Earthships: self-sustaining homes for a post-apocalyptic land?
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2014
- On the desert mesa of New Mexico, miles from the nearest town of Taos (pop. 5,700), Star-Wars-like shelters rise from the earth, half-buried and covered in adobe. Called “Earthships” - brainchild of architect Mike Reynolds in the 1970s- they’re nearly completely self-sufficient homes: no electrical grid, no water lines, no sewer.
The Greater World Earthship Community, about 70 passive solar homes built from earth and trash on 633 acres, had a rough start; they were shut down as an illegal subdivision in 1997 and it took them 7 years to come to compliance. Though today, the county fully cooperates with Reynolds and his Earthship Biotecture operation to turn trash (tires, cans, glass bottles) into shelters and has even given them 2 acres to experiment with housing in anyway they like (they also provide their recycling).
Sixteen years ago, Tom Duke had just finished over a decade on the pro volleyball circuit when he bought a bit of land here with his wife and began to build a tiny Earthship the size of a storage shed. When their first son was born they built their dream house on the property, a two bedroom that, like other Earthships, collects rainwater, uses its water four times (the plants in the indoor greenhouse filter the greywater) and even processes its own sewage.
In this video, Tom takes us on a tour of his home, his original “Earthship survival pod”, the “nest” ($50,000 studio apartment), the “Simple Survival Earthship” (aimed mainly at the developing world), a custom home designed to feed a family of four (including a tilapia pond in the greenhouse) and the “BMW of Earthships”, the “Global" (aimed at the typical American family).
Earthship Biotecture: earthship.com
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24:00 - Back in the late 60s, my dad rebuilt the leach field for our septic tank. The ground was horrible red clay that was impermeable. So he dug the trenches deeper than normal, back filled with river stones, and then planted bamboo on top of that. So, that solved the problem of aspirating the septic water and we used bamboo for all kinds of construction material around the place. Passers by would stop and ask if they could have some on occasion. We never ran out. So, I am suggesting that Earth ship dwellers consider bamboo.
Genius ! 👍🥰❤️🙏🏻
If this was thought in the most harsh enviroment imagine what we could do with these principles and the rest of materials and technologies!
Best source of silica
If esrthship ppl made friends with regenerative agriculture ppl, the internet would be complete!
The irony of living in a house made of tire yet not having one when you have a flat is priceless. Great video thanks for sharing your experience, much love from Panama.
LOL but its pretty rad man. I imagine once you decide to live Earth friendly well water friendly really. You have to dig in your heals, especially if you need a spare. we should see how many jokes everyone can make.
caught me off guard. I got a good laugh
Watch them find a way to recycle their gas and then stop using/buying it 😂, they’ll run out and go “well shit”
Perfectly resourceful! In a society that wastes so much, this is an attractive home that leaves no footprint on the environment and blends into such beautiful surroundings. GREAT ingenuity!
Houses don’t have feet but can have tires like Motorhomes
This is the most awesome living project I've ever seen. It feels lke the way of the future. If only more people got into sustainable living. Our society would flourish is so many ways. When the pursuit of money for survival is no longer our main goal. Imagine what we can accomplish with our families, friends and loved ones.
It’s not. It’s okay for Third Worlders, but not for people who are FREE and value LIBERTY and quality of life. This is Communist nonsense
yeah and with what u think he bought that land and materials? with the dirty money
Basically let's all go live away from civilization (off-the-grid) and society will flourish? What kind of drugs are you taking, bud?
@@stevefagetaboutit8158 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@@alexxx4434 Or just where you are? Yes. The earth is clearly not sustaining our constant r*pe of her resources. Ffs, boomers...
These are not for the apocalypse. They are self-sustaining homes for the current state of the world.
@blake chattaway my Job is decontamination in nuclear power plants.
No it won't.
There is no air filtering no 100% water re-use so it's guaranteed that the inhabitants will incorporate radioactive dust.
@@maxmustermann5538 Plus this is set in a DESERT with less than 9 inches of rainfall a year. Add to that the soil at this location is of a very poor quality, high mineral content, not really fit for much of anything. So they are all going to starve. On top of that it's not all that far from a number of potential targets so all those glass windows will be the first things to go, people don't understand the power of the standard 400kt weapon widely used by the two major nuclear powers and most targets of any value will get two to four warheads> A city like Albuquerque would probably be targeted with as many as 5 warheads. Anyone who thinks that there's some sort of apocalypse that doesn't involve a nuclear exchange is fooling themselves.
