Tim Peppin's experience as a carpenter on a large housing project convinces him that there is a better way to build homes.
"The more I looked critically at our buildings, the more I came to realize that almost everything conceivable was wrong with them; the methods, the materials, and the product itself. Our buildings are garish energy pits, soulless, anonymous, toxic and permanent scabs on the land.
...HOWEVER, there is another way to build, one which does almost everything right. The buildings themselves are naturally efficient, they can be incredibly cheap, and they outperform many conventional materials as fire retardants, as insulators, as sound barriers, in their ability to bear loads and stresses, and in the feeling they give their inhabitants. They use natural, non-toxic, degradable, locally available materials, many of which are a surplus or by-product of other industries."
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