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Massie Burke

Massie Burke

Director of California Straw Building Association; natural materials specialist and structural engineer focused on biobased and carbon-sequestering building methods

Jul 17, 2026

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Raising bale: Building a straw think tank

Jul 17 · 31m

Chris Prelitz
Chris PrelitzGUEST
22:20
So yeah, no idea that it would be this, uh, excited and, and especially I'm really s- excited about all the young people that are coming in.
Massie Burke
Massie BurkeGUEST
22:31
We do have a long tradition in Casba of occasionally making up awards when they are necessary.
Massie Burke
Massie BurkeGUEST
22:39
But when, uh, David Arkin basically plunked Casba in my lap [laughs]
Beth Cochran
Beth CochranHOST
22:47
That's Massie Burke, the current director of Casba.
Massie Burke
Massie BurkeGUEST
22:50
So David and I co-directed for a bit, uh, and then I took over.
Massie Burke
Massie BurkeGUEST
22:54
Um, and you know, I had my ideas about what I, how I wanted to help Casba grow and whatever.
Massie Burke
Massie BurkeGUEST
22:59
And then the cosmos tells you what you're actually doing.
Massie Burke
Massie BurkeGUEST
23:02
Um, and the cosmos made it clear to me a couple years in that my job is actually to mediate the generational transition.

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