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Sheep’s Wool Insulation in Uber-Eco Camper
from Modern Camper It wasn’t long ago when nomads were roaming North America with nothing but the skin they could catch on their back. Same with their huts. Mud, sticks...
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A dumb home needs a Smart Wall
A But designing the walls for a dumb home is not as simple as simply adding insulation; you have to be smart about managing moisture and condensation. You want to...
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Sheep’s Wool: RV Insulation Of The Future?
When Kirkland, Wash.-based teardrop trailer manufacturer Homegrown Trailers wanted to boost the sustainability of its building materials, the RV maker did something innovative – it used sheep’s wool f...
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Smart Walls start with a Smart Insulation System
Archigram’s A Walking City, 1964: boundless energy & engineering anyone? For thousands of years buildings were made with a keen regard for nature and historically building science was intimately a...
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Sheep’s wool insulation provides pollutant remediation
Translated from airwool.com Increasing requirements for “low – emission buildings” (various building certificates with defined room air quality, especially with regard to VOCs and formaldehyde ) – but...
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Building Technology Uses Wool for Better Health
FORGET WALLS THAT TALK; BRING ON WALLS THAT BREATHE SAN FRANCISCO (April 11, 2017) — People are smart, and people breathe, but most of us wouldn’t think the same of...
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Kirkland Camper Finds Eco-Friendly Solution
A Kirkland camper manufacturer has signed an agreement with Havelock Wool to insulate all of its eco-friendly trailers with sheep’s wool instead of foam board. The partnership comes after Homegrown...
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Smart Wall Manifesto
The problem in today’s building materials market is not only large manufacturers, but consumer’s continually shocking inability to ask basic questions. By making low integrity products manufacturers h...
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New Wall System Developed Using Organic Wool Insulation
Originally published by the following source : Balcony Media Group(link is external) — February 28, 2017Unless otherwise noted, the content below has not been altered by SBC Magazine . People...
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Nature’s Choice For Home Insulation
NEVADA COMPANY OFFERS ALTERNATIVE TO TRADITIONAL HOUSING INSULATION—NEW ZEALAND SHEEP WOOL Kaleb M. Roedel is a Reno-based writer At first glance, the photo is unsettling: A child inside a newly...
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Insulating Homes With Sheep Wool
By Lauren Shanesy HAVELOCK WOOL IS PIONEERING THE USE OF UNALTERED SHEEP’S WOOL AS AN ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY AND RENEWABLE INSULATION MATERIAL FOR U.S. HOMES AND BUILDINGS Wool has been keeping both...
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Anyone interested in a solution to a huge problem?
We’ve spent enough time out of character – whinging and moaning about other forms of insulation. Admittedly, there was somewhat of a method to the madness as one must understand...
