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October 2007 naturalhomes.org asked the question "If
I were to invest in an eco-house I would buy a..." with
a choice of natural building construction types to select
from. The graph below shows the distribution of the World's
vote showing straw bale construction is the World's preference
for investing in an eco-house.
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Results from around the World
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Votes
in the Americas and Europe came from the following countries.
In the Americas: USA, Canada and Venezuela and in Europe:
UK, Spain, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Norway, France, Czech,
Finland, Poland and Germany. There were too few votes from
Austrilasia, Africa and the Middle East & Asia to present
meaningful statistics for those regions. The votes from Europe
and the Americas are shown below. |
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Results for the Americas and Europe
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The
results for investment preference have been combined with
the results from the survey
for building preference to identify any change
in attitude between the willingness to build and the willingness
to invest in a particular eco-house construction type. The
construction types cob, adobe, earthbag and rammed earth have
been grouped together as the single category 'earthen' structures. |
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Results from the Americas comparing
the willingness to build against the
willingness to invest in the different eco-house construction
types
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The
Americas prefer to invest in 'earthen' structures, including
earthship which is predominantly 'earthen', with a marginally
greater percentage of people willing to invest in 'earthen'
structures than the percentage of people who were willing
to build using 'earthen' techniques. In the Americas there
is a significant reluctance to invest in straw bale structures
compared to the percentage willing to build with straw bale.
If you are considering building a straw bale home in the Americas
the impact of this may be a factor to consider in the re-sale
potential of your home. |
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Results from Europe comparing the willingness
to build against the
willingness to invest in the different eco-house construction
types
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Overall
Europeans prefer to invest in straw bale structures
but with noticeably fewer people willing to invest in
straw bale structures than build them. If you are considering
building a straw bale home in Europe the impact of this
may be a factor to consider in the re-sale potential
of the home. However despite the lower numbers willing
to buy than build, straw bale homes in Europe are the
most sought after eco-house type.
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