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Earthships: A House Made From Beer Cans Sparks a Movement | Short Film Showcase


people look at this and call it a Mad
Max compound
what the heck these people live like
this and a bunch of dirty hippies that
don’t know how to clean up the land wow
it’s weird they call it trashy world is
not going to build weird houses but you
know I’m not gonna argue with him and
like like I’m not going to argue with
the people dancing on the top level of
the Titanic before the iceberg crash if
people don’t see disasters in their
horizon you can’t convince them of that
they’re gonna have to see it on their
own and I’m just making life rafts right
nut
imagine living in a home that cost you
nothing baku imagine building this home
yourself imagine no utility bills
imagine earthships an Earthship is a
passive seller home made out of natural
and recycled materials the major
building component of an Earthship has
used automobile tires and earthships
power is generated by the Sun and wind
rain and snow is caught on the roof and
funneled into a sister heat comes from
the sky water comes from this guy sewage
can go back into biology I mean we don’t
need all these systems that men have
created
the first beer can house was made in
1972 and I found myself fresh out of
architectural school and I just said
well hell we build out of trees but we
don’t want to get rid of them and we
want to get rid of garbage why don’t we
try to build out of garbage it started
to be kind of a contrived effort to
recycle and has ended up the best way I
know of to be able to regardless of
recycling hey China Senna
hey you idiot I’m so sick of recycling
and sustainable and green and organic
their rhetoric things you know this is
just my opinion but I mean so many
people are so righteous why do you use
concrete why you use oil-based products
who cares I’ll use anything I can even
if it’s my mother’s down jacket I’ll use
anything to make buildings that show
people that they don’t need
infrastructure
the community set up to have about 130
homes and there’s probably 65 out there
ah the gonna work yes perfectly we moved
in in 97 end of 97 the airship had been
started when my partner and I bought it
and then we started building from there
I really had no idea what we were
getting into um I had seen his books and
I thought they were just absurd and I
thought we’d be living in the stack of
tires and I ended up living in a stack
of tires and you know showing you me
after living in a RV freezing to death
you know we thought we were friggin
homeless for a while with no job no home
none of this was happening and then we
ended up with this it was like heaven
I love living here I like that you have
to be very conscious living in an
Earthship conscious of what the Sun is
doing conscious of the weather
my sister is full right now but you’re
conservative you don’t take a half an
hour shower the planter is in my home I
live with my plants um I love that I had
a friend many years ago who when I told
her about the Earthship she said man
there’s just no curb appeal and I’ve
overheard them at bars saying oh yeah
the earthships those gopher people oh
yeah those people they live in gopher
homes it’s like yeah over here it is
I think tradition and culture you know
are nice they should be in magazines on
coffee table books but they shouldn’t be
in our way of evolution and they are
tradition and culture are two of our
biggest enemies in my opinion they stop
us from evolving
we’re not evolving fast enough roaches
and bacteria they’re evolving very fast
you know the movement that we need to
make on this planet in my opinion is not
going to go fast enough if we’re trying
to be palatable but then again you have
to be palatable where people are not
going to do it it was long and slow for
me to understand that what I like other
people didn’t like really whether this
product named this brand earthships
lives or dies is not really that
important I think the concept of
encountering phenomena of the planet for
deriving sustenance is going to catch on
I think people are smart enough to
realize that it’s very artistic I’m I’m
quite impressed it seemed very
comfortable but you know like inside
you’re reusing rather than recycles it’s
amazing you don’t have to do the whole
thing it seems it would catch on because
things get more desperate Scotto
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