@@emilkarpo youre right.
There are 14465 official nuclear war heads on this planet.
There have been 2000 test.
I assume 10 times the fallout then the test weapons.
15000/2000*10=75
So i would assume 75 times the background radiation of today.
Might not be that bad.
The main nuclides have caesium 30 years, strontium 28 years and iodine 8 days. The first day's will be very dosis intensive. After 80 days iodine will be mostly gone.
After 280 and 300 years the rest.
Probably after 30-60 years it will be okay to walk outside.
The rain and decay will cleared some spots to be liveable again.
Same difference.
Give over !! No matter where and how you live try to live for the day not anticipate nuclear horrors.
The solar panels at 4:20 are Uni-Solar panels. They are flexible, only about 15lbs and roll up like a carpet. I used to work on the Product Development Team designing, building and testing them. They work great, even in low light and they are installed without penetrating a roof. You just stick them down because they have a special adhesive on the back. We were the largest & one of the only companies making flexible solar PVL's...
yea but only give you about half the wattage of bigger full size panels when compared to the square footage they would take up
did someone say 420?
I would like more info on your company
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where can we buy them Company name please. Thanks and many blessings.
I wish I could like this 100x over! I am so inspired right now! This really is how the entire human race should be living, Earth Ships FTW!
It would be great to have a database taking the best from every project, where you can select what works best for your wallet, local resources and climate. This was great to watch
It’s called the internet. Or the library if you’re old school.
Special place in heaven for people like this who are helping to try and make this world better! Just amazing what they've done. Back to basics is what we need, less consumerism and more recycling this!
Google "earthbag homes"... they can be made to look as artistic or as normal as you want. There's a site with all kinds of plans.
@RORIK Bluetooth These hippies aren't a problem, the problem is city folk, cities are what need to be outlawed, we need a law that forbids more than 5 people living on an acre of land anywhere in the nation.
Bold words for the Yuppies amongst us who can afford the space, the time to build this. Living space is scarce in the cities but this is where the work is. One of the biggest challanges of this planet. And especially the people doing blue labor just cant afford this kind of lifestyle.
RORIK Bluetooth
Our houses today are not what people first built. You call these houses normal. They are the norm for you. You should seriously delve into types of homes and really learn and consider what types are best...with an open mind.
Costa Keith
I'm not a city person, but what do you have against cities and people who live in them? It seems that we need some sort of cities. We need some businesses. I'm against having all the Jack in the box and Chick Filets, etc. Too many of everything!
Out of all the educational and informational videos I've seen on RUclips, this is one of the best.
I absolutely love this video! I wish that this could happen in Florida where I live currently in a van and I'm so interested in living like this! Thank you for sharing. God bless y'all and your family and your community!!
"Apocalypse" (ἀποκάλυψις) is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling".
This is an awesome way to live imo.
I personally think these houses are an excellent idea both in function; water reuse, energy neutral, but also in style. I think they have a certain futuristic... elegance to them. I would live in one.
"absolutely no restrictions"
Woohooo... My dream, fully off-grid self sustained castle fortress just might be possible..... Sweeeeet....
mine too
I’m never going to be able to have one of these or a tiny house so am getting my normal house as off grid as much as I can. Solar almost done. Bottle wall will be next.
omg yes it is. You can recycle your greywater for plants, harvest raining water, have your own free power though solar panels, have an aquaponic unit, build anything you want inside a greenhouse for fish and everything you can grow, build grow towers or even vertical farming. If I had the money and time I'd do it right now anywhere
I love New Mexico.
@@nermainmerl6108 What if you could rent such an Earth-ship from a company that will pay you more in wages than all of your bills and costs?
These Earth Ship Houses are absolutely amazing! The fact that you can build a house with all of the creature comforts of a standard modern home that are of the grid, completely blows my mind. I need to invest in building one of these for myself. Thank you for sharing your home and all of these wonderful Earth Ship Houses! Great video and take care!
