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Article: Family builds 'green' home using straw for insulation.
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- Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2007
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Byline: Dawn Schuett
Sep. 21--LAKE CITY -- Pink isn't the color of the insulation in the home that Paul and Sara Freid are building in Goodhue County.
It's golden, like the hue of grain fields at harvest time, because the insulation is actually straw instead of fiberglass or foam.
(Hold the jokes about the straw house, the three little pigs and the big, bad wolf -- the Freids have heard plenty of them already.)
They're using straw with other materials to construct a "green" home, one that's environmentally friendly and energy efficient.
"We wanted to build our house and feel good about it," Paul Freid said. "We're doing all we ...