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Myrna Fletcher’s famous strawbale house is in the news once again: Myrna Fletcher wants you to know that you, too, could build a straw bale house. The energetic great-grandmother is closing in on her dream of living in an energy-efficient straw bale house — a dream that’s taken about three-and-a-half years so far to build, [...]
NSN member Myrna Fletcher’s strawbale home is featured in this Oklahoma Daily article: When Myrna Fletcher decided to build a new house in Norman, she took an approach that was anything but ordinary: She decided to build it out of straw bales. Fletcher, 69, said she always knew she wanted a nontraditional house. So when [...]
Via Kottke, a designer for Navy Federal Credit Union makes the case for green architecture to keep employees happy: At the time, Navy Federal’s turnover rate for telephone operators surpassed 60 percent annually. Ebbesen’s primary task for the new building was to turn that around. But he had no corporate checklist for environmental happiness—until he [...]