I think its only suitable in countries having lots of land such that land cost is comparatively low. This method cannot scale in countries where land is scarce
Love seeing a family living and growing in these homes, imagine the new outlooks and perspectives these children who may bring change to the ones creating the zoning & permitting laws making sustainability a more mainstream concept....
Quite a radical idea they are doing out here.... honoring the planet we live on & with
We have been experimenting with earthships (as you call them), in Sweden for over 40 years! There are many countries in the world doing similar designs, using different materials indigenous to their areas.
any links to some of them?
They are building without any restrictions. Hey, that used to be America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. I'm glad they got a taste of what freedom actually is. Now, do you think we could get that freedom back for the rest of us?
Jonathan Rogers Not if the Conformity Police has anything to say about it.
+Jonathan Rogers That's also the freedom of someone to build/sell you a house with a foundation built from sub-par materials, asbestos insulation, lead pipes, pipes on exterior walls that will freeze in the winter, shoddy electrical etc...
Do you think Haiti and Nepal would have had such high death tolls if they built homes to California code? Yes, inertia's a problem, but let's not pretend that codes don't keep people safe.
Who says you can't build a safe house without codes or permits? Codes are not about safety, they are there to protect the established building industry. You can build a house in California to code and watch it go up like a box of matches in brushfire; happens every single year.
And permits are simply legalized extortion; a town nearby (kind of a dump actually) wants $5,000 for a plans check fee, for example. It's BS. Having the right to build your own shelter ought to be a basic human right, not something you have to grease a dozen palms for first.
PDZ1122 "Who says you can't build a safe house without codes or permits?" No one, but it's less likely. Yes, bureaucracy is a problem, but I doubt those homes going up in flames would have a better chance if they were built to shanty town standards.
Thank goodness it's NOT a basic human right to build a house that's a death trap to your family and guests(watch Holmes on Homes). You shouldn't be "free" to build decks guaranteed to collapse, houses prone to black mold, septic systems that drain into your neighbor's well water.
Richard Snow But you should be free to build anything you want, on your own land that does not hurt or interfere with anyone enjoying their land. That's where it should stop. You can hang a sign on the door that people enter your house at their own risk. I build airplanes under the Experimental category rules and we can build and fly anything we like and it does not have to conform to FAA standards. We cannot use them for commercial purposes and there has to be a placard stating that it is an Experimental. Guess what? They don't come crashing out of the sky in droves, people aren't getting killed by the dozen by these deathtraps and there are over 30,000 of them flying all over the country, almost all out performing anything that you can buy of a production line. Airplanes, for god's sake! As if a house would pose anywhere near the same engineering problems or potential dangers as flying in a homebuilt airplane. Like I said - it's all about industry protecting its livelyhood and nothing else. Let me guess - you work in this industry?
this is inspiring. time to get some land
Not to mention when you put the leach field in for the greens to grow on the exterior of your house you are now producing oxygen
Yes I like this idea much better than traditional composting toilet. This is much more effecient but it's good to know both methods in case of emergency
@@loryndabenson2118 Completely agree
I saw Michael Reynolds, the creator of Earthships, recently speak. I had no clue he is 70 years old. He has so much vitality from living a physical, engaging, meaningful, and healthy life.
I've been following the _Earthship_ concept since I first picked up a _"Whole Earth Catalogue" was a twelve year old in the mid 1970s. I love how far they've come but also, how far the ideas learned have moved into other areas. Such as grey water usage, passive heating, etc.,. It's been a slow process but every time I lose hope in humanity, I see such places and my hope's are restored a little. I just hope we're not too late.
It's interesting to see the evolution and improvement of it each decade. The thing with the greenhouse being a passive heater is something we discovered with our conservatory. We'd open the door during days when it was cold but there was some sun and there'd be a blast of hot air inside. We also hung our clothes in there to dry to save on a dryer. They'd dry so freaking quick.
I lived and traveled in an RV for 4 years and I learned to see the world, our connection to it, and our "acceptance" of the grid as the only option in a WHOLE new light!! I FINALLY SAW THE LIGHT, LOL!!😂🤗
The Whole Earth Catalogue was a terrific inspiration. It started me on some building ideas, that actually preceded Earthships. The thing that puzzles me is why you never had the confidence to build without using tyres? Your system seems to make a lot of unnecessary extra work.
