[Greenbuilding] flower power, wheat fiber

[Alan Abrams]

<What is woodstalk?  I thought that happened in the 1960's, with a lot of
hippies with wild hair and illicit drugs? My older brother went to it,
and was never the same afterwards...   

<<We ended up installing 1/2" woodstalk (ah, those were the days, when the
woodstalk flowed like wine...) as an underlayment, and carpeting as the
finish.

Woodstalk was a high quality not-quite-structural panel manufactured (or at
least distributed) by Dow, using agricultural waste material.  From what I
can gather, their plant in (or near) Oklahoma was closed because of
insufficient demand--which is very weird because l'home de peaux was
stocking it, both in panels and planks for shelving, and Crystal Cabinet Co.
was developing a line of products using it for carcasses and door
substrates.  Apparently there is some backlog of stock, which seems to show
up on HD shelves from time to time...

-AA