Garbage Warrior - homes made of your garbage!!
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Michael Reynolds, an architect from New Mexico, has an upcoming doc on the Sundance Channel about some pretty cool sustainable living. Here he is on Colbert talking about his projects and showing off some pretty rad homes.
I don't own a home yet, but a little more research into this, I'll probably settle down in a good 'ol plastic bottle home in my native San Antone!
I don't own a home yet, but a little more research into this, I'll probably settle down in a good 'ol plastic bottle home in my native San Antone!
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So these houses aren't exactly made out of trash, but they are made out of a material that usually becomes trash. I wonder if there isn't a great collaboration to be made between these guys and Michael Reynolds!
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have seen the film at the Edinburgh Filmfestival last year- it's brilliant and deserves a much bigger audience.
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I don't think the comedy treatment of this issue would work though. I'd rather prefer cuts from the original film about the earthsips.
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love it!
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This film is Fantasitic! Please watch it if you get Sundance channel or whatever way you can. It is much more than a story about building sustainable houses out of trash. OH... and if you have not seen it already, take a look at our very short pod on the same subject. "Bottles Cans and Tires"
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i like earthen wall or rammed earth and also SIP because of the strong thick insulated walls.
If you build in the ideal location you can reduce your need to heat and cool the home. This is very important.
I also like trailers with slide-outs that use all forms of alternative energy to help reduce utility costs.
My favorite aspect is green roofs. This I believe is the most important aspect of sustainable design because of the energy saving features. -
liked it! GL
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kickA$$! thanks for cluing me in twodee!!!!
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YES! This IS the solution...no questions asked
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Anyways here is a review I wrote last year about the film when it was shown at the Edinburgh international Film Festival:
Garbage Warrior
Oliver Hodge / UK (England) / 2007 / 86 min
The film is about Michael Reynolds, an architect in New Mexico. Well, almost! Whilst the film starts like a typical character study of this environmental rebel, it later on broadens out to include a little bit more about the “earthship”, his invention of self-sustainable housing. Amazingly, the visionary takes on planning authorities, lawyers, senate, extreme climates, the architects association, funding crisises, and emergency housing tasks after earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Impressing with his hard physical and clever intellectual work, his passion, enthusiasm and humanity, he founded not only several earthship communes in the desert and mountains of New Mexico, but also builds prototypes all over the world, such as in Honduras, Bolivia, France and even Brighton, where he met the film maker Oliver Hodge on a UK test site.
And whilst the documentary is beautifully filmed, it seems to focus at the start too much on one man; whereas his whole collective is digging, stamping and building away with and in the recycled rubbish material. The film is inspiring the audience to not just go and see an earthship, but to practically do; to build one and live in it as well. So it’s quite a powerful piece then.
rating 4/5
More info: http://www.earthship.net/
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