I'm Native American "Indian" & live on The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Indian Reservation in Ibapah, Utah & I believe that this will be the Absolute BEST WAY For all Native Americans Indian Reservation Communities to start to Get Back the Connection with Mother Earth🌏💚 does anyone know if the "Academy" has done any presentations OR have worked with any Native American Tribes? Tribal Governments would encourage & invest funds towards educating Tribal Members (& possibly others who would help to build them on Reservations & Educate the communities on how to). The American Country was built on the Genocide of our families & cultures, which is now is disharmony with the Earth. So Im wondering how to go about getting our relationship with Earth back in conjunction with this modern world.
Would be really awesome to see the same state government offer the same support to help the indigenous communities to thrive in their own land like these guys right here! : )
12:30 You could probably run a freezer for less energy if you put it in a room that is already chilled from the earth, and then pump it's exhaust heat through a canal through the house to bleed the heat of to keep the house warm.
Or that circular one that lady in Canada had. It opened from the top, she explained the cold air stayed to the bottom and didn't spill out when you opened it. Some way to incorporate that would be amazing.
@@KayKay114 Could you link to this somehow? sounds fascinating
your question reminds me if there's earth ships that have basements or cellars? i understand that this might require pouring cement but if a basement could be created as well as a cellar that would be a great addition to the earth ship.
@@KayKay114 We had a top opened freezer in the basement when I was a kid. A really big one, probably 1.5m3 on the outside of something.
You could also get a more efficient design by modifying the thermostat on a deep freeze to work as a refrigerator so the cold air stays trapped in the bottom, you could probably modify it to be better insulated as well depending on the where your condenser is.
This is amazing. The work that these people do really does give hope for the future. Thank you for posting.
I was thinking the exact same
Oh maila you're too sweet, hooman need to back to nature, rather than Capitalist trick😭
absolutely artistic design, this home is. he is wise the way he keeps reusing and recycling his water.
Early '80's in Oklahoma city We used a similar methodology to build dome homes. however, we sprayed foam on the interior of the nflated dome form to a thickness of 4" then a tapered shotcrete layered 6" at the base 4" at the peak, inside of that. the shotcrete was a bit troublesome since we were using 9 sack shotcrete with 1.5" steel fibers (no rebar When the shotcrete hit the surface, the steel fibers would form a durable lattice ). This kept the thermal mass on the interior and the insulation on the exterior. for garage attachments we used half cylinder inflatable forms. later in a commune I worked with community members using a more basic method of a rebar skeleton and masonry cement hand troweled in to the lattice.
These we buried in to hillsides .
The earth ship built to feed 4 was amazing. My favorite!
Great Video! Thank you for sharing.
I'm not a tree hugger nor a conservationist but this video makes off the grid living look like a reasonable option vs. the other videos I've seen of folks roughing it old school style. 99.5% of Americans are too spoiled to tough it out "off the grid" - based on the other videos I've seen in the past. This video, however, is a silver lining for the masses and a reason to be optimistic.
It is ROTGL - REASONABLE Off The Grid Living. I don't want to play with my poop nor work 14 hours per day carrying buckets of water 2 miles to my humble abode... to live OTG (and neither do the vast majority of the masses) and I still want my MTV! - I mean, Internet (Lord knows the kids CAN'T live w/out it). This video illustrates that LOTG can be a reality with reasonable effort and you can lead a lifestyle similarly to the one you currently enjoy (without living in a 5x5 shoebox proclaiming to others how much you absolutely love it). Kudos!!!
I am optimistic this type of "Lifestyle" can and will be implemented by a much higher percentage of folks... some want financial freedom, lower bills, smaller carbon footprint, get closer to nature, get the Gov. off their backs, or energy independence, etc. People will want it for a variety of different reasons, IMO. It appeals to a much wider audience.
