piper: decoding healthy & regenerative design
Jul 17, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
Thirty years ago, out on the Carrizo Plain just east of San Luis Obispo in central California, 30 or so natural-building enthusiasts met at a deserted motel to explore the formation of a California…
Beth CochranHost
Turco SimsGuest
Ann EdminsterGuest
Miles TaylorGuest
Massie BurkeGuest
Bruce KingGuest
Chris PrelitzGuest
Martin HammerGuestPamela Wadsworth GoodGuest
David ArkinGuest
Maurice BennettGuest
Cathy GregorGuest
And we sat in circles and we, Greg had very smartly said, I got this roll of butcher paper.
And so we took this three foot roll of white paper and just taped it to the wall like 60 feet down the whole wall.
And I remember being mostly Ann Edminister got up there with markers and we just start throwing out ideas.
Where do we want to go? What do we want to do? How are we going to get there? Is there a goal? Is there an end? You know, it's like brand new.
They were like the sort of a Trojan horse, psychic Trojan horse to give us back new friendships and community of a sort that we hadn't had before.
And it's grown and it's assisted so many people in their desire and endeavor to live a life more sustainably, especially related to housing.
I mean, whether it's the person who wants to just build their own little straw bale house or it's a professional who wants to make that part of their offerings, it's just expanded.
You can hand that book and it had all the test results that had been done throughout the different places on fire, on earthquake.
Give that to a building official and say, hey, this is not just, you know, the three little pigs.
And that group of people just synergistically just grew and got bigger and bigger.
And we sat in circles and we, Greg had very smartly said, I got this roll of butcher paper.
And so we took this three foot roll of white paper and just taped it to the wall like 60 feet down the whole wall.
And I remember being mostly Ann Edminister got up there with markers and we just start throwing out ideas.
Where do we want to go? What do we want to do? How are we going to get there? Is there a goal? Is there an end? You know, it's like brand new.
They were like the sort of a Trojan horse, psychic Trojan horse to give us back new friendships and community of a sort that we hadn't had before.
And it's grown and it's assisted so many people in their desire and endeavor to live a life more sustainably, especially related to housing.
I mean, whether it's the person who wants to just build their own little straw bale house or it's a professional who wants to make that part of their offerings, it's just expanded.
You can hand that book and it had all the test results that had been done throughout the different places on fire, on earthquake.
Give that to a building official and say, hey, this is not just, you know, the three little pigs.
And that group of people just synergistically just grew and got bigger and bigger.
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