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Wind turbine will cut cost of power at straw-bale home – Guelph Mercury
By Hilary Stead The answer to how much money Ben Polley will save on electricity next year is blowing in the wind. Polley watched Tuesday as a group of volunteers
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Inventor matches modern economics with age-old building material – Home Builder Magazine
By Karen Dallimore Ontario home builder Ben Polley, president of Harvest Homes Ltd., believed that straw bale houses held promise but that the ancient concept lacked a modem approach to
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Home Alive! The House that Thinks, Drinks and Breathes – EnerNews
Staff-Writer Home Alive! is the world’s first prefabricated straw bale house designed to have the least environmental impact. The house is equipped with a combined wind and solar generation system
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Straw-bale homes are built to last – Muskoka Magazine
By Karen Wehrstein No Three Little Pigs jokes, please. People are building houses out of straw, and the houses are standing up in the face of wolves, wind and what-have-you,
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House of straw environmentally friendly – Guelph Mercury
By Peter Cowan Special to the Mercury Hillsburgh When Ben Polley designed and ecologically friendly straw bale home, his first priority was to make the house livable. “For comfort this
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A house built of straw – Smart Living Magazine
By Kevin Brooker Like most people, you’ve probably entertained ideas of one day building your own dream home. But if your fantasy involves a conventional approach to construction – like
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This house thinks, drinks and breaths – Toronto Sun
Staff Writer People who strive for a greener lifestyle are going to love the National Home Show’s model straw bale home. The 2003 National Home Show runs from Friday, April
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Experiences in Sustainable Living – Country Connection
By Rosaleen Egan Garneau Had the first little pig of the children’s nursery tale attended the straw bale construction workshop at Everdale Environmental Learning Centre before attempting to build his
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Home Alive! – Volunteers Construct an Environmentally Sustainable Future – Food for Thought Newsletter
By Amy Darrell Each weekend, during the months of March and April, volunteers from all over Southern Ontario and beyond are bringing their hammers and their enthusiasm to a warehouse