. I am an
Educator/Builder and now a Materials Supplier/Educator. I have a MS degree
in Education and Vocational Technical Education, I know something about
teaching and the hassles that go with it. Any toughness or difficulty there
may or may not be, go with the job. Some people even have a tough time
learning. Lets get on with it anyway.

I just find it sad that building our homes, places of work and play cannot
be done better then minimum with long term thinking, energy use, lifecycle,
health
and environmental impact as the major driving force. What we have instead is
short term thinking, concern over up front cost, lets build it as cheap as
possible, junk. And look where it is getting us.

As you know, the real money spent is in the long term costs during the life
of a
structure.

If the market gets people to change, so be it, but it may be to late. I have
also heard it suggested that some people still are in denial, not believing
that there is an energy problem or global climate change happening. This may
be good for some of us out here in the trenches because people will finally
be listening, paying for our services and buying our energy and resource
conserving products.

I still believe that education is our best tool.
You said "I read eeba and a few others-a few new ideas but mostly rants and
ravings.....too bad/missed opportunity here....."

Do you have any other good positive alternatives or suggestions? Please help
us with you wisdom.
What should we/they have done or do to not ..."miss opportunities"?

Sincerely
Tom St. Louis Pres.
T.R. Strong Building Systems Co.
Problem Solving for Sustainable Building TM
Distribution & Support for Recycled Content,
Energy and Resource Conserving Building Materials
6901 Bayview Dr. NE.
Olympia, WA. 98506
360-705-2868 FX 943-6418
http://www.baubuilder.com
E-mail tom_st_louis@msn.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Geof Kaye" <KAYE-RIVERCITY@webtv.net>
To: <ee-building@eeba.org>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:21 AM
Subject: Seminars and education






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