I do think a lot of folks won't necessarily want to build the houses themselves (they'll just want to maybe oversee the construction so they have a clue as to what's going on and why) but they would be willing to pay for them to be built, IMO. It's that lazy thing again. :)
On a side note: I just came from a meeting earlier today with a very experienced dehumidification consultant and she explained to us how the US government was going to eventually require most all future home construction to implement a whole house dehumidifier due to new building codes. Houses are going to be built tighter and tighter (for energy efficiency purposes) and the codes will eventually require incoming (fresh) air. But, as we all know - the air outside your house is not necessarily cleaner than the air inside your house (think, living off a freeway or in the city)... Folks/builders will be forced to comply w/ the new codes... which means people will also be investing in fairly expensive air purification solutions, as well. None of us at the meeting particularly liked this news. It seems like it will be forced down everyone's throat. I'll end the rant here.
Anyways - Great Video! and something for me to really think about.
YoungBizWhiz
"I do think a lot of folks won't necessarily want to build the houses themselves (they'll just want to maybe oversee the construction so they have a clue as to what's going on and why) but they would be willing to pay for them to be built, IMO. It's that lazy thing again. :)"
I think a construction company that offered a service like a customized PC build would make a killing. Let people configure various options to their liking and see roughly how much it costs.
One thing that struck me was that church looking one. They could offer various themed ones as that would attract the masses rather than something that is purely utilitarian.
It's just waiting to be exploited. A state government with land and low population should encourage this. Guarantee low property taxes so people build apocalypse homes there. In the event of a recession, people could relocate there to ride it out.
I absolutely adore the concept. I would love to have an eco-friendly self sustainable earth-ship design home. It actually astounds me that everyone does not have one.
Get solar batteries and dig a well , and you are self sustainable .
Too bad pretty much all of the US has those pesky, "Building codes."
@@Cortesevasive Gonna need more than that to be self sustaining. Not even the pioneers in the west where self sufficient.
@@baneofbanes water food and electricity mate, thats all you need
@@Cortesevasive no
I would love to see someone take this knowledge to the slums of the world! Who knows, maybe I’ll graduate from Earth Ship school and spread the good word!
Just drove by your community. It is beautiful, and the Rio Grande Gorge was amazing! The rain just started pouring as I left a few min ago, I'm sure you are gonna enjoy it!
Johnny Lambert
I'm looking for my Kalamazoo High School Friend, Shelley Lambert, any relation to you? Thank You 🙏🏼
I loved your video Tom, I wish we could all live like this. I’m happy you and your family are enjoying your lives and doing your own thing your own way. I would love to do the same as you guys.
Thanks for the tour! I've watched Garbage Warrior a few times over the years, shared it to a few friends, it's very inspiring and instructive, so I'm glad to see those houses from up close and understand a bit more about how they work.
Just finding this in late May 2023, and this one video is such an amazing wealth of information. I would totally drink beer with, and pound tires for hours with this man. We need more of this. Cheers.
We simply need people who think this way. There will be many different ways which can be used but there is no substitute for having people who are capable of thinking differently.
Ironic how one has to beg for permission to build their house their way on their own property here in the "free" US of A ...
FJ80Coop Yeah because you don’t own your land in the US. You lease it. You own your home. You lease the land. Hence why you pay taxes, think of it as rent or leasing payments, to have the home you own on their land. Hence why they can tell you to do whatever they want or bye bye.
This is relatively free. Imagine the shitstorm if you tried to build one of these in an HOA community!
@Patrick B you pay taxes on your property. House or bare land, doesn't matter. One is just taxed way more than the other.
In densely populated areas, stringent requirements make sense - cities burn down less and collapse on others as people are required to be more careful with angry pixies and what's holding up their walls. Out in the sticks, people should have more leeway. There still needs to be something - lots of persistent organic pollutants and pthalates and horrible crap polluting the air and water we all share when some people are allowed to do absolutely whatever they want.
I agree that out there the city should just check to see if the groundwater is being polluted, or actualy dangerous stuff isn't going on, have a structural engineer guess if it will or won't collapse on everyone on a bad day, make sure kids aren't being exposed to mold/lead/asbestos/etc. and sign off on it, go check up from time to time.
@Patrick B Property taxes are assessed value of land and structure together. You pay taxes because it's a national unified insurance pool for things almost everyone needs but are not profitable or would introduce perverse incentives if privatized; things you benefit from even if you're 100 miles from the nearest town.
