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EPA Grant Number: SU833188
Title: Enhanced Sustainability through Straw-Bale Construction:
Education-Research Building Demonstrating How to Live Sustainably in the Midwest
The Ball State University team is designing a straw-bale building as part of an integrated water-wastewater-energy-building-landscape-education system that demonstrates how to live sustainably in the Midwest. It is designed to be an immersion learning, research, and demonstration project to promote sustainability and its public acceptance.