Michael Burchert

The climate debate is overly fixated on high-tech geological carbon storage. This obsession neglects the massive, immediate leverage we have in the bioeconomy and resource-efficient construction. Bio-based materials are NOT inferior carbon sinks.

It's a very good feed. Important to support the voices of sustainable construction here on bluesky.

Case study: World’s Tallest Straw Building: ETC Hyllie, Malmö 🇸🇪 12 storeys high, 65 homes, and EcoCocon straw wall panels used around a CLT core. A different way of building is possible 🌱 via @ecococon.bsky.social

A bit of good old-fashioned individual climate action can’t do any harm.

"The buildings needed are predominantly low-to-mid-rise housing and schools in climate-vulnerable regions — the building type and the climate context where bio-based materials perform best." 7

💡Passivhaus top tip: change your MVHR filters when the clocks change (twice a year) It’s easy to remember and it keeps your ventilation system running efficiently.

Adding value to a heritage house by maximising its environmental performance. www.planning.nsw.gov.au/government-a...

A huge good news Monday - Lula defeats Bolsonaro in Brazil - Vukic is ousted in Serbia - London's Oxford Street is pedestrianised

„Solidarity is how fascism loses“. Act appropriately.

A big thing that Lula won in Brazil. Eat shit AfD, MAGA and all the other blown up by bots and tech bro 5% minority death cultists. People want sustainable living conditions.

Yes, & why shouldn’t critical infrastructure / civilian defence comprise part of the 3.5%? Have argued similar wrt home retrofit / insulation + electrification. Thermally protective homes backstop health & wellbeing - which in turn have a defence & economic function. Heat pumps = energy security

Auch wenig bekannt: Die Schäden an Infrastruktur, die durch andauernde #Entwässerung von Mooren entstehen. 👉 Im moorreichen Land Hadeln gibt es zB überall starke Straßenschäden, weil sich der Untergrund (im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes) in Luft (bzw CO2) auflöst. Alles sackt ab. #MoorMussNass

Is there flagship research and development on building with rapidly renewable raw materials #regenerativeconstruction at your university in 2025? pic: ecococon.eu Remember, this is a race.

The hemp-lime masonry blocks now had to weather outside for a year. There are not many options left for building in compliance with climate targets. Hempcrete (without cement) is one of the few. Because this is a race to zero, not a race to the bottom.

You’re saying that it’s bad for the survival of humanity to tell children for generations that climate-friendly and healthy building methods using🌾 straw and 🪵wood are bad, and that only climate-damaging 🧱brickwork is good.? Yes, that’s not funny.

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🧵

Saved before my wife tossed out. The international society for heart and lung transplant has the best conference tees 🤘 🎸 🫁

Friendly reminder that the global mean near surface air temperature will cross the + 2 °C line in 15 ± 3 years.

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We urgently need more plants in our diets and in our buildings!

For construction: ✅ We need: easy ✅ We need: cheap ✅ We need: abundant ✅ We need: massively scalable ✅ We need: entirely sustainable Straw ticks every single box. Concrete obliterates our needs by removing humans from the planet - no housing required by 2100 if we keep concreting over our planet.

What is your opinion? Mine: Sometimes hemp guys try to adverise their product vs straw building. That is inherently wrong because the real competition is the bad stuff. There is no this or that, we need both, but straw is abundant compared to hemp. Both are renewable materials, thats what we need.

Einstein's house was a #biobased House, for a reason. foto: Stephan M. Höhne

#tomorrow Natural Stone: Types, Finishes and Applications, Lundhs AS Free #CPD webinar 🗓️ Mon 26th October 12-1pm details 👇

If anyone in Brazil needs help making a decision, you can’t seriously elect anyone on this continent as president who takes their orientation from the current US, which is in the process of very successfully ruining itself.

A modern straw house is built with clean, highly compressed, otherwise completely untreated agricultural straw. You can plaster it for additional protection and features, e.g. airtightness. bsky.app/profile/mich...

25 years ago, straw wasn't even mentioned as a building material in the materials science courses for civil engineering at the University of Hannover. I wish that had changed by now, but I'm afraid that today, too, only concrete and masonry are covered.

Coming up on what may be the most important election of our lives so far here in the US. Get your ballots in everyone! This is the vibe: #vote #starwars #resist @timothysnyder.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Learn more about the latest and greatest in the building world, that is actually green building, by data: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms8V...

I wonder if a straw bale shelter (available, fast, efficient, circular, able to be made permanent without breaking the bank) hands on WORKSHOP for humanitarian purposes would be an event that you would travel to Verden, Germany for? Say for a week. I'd need a group of 15+ folks to make it happen.

Built by Nature starts from a position that industry can be a force for change, believing that the way we achieve a transformational shift towards a biobased built environment is by working closely with organisations on the demand side of value chain.

Had a young guy at the kitchen table today who bought a diesel suv for 8k because he could not afford an EV, he said. Just looked it up, EV lease is available from 49€/month. How is this related? Priorities, decisions, path dependencies, so important.

(Don't do this at home without a pro) Dear building physics folks, what do you see? This picture generated some heat on: www.linkedin.com/posts/la-mai...

You can't clean up plastic once it's in the ocean You can't suck up fossil carbon once it's in the atmosphere You can't (quickly) regrow a forest once you've destroyed it Destruction needs to be addressed at source. It makes no sense to just damage everything and try to fix it afterwards

Wir erinnern uns eben noch gut an den ersten linksradikalen Kanzler Deutschlands; Konrad Adenauer, der 1953 die Bodenreform im ersten deutschen Bundestag beschloss und damit die Geheimwaffe der Linken: Die 👻 Enteigung 👻 auf deutschem Boden vorantrieb.

Some (engineers) hate that I keep making these videos. So be it. Here you can see acoustic foam like @ the nightclub 😱 vs a falling apart (!) offcut of a straw insulation board, worst case scenario! Fires are always bad. Choose your surroundings wisely. Fossil fuel based materials ARE a stupid idea.

Der Rückzug ins Private ist ein allgemeines gesellschaftliches Problem derzeit. Ich behaupte es liegt an der derzeitigen Politik, die die Gesellschaft nicht an der Lösung der Probleme teilhaben lassen möchte. Wir werden mit falschen, fossilen Versprechen in die nächste Wahlperiode geködert.