Totally awesome! As a Permaculture consultant, this is a perfect example of how to live in a healthy relationship with the planet!!!
This is all really amazing and it is awesome that there can be experiements like these. The only doubt I have is regarding the massive use of tyres as building material. Aren't there risks of the chemicals used in making the tyres leaking into the soil, the house and the surroundings eventually reaching groundwater?
In more wet areas, like when Mike took a team to help rebuild an island destroyed by a tsunami, filled plastic is added to reduce water interactions with the tires.
They overlooked one of Mike's biggest intentions when he started: heal the Earth. If the tires are filled with dirt and then sealed into walls (which for human health, must stay dry) then that is much healthier for the earth than having the tires in a big landfill, right?
The tires are already an issue.
The question is, where would you prefer the tires be retired to?
Mike thought it out and researched how to use "trash" to keep it out of landfills, and create a safer, more sustainable living environment.
Fascinating! I wonder how those earthship houses would work in a colder climate.
They are on a high mountain plateau, it freezing cold in winter
Yes, I meant to say how do they do in colder climates with less sun. Johan- right they would simply need a woodstove for extra heat, but would need less wood than less insulated houses.
ok...Ive heard them say before that the earthship can stay warm for up to 4 days without any solar heating.....so perhaps a rocket stove or something like that could be used
There are other methods than wood stove like geothermal heating and compost heating that can well be used in higher latitudes. Very interesting stuff.
They have been built and function well in nearly every climate and continent on the planet. (I'm pretty sure that excludes antarctica ha)
Check out the documentary "Garbage Warrior", it's on RUclips and the architect who started these explains the whole journey and process of the Earthships, including the legal battles.
Dude! I have no idea how I got to this channel, but what you guys are doing here is very, very cool. One of the first road trips I take in my new truck will be to check out these earth ships. Traffic here in CA is getting horrendous! While I own my own home getting to the beach is taking longer every day! I would never sell but would be awesome to have a getaway destination & learn some new skills in the process. Congrats :)
alright! sounds awesome! make your intentions happen!
I grew up in Orange County, and yeah, could not imagine that urban jungle now, lol!
jviffer - It's three years later since your comment; I was just wondering if you'd consider selling your house in CA? It's getting pretty bad out there, as so much has changed.
Dude!
Would be good to see schematics for the plumbing, cess pit, slope off. Think this is all great, well done
this is a long arduous process that he has invested time and money into so why would he pass it off to you for free?
Actually they show you a lot of info at the visitors’ center there.
It is probably some where for free. He wants everyone to know about this type of building.
This guy's so real and practical. THE FUTURE
Scot Kyle need that for the Coronavirus
My dream home! I actually had enough money at one point to build one but I didn't know about them then. It would have been lovely to have a self sustaining home.
wheres mike? probably in his penhouse in the city.
It's amazing how sustainable they can be in a desert.
One of the most interesting and informative videos on You Tube about alternative housing I've seen. I want to build out a camper van and travel the US in the next couple of years. This is making me think a home base, the RIGHT KIND of home base, could be exciting too. Thanks for sharing.
That is the first time I’ve seen someone react with such good humour to a flat tyre.
Cool to teach this! Great idea! Wonderful to have students! Great to know this! ♥️ I love the structure!
Oww.. Cynthia you're too sweet, well gotta thank fo yoo appreciation, Godspeed lady
Wonderfully informative video on the Earthship design and introduction. Thanks Kirsten! Thanks Tom! Gardens from black water: would love to see a real mini-farm or large garden growing out of the black-water cell. Or even a food forest.
Love this concept, well done - I'm doing something similar, these films really help with ideas and inspire me so thank you for sharing your great life
So many excellent ideas here that could solve so many problems we face in our modern wasteful world.
America... Where freedom is now only a word.. Hopefully men like this will be the ones to change it!
This is amazing, I would love to go to school here! Everyone should learn how to do this if we are to survive! wonderful video.
Yeah, but you dont want to go to school anywhere else in New Mexico, lol, trust me: "49th in everything!" That's a record they earned-- down at the bottom.
