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Michael Burchert
@michaelburchert.bsky.social
🇪🇺 Educator, Speaker, Builder, Activist. Regenerative construction.
That #strawhouse guy.
Fixing mistakes @ built environment. Independent #Bauwende construction revolution advocacy, english & german word salad, enjoy! https://linktr.ee/michaelburchert
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2026 is starting by blasting rain vs my garden earth plastered straw bale insulated 300 years old house.
Look how the earth is barely getting darker (wet). The drying potential is stellar.
We may talk about this in the short free #earthbuilding seminar on Jan 9th:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Blow-in straw seems to be getting traction in some countries. Can you see why? #strawbuilding #strawhouse #biobased #renewables Foto: bioblow.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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Keine Listen und Register von Personengruppen mit bestimmten Merkmalen jemals. Das betrifft uns alle.

Jetzt mitzeichnen: epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...
January 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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Biodegradability is not a bug, it's a feature.
The trick is to make it possible only when you want it to happen.
#strawhouse #strawbuilding #earthbuilding #timber #hemp #biobased #architecture
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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It's why he is threatening Colombia + Mexico. Why he bought elections in Argentina + Honduras. And interfered in Brazil's courts.

Latin America's democratic left bloc is the most principled opposition to Trump in the world, defending international law while richer + more powerful nations cower. 2/3
January 4, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking.

It exposes that much of the world has been cowed.

Most notable exception: the Latin American left.

That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3
January 4, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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The weapons of the people are the renewables, physics and know-how.
January 4, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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That's why most of us don't want to mix / contaminate #strawbuilding with business as usual materials. We want this to be compostable in a few hundred years, without harming the environment.
January 4, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Es gibt daher viele Gründe die EU zu retten, auch wenn die EU viele Fehler hat. Der wichtigste Grund ist der schlechteste: es gibt einfach keine realistische Alternative mehr. Die Alternativen sind US Anarchokapitalismus, russisches Scheißhaus oder chinesische High Tech Diktatur. Da wähle ich EU.
January 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Working really hard to be able to share something that far exceeds the literature in the next few weeks. Having read your work, it's not as natural (straw, hemp, lime) as we'd prefer, but it will still exceed what's been peer reviewed as possible and being here in the US is considered quite radical
January 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Honestly. Let's connect if you have something to share about best practice non-conform building, there must be something out there.
January 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Biodegradability is not a bug, it's a feature.
The trick is to make it possible only when you want it to happen.
#strawhouse #strawbuilding #earthbuilding #timber #hemp #biobased #architecture
January 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Cutting regenerative beefy drywall. #straw
Just like so. No fire started, no mouse habitat destroyed, no resource depleted.
June 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The wonderful @johnczulowskiburns.bsky.social has joined Bluesky! Do give him a follow. He's the architect who produced the digital models of our buildings for #FormFollowsFuel, which enabled us to calculate #embodiedenergy for each of them. Also the stunning cover image.

@florianurban.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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🏗️ the solutions are out there.
www.daikin.de/de_de/gewerb...
January 4, 2026 at 11:24 AM
🏗️ the solutions are out there.
www.daikin.de/de_de/gewerb...
January 4, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:12 AM
The weapons of the people are the renewables, physics and know-how.
January 4, 2026 at 10:05 AM
A pleasant morning, all traces of human activity have briefly disappeared.
January 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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* your fossil heating, fossil mobility, fossil plastic wrapped lifestyles keeps societies hostile to the worst gangs / people on this planet.
Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.
January 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Ist Friedrich Merz der schwächste Kanzler aller Zeiten.
Hier die offizielle Mitteilung des Bundeskanzlers zu Venezuela auf einer offiziellen Plattform der Bundesregierung, niemand muss X zitieren

www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktu...
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz erklärt zur Situation in Venezuela
www.bundesregierung.de
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Wenn mich eins wirklich ankotzt, über alle politischen Grenzen hinweg, dann ist es Feigheit. Insbesondere Feigheit von Leuten mit Macht. Wer sich einer Wahl stellt und ein demokratisches Votum bekommt Menschen zu repräsentieren darf nie feig sein. Wir erleben leider ein Europa der Feigheit.
January 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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The only people that can stop Trump and the GOP are the American people. But their window to be able to do so continues to close.
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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And most importantly, your biggest emissions comes from your bank account and super/insurance if you are not yet with a sustainable institution. Maybe now is the best time to do the switch! Any 1000$/y in a "normal" account means investment into FF equivalent of a flight from NY to Seattle.
January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM