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Hello! We are Katie and Peter, and we live on the Bryant Bike Boulevard in Uptown, Minneapolis. As clean energy professionals, who are concerned about climate change, we have strong goals in building a low carbon-intensive house. Here, we document our experience building an Eco-Friendly Accessory Dwelling Unit Home in Minneapolis including navigating design and material decision making, city approval successes and challenges, and our community build process. This is the Uptown Strawhouse, also known to us Germanophiles as, Strohhaus am Radlweg.
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Natural materials, urban density, clean energy, and community build
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Our Best Attempt at Sustainability
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We're thinking about carbon as holistically as possible in terms of siting, building materials, construction processes, and on-going operations. Our goals for this building are:
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Follow our sustainable building adventure.
Subsequent pages give more details about the design, why we've chosen straw bale construction, and who/what resources we used. We want this build to not only be a learning experience for us, but also for the community. Some snippets are below and see the blog page for more)!
Presentations:
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