Lindsay call
great stuff. keep the earthship videos coming!
the vibrancy of a culture or place is measured by how excited parents are to show their children the culture, norms, and practices of it PLUS the excitement and desire of a child to continue in that legacy. Clearly the earthship people are doing something right. This guy is building a small home with his kids and they seem genuinely excited to show this channel how they live. Super cool
I love it. I am no hippie either. Conservative Republican. So neat. Been interested in these for over 10 years. Great concept.
commie pinko bedwetter
Mrlimabean01 ??? What
@@RileyJSW If the Left can't have a civilized discussion, or lacks facts to defend their position, they resort to name calling. Plus they get mad if OTHER people don't work and support their every need, while they do nothing but whine for more free stuff.
Atomicwedgie81 Oh I am well aware of that haha. I just don't think I've ever experienced one that jumped to the commie stance so quickly. Usually they get proven wrong at first.
dpeagles To me this seems like it should appeal to traditional conservative / libertarians. Living a life free of alot of constraints and being self reliant.
From design perspective, glass and tires I'd be cool with. Cans, not so much. I'd compromise and use more cement then.
or even more bottles.
Just render over the cans.
I attended an earth building course in the uk. Such hard work filling all the tyres.There was a woman from Guatemala on the same course.She said we don,t do it like this.The women use plastic woven sacks,comes on a tube ,you fill a sack, stack , fold edge over.Make em as big or as small as you like,drive re barr through em and adobe over em.The tyres are one way,there are others.
Love that it’s truly sustainable and low maintenance!
Amazing! Each house looks like a unique art museum. I'd love to see them one day.
Amazing, pure and simple. Do you see how smart his kids are? He has his priorities figured out perfectly.
I wonder if he was happy he got a flat tire, so he could use it to build his next house!
gojewla the city gives them free tires so they don’t have to pay dumping sites.
Ahhhhh hahahahahahahaha! Christ Be With You ! Thank You For The Smile And Giggle!
NICE ONE lol
Kelleymarie Jones
Being glad he got a flat tire was a joke 🤗
MOST HIGH was sending a message , No even tires will save wick man!.
I have been fascinated with these structures for years.
Many years ago, my family and I met with Mike Reynolds, went through the earthships and planned our earthship, they are SO impressive. Mike really is a genius and I wish more people would see the practicality of these homes.
@Providence Freedom No, we were building in WY, it gets so cold that the double wall would be too costly for us, but we still used a lot of the concepts in our bermed concrete house.
Instead of LIVING in beautiful homes like this, we merely exist in ugly boxes that we pay entirely too much for. I wish this was the norm.
Not me, I live in a can!
it's not really possible to live in a home like this in a metropolis like Berlin or NY though...
too bad. cause i would prefer having a home like this in Berlin, than the square that i have right now, where i spend about 30min/day watering my plants...
Chuck Cassel
What kind of can do you live in, a trailer home, container home, RV, van or car? I like the earthship idea, but somewhere other than the desert for me. I like cargo containers and log cabins. Quite a variety but I can make a cargo container look like a log home.
I personally would luv to learn how to live like this just in case one day mother nature decides to take a turn .. and I would know what to do... but instead technology is to important as of now too
why this has to be "for a post-apocalyptic US" ?? it looks pretty nice and serious for me
Probably because they look like homes from the early 1970's "Planet of the Apes" TV series.
"Post-apocalyptic" home is a wistful hope; when hundreds of millions of people have no groceries, they may be apt to investigate all possibilities ...
Probably because that is what it would take for the average first worlder to live like this. I mean he says there was a surge of people during the recession and yet in total there are only 70 homes or so after 3 decades. That includes some of the prototype dwellings. I think that for the masses you'd need something less ambitious.
Yandry Pozo whoever posted it wanted ratings and apocalyptic gets everyone’s attention. I would totally live in one, of course right now I live in apartment where the landlord doesn’t do shit, so those would be a huge step up!
Yandry Pozo
Probably meaning when times get too tough for most people in the near future, you can live in one of these self sustaining homes.
I've got a question about the tires--rubber tires can have toxic chemicals like pthalates and heavy metals like lead and zinc in them, and I haven't seen a ton of data on whether they can safely be used for habitable constructions, especially habitable constructions with recycled water. Anybody know if you have any way of measuring or testing that?
This is the most hopeful video I've seen in a long time.
