Cultures all over the world have utilized cow dung for housing construction. I experienced this first hand at our base camp in Rajasthan, India. There is no smell even when minimally processed. It would be a good way to utilize the waste and develop new industries. The marketing would have to be the main focus though.
Danielle a.k.a. taureandevi.blogspot.com
Jeff,
I think you should compile all of your poop-related posts and publish a book. I know there'd be plenty of content to work with...
Not that that's a bad thing.
Just an idea. 
I would never buy such products. I could care less what those people on the Composite Panel Association say. My guess is that we'd be years down the road and it would be found that it was harmful in one way or another. Anyone remember lead paint? I'm sure there are people who can think of a lot more additives that turned out to be harmful.
The question isn't CAN we do something, but rather SHOULD we do it? My answer is that we should not.
They did a story this afternoon on NPR about a ski resort in Arizona that wants to make snow using "reclaimed wastewater" from the city of Flagstaff. Somehow, I can see walking on hardened cow pies much more easily than I can see skiing in reclaimed human pies.
Seriously - we eat organic food that's been grown with composted manure...heck, I gladly spread composted manure on my own garden. I'd be much more afraid of the chemicals it would be finished with than I would of the dung itself.
(though I'd rather see us return to a sustainable agriculture that doesn't create vast amounts of bovine waste to begin with...)
I'm with Brian in that it's a "can we" versus a "should we" idea. No one seems to care about what will happen to all them critters that feed on poop. Isn't there a chance that we could mess up their eco-system? We are in tune with thinking about the downstream consequences of our actions, but poop recycling could have upstream ramifications. Will the poop-eating bugs seek nutrition higher up the food chain if we eliminate what we call the waste stream? It is a question worth considering.
If you don't want to use it for making hardwood floors, you can use it for power!
They're building a $10 million cow poop powerplant in Texas.
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One of the main points of the article that Jeff is referencing is that pooboard is actually stronger and more resilient than wood fiber board. The fibers in the poo are woven more tightly. Seems to me this would be highly desirable in underlayment, you could put a wood laminate floor on top of pooboard and cover it up. The real question is whether it expands and contracts like woodfiber boards. IF pooboard doesn't expand and contract as much with changes in humidity, then this could be the end of squeaky floors.
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