Michael Burchert
@michaelburchert.bsky.social
🇪🇺 Educator, Speaker, Builder, Activist. Regenerative construction 🌳🌾🥦♻️. Fixing mistakes and bad habits in the 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...
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...
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I have been working through @parismarx.com ’s guide to getting off US tech, slowly because I am so deep into the Apple world, but today’s events just gave me a big kick in the butt to get it done. disconnect.blog/getting-off-...
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
disconnect.blog
January 3, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I have been working through @parismarx.com ’s guide to getting off US tech, slowly because I am so deep into the Apple world, but today’s events just gave me a big kick in the butt to get it done. disconnect.blog/getting-off-...
* 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
* your fossil heating, fossil mobility, fossil plastic wrapped lifestyles keeps societies hostile to the worst gangs / people on this planet.
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Die Luftangriffe der USA auf die Hauptstadt Venezuelas sind ein Bruch des Völkerrechts & gefährliche militärische Eskalation.
Die Bundesregierung muss das verurteilen & sich unmissverständlich ggü. den USA für Deeskalation, Einhaltung des Völkerrechts & Achtung staatlicher Souveränität einsetzen
Die Bundesregierung muss das verurteilen & sich unmissverständlich ggü. den USA für Deeskalation, Einhaltung des Völkerrechts & Achtung staatlicher Souveränität einsetzen
January 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Die Luftangriffe der USA auf die Hauptstadt Venezuelas sind ein Bruch des Völkerrechts & gefährliche militärische Eskalation.
Die Bundesregierung muss das verurteilen & sich unmissverständlich ggü. den USA für Deeskalation, Einhaltung des Völkerrechts & Achtung staatlicher Souveränität einsetzen
Die Bundesregierung muss das verurteilen & sich unmissverständlich ggü. den USA für Deeskalation, Einhaltung des Völkerrechts & Achtung staatlicher Souveränität einsetzen
We will examine the test candidates at the end of January (hempcrete 1 year exposed to weather).
Any predictions?
Any predictions?
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
We will examine the test candidates at the end of January (hempcrete 1 year exposed to weather).
Any predictions?
Any predictions?
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Paris is full of beautiful old buildings, but it was a cool, new construction project that caught my eye while biking this morning. The mass timber is super cool, but this combines a number of additional things that we can't/don't do in the U.S: First, it's a series of (4?) single-stair buidings.
December 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Paris is full of beautiful old buildings, but it was a cool, new construction project that caught my eye while biking this morning. The mass timber is super cool, but this combines a number of additional things that we can't/don't do in the U.S: First, it's a series of (4?) single-stair buidings.
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Surely that's the key message that needs emphasising again and again, against a tsunami of misinformation about protein. Protein experts without vested interests (in a powerful industry worth a huge amount of money) keep stressing:
"Nobody's truly, in our societies, deficient in protein."
"Nobody's truly, in our societies, deficient in protein."
No. 1 Protein Expert: Do You Eat Enough? With Prof. Stuart Phillips
Today, Prof. Stuart Phillips explains how protein keeps us healthy as we age, how much we really need, and gives simple advice to help you achieve it.
zoe.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Surely that's the key message that needs emphasising again and again, against a tsunami of misinformation about protein. Protein experts without vested interests (in a powerful industry worth a huge amount of money) keep stressing:
"Nobody's truly, in our societies, deficient in protein."
"Nobody's truly, in our societies, deficient in protein."
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Always striking to me how "range anxiety" is still part of our EV discourse, while images like these are standard fare for every catastrophe.
January 3, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Always striking to me how "range anxiety" is still part of our EV discourse, while images like these are standard fare for every catastrophe.
When I started building with straw, there were only a handful of people doing it. To put it mildly, universities had very limited interest in it. Now that is changing; #strawbuilding can no longer be ignored. But at the working end, there are still only a handful of people doing it. New papers list🧵
January 3, 2026 at 12:57 PM
When I started building with straw, there were only a handful of people doing it. To put it mildly, universities had very limited interest in it. Now that is changing; #strawbuilding can no longer be ignored. But at the working end, there are still only a handful of people doing it. New papers list🧵
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"Der deutsche Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz ist registrierter Nutzer einer App, die für Kinderpornografie, Verschwörungserzählungen und die Anstiftung zu Rassenhass und Gewalt genutzt wird."
January 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
"Der deutsche Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz ist registrierter Nutzer einer App, die für Kinderpornografie, Verschwörungserzählungen und die Anstiftung zu Rassenhass und Gewalt genutzt wird."
