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L.A. TIMES: Natural plaster advocates want to reduce cement in construction
By Jeff Spurrier
April 16, 2015 12:15 PM PT
It doesn’t take much to fall in love with a wall covered in natural plaster. One touch will do it. The surface is smooth as marble but warmer, more welcoming.
“It breathes,” says natural-home builder Jeff Rottler. “It creates an interior environment that is much more comfortable.”
Rottler is one of the directors of Tierra y Cal, a nonprofit based in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, that uses compressed earth blocks for building, “green” kilns for firing bricks and clay-based plasters and paints to cover walls. Besides working with local builders and the Guanajuato state government to cut air pollution from kilns, Tierra y Cal also hosts workshops teaching its methods to groups such as Engineers Without Borders.
