Welcome!

Welcome to the official blog of The Last Straw Journal (TLS), the international journal of straw bale and natural building.  The Last Straw Blog will constantly be posting selected articles from TLS to help you in your search for information.  Some of the articles you find here will be full-length straight from the issues.  Other articles will be partial as an incentive to bring you into the “bale-fold.”  In addition, original content will be posted as it comes alive on either our computers or yours, so feel free to make submissions!  We will be posting articles from back issues frequently so check back to make sure you are not missing anything.  We also plan to post a few articles from each current issue at they come out.  You will be able to find these new articles through the links on our front page.

One of the main reasons for creating this forum is to bring the content of TLS in to real-time so we can discuss what has been written.  We encourage comments even with graphics such as CAD drawings or pictures, or maybe even a video, if it helps get your point across.

If the information you find here is useful, just think what you will find in the print and pdf versions of the publication when you subscribe.  Back issues can also be ordered at The Last Straw website here.

As some of you may know, The Last Straw has fallen behind in it’s publication schedule. The quickest way to make issues available as they are published in the coming weeks and months is to post them in PDF format to the online ordering system on the TLS web site. If you want to switch over to PDFs for your subscription, just contact Joyce at <thelaststraw@thelaststraw.org>.  As of this writing TLS#59 is available in PDF format through the TLS online order system. The print version will be published and mailed as soon as possible. The TLS Team is working on #60. The TLS Editor is working on content for #61/Women in Strawbale and Natural Building, #62/Putting a Project Together, and #63/Commercial and Industrial Buildings of strawbale and natural materials.  We are trying very hard to catch up with the backlog and apologize for the delay.

Thank you for visiting. Feel free to look around.  We hope to see you back here often.  Happy baling!

Questions or suggestions can be directed to admin@thelaststrawblog.org.

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