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Sep 4Liked by Future Proof

Rammed earth is an exciting option. There are NZ standards (NZS4298 and NZS4299 not requiring specific design) and its not always necessary to use cement stabiliser. Steel reinforcing has high embedded emissions, but flax might do the job in a low earthquake zone.

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The free Sustainability Changemakers webinar link doesn't seem to be working.

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Kia ora Hannah, apologies - the link seems to have some trouble in certain browsers. If you copy-paste it into a new tab it should work!

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That’s a great photo of the sea lions. I wonder what photography competitions are going to do to combat the rise of AI generated images. Because I’m nearly sure it isn’t, but it certainly could be.

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Definitely not an AI image in this case! You might like this story from earlier in the year - a *real* photo got first place in an AI image contest 😆 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-this-real-image-won-an-ai-photo-competition/

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I love that so much. Gotta take the wins.

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