Straw bales are a cheap building materials and they are great for insulation.
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Organic soils, one of the pillars of Québec’s food self-sufficiency, could disappear within 50 years. Fortunately, the application of straw or wood chips could regenerate these soils.
Farmers are setting fire to their straw and spreading air pollution across northern India.
Straw is cheap, good for the environment and an excellent insulator. So why don’t we see more straw houses? Unless we suddenly stop eating bread or cereal it’ll keep being produced anyway, and the excess…
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scientist in the field of renewable energy, Aston University
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