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Latin American Coups promoted by the United States
January 3, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Latin American Coups promoted by the United States
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In the UK more cereal crops are fed to livestock than directly consumed by humans. Poor feed conversion ratios mean much of this is not turned into food, which is very wasteful.
Shifts to plant-rich diets mean less agricultural land use overall → less risks to birds! (See post below)
Shifts to plant-rich diets mean less agricultural land use overall → less risks to birds! (See post below)
December 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
In the UK more cereal crops are fed to livestock than directly consumed by humans. Poor feed conversion ratios mean much of this is not turned into food, which is very wasteful.
Shifts to plant-rich diets mean less agricultural land use overall → less risks to birds! (See post below)
Shifts to plant-rich diets mean less agricultural land use overall → less risks to birds! (See post below)
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January 3, 2026 at 12:05 PM
The simple (split AC) heat pump in the straw bale insulated house from 1729 will be using ~9kWh today. Let's see if we can harvest that.
January 3, 2026 at 10:09 AM
The simple (split AC) heat pump in the straw bale insulated house from 1729 will be using ~9kWh today. Let's see if we can harvest that.
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Trump the terrorist warmonger rapist pedophile is illegally bombing the city of Caracas in Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Trump the terrorist warmonger rapist pedophile is illegally bombing the city of Caracas in Venezuela
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It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.
bloom.bg
January 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM
It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
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The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system.
We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.
We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.
We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.
We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.
January 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system.
We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.
We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.
We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump.
We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.
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In Germany 3 storey multi family homes are #strawhouse #passivhaus territory. This way building itself is 'green'.
January 2, 2026 at 11:56 AM
In Germany 3 storey multi family homes are #strawhouse #passivhaus territory. This way building itself is 'green'.
This could rescue the ICE car in the 30ies.
January 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This could rescue the ICE car in the 30ies.
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A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
January 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM
A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
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#Kharkiv.
Residential area.
A large European city.
My native town.
Russia attacks it constantly.
30 people injured, including a baby. The number can grow as rescuers continue working.
Russia must answer for its crimes. It won't stop on its own.
Residential area.
A large European city.
My native town.
Russia attacks it constantly.
30 people injured, including a baby. The number can grow as rescuers continue working.
Russia must answer for its crimes. It won't stop on its own.
January 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
#Kharkiv.
Residential area.
A large European city.
My native town.
Russia attacks it constantly.
30 people injured, including a baby. The number can grow as rescuers continue working.
Russia must answer for its crimes. It won't stop on its own.
Residential area.
A large European city.
My native town.
Russia attacks it constantly.
30 people injured, including a baby. The number can grow as rescuers continue working.
Russia must answer for its crimes. It won't stop on its own.
Increase in self-consumption of photovoltaic electricity in Germany.
Money that doesn't go into the pockets of fossil fuel polluters. Freedom from that, true freedom.
Money that doesn't go into the pockets of fossil fuel polluters. Freedom from that, true freedom.
Der Selbstverbrauch von Solarstrom ist 2025 in Deutschland auf 16,9 TWh gestiegen.
www.energy-charts.info/downloads/St...
www.energy-charts.info/downloads/St...
January 2, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Increase in self-consumption of photovoltaic electricity in Germany.
Money that doesn't go into the pockets of fossil fuel polluters. Freedom from that, true freedom.
Money that doesn't go into the pockets of fossil fuel polluters. Freedom from that, true freedom.
Weird how the attention is so low for this ultra important topic.
1 million signatures needed for a petition about LAWS TO PROTECT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND THE CLIMATE. There are around 450 million people in the EU.
Takes only one minute:
www.houseeurope.eu
1 million signatures needed for a petition about LAWS TO PROTECT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND THE CLIMATE. There are around 450 million people in the EU.
Takes only one minute:
www.houseeurope.eu
HouseEurope!
The European Citizens’ Initiative for Renovation.
www.houseeurope.eu
January 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Weird how the attention is so low for this ultra important topic.
1 million signatures needed for a petition about LAWS TO PROTECT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND THE CLIMATE. There are around 450 million people in the EU.
Takes only one minute:
www.houseeurope.eu
1 million signatures needed for a petition about LAWS TO PROTECT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND THE CLIMATE. There are around 450 million people in the EU.
Takes only one minute:
www.houseeurope.eu
straw house magic
Cold 🥶 but sunny 🌞 day, useful solar gains keeping our house at comfy 21 degrees C without any additional heating. The same glazing will be fully shaded in summer, preventing overheating.
Passivhaus and good design works in all seasons 👌
Passivhaus and good design works in all seasons 👌
January 2, 2026 at 4:35 PM
straw house magic