Outside it doesn't look like much, but it's actually quite amazing. I live in SoCal and this is a financial dream.
Should say "economical dream"
Hahaha... ugh, yeah, I grew up in Tustin, dont I know!
Actually, once you leave California, everything will look like a bargain in terms of what you can get for your money!!
grate job ,wonderful idea and more in these days when everything is getting really expensive and hard to get .Excellent concept .Congratulations and thank you so much for sharing this video .
Me in 2014: Lol dude... Seriously
Me in 2020: F#%k!
I'm going to begin research so that I may one day build my own house just like these ones
Oh WOW WOW! WHEN CAN I BUILD ONE! 👷Thanks for the awesome video, I'd never heard of earthships before! Thanks for introducing them to me!
Awesome!! So glad to see this work continuing in Taos!! I'm a humble handyman and I've read all three of Mike's books and I'm ready to build! Just need land... and lots of money!! Too bad it's still too far ahead of it's time to be affordable to poor folk, who need it the most.
This channel
You will be the people to help those that move out from the cities that are realizing there is more to life than what we are finding out right now.
Living in those spaceship homes is a DREAM and my heart yearns for it
Oppenheimer Ranch Project sent me.
Thank you for sharing!
I love this guy and his family! Love Mike Reynolds too, the braveheart who started all of this!
You are amazing Kirsten. Absolutely, amazing. ❤❤💯
I think the principles behind these building could (and probably should) be easily integrated into standard building techniques.
I think that's kind of the intention, and they are at the forefront by experimenting.. creating "learning models" for when the mainstream lagers catch up, lol.
I love it! Have been trying to live off grid for a couple years. Got some ideas here, thanx. Liked, subbed.
I would Love to see this updated!!
What an awesome project!!! Fascinating!!! 💚🙏🏻🌎☮️☘️
Freaking Amazing!!!! Love these talented people!
So some lawyer who lives miles away in a mansion in the main part of town went through the trouble of kicking people out that never ever bothers him.
Yup, a attorney. Someone should take care of this guy in a mafia way.
I remember when it happened in an earlier documentary. It wasn't just the lawyer backstabbing them, it was the local government / county legislators. They basically had a real Reagan-Approach during the 1980s and early 1990s. Some new people got elected and made waves for Mike. They even stripped him of his archetect license as well! He had to jump through a lot of hoops to get the legislators in state congress to ok the EarthShip design.
dinnerandashow there's a reason attorney's don't return calls from their clients
***** the large home building concerns and subcontractors do not like concepts like this, and they have deep ties to the local administrators and regulators
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I agree, that's when I go to build my own house. I'll not build it using some big contractor outfit like this one guy I know did.
He was responsible for Re-zoning the entire area from mining and agricultural to a frikkin' Sub-division! :(
What an asshole.
dinnerandashow Politicians and lawyers wants to make a case out of nothing to make a name for themselves at the expense of the innocent people who wanted REAL FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE. A politician and lawyer depends on the money given to them (or even stolen by them by making a non-case a case) in order to make themselves famous and making a name for themselves and make headlines to acquire more clients, and campaign funds for the politicians who are in the pockets of greedy corporate entities in control of the U.S government. And all of these AT THE EXPENSE OF THE INNOCENT AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO ARE INNOCENT OF THEIR FAKE CHARGES ALL BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO MAKE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES TO MAKE THEMSELVES FAMOUS AND MAKE HEADLINES AND MAKE MONEY OUT OF IT EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW ALL ALONG THAT WHAT THEY ARE DOING, THE POLITICIANS AND LAWYERS THEMSELVES, ARE ALL ILLEGAL AND OUTRIGHT CRIMINAL!
I LOVE the 4 person house with all the plants!!! I want it!!!!
I love these homes, I’m 66 years old... I really wish I could afford one... I live in NM and this looks wonderful... I just can’t say enough ❤️☮️👏🏻
Lived in one for a year and I felt sick from the off gas. There is a huge debate regarding this issue, and when you wake up in your hot earth ship on a summer day and if you don't have the air flow venting or if there is a lack of breeze, the off gas from the tires used inside the walls does seem to be effecting health in major ways. Especially as the planet heats up. They say, well the tires off gas only for a while then stop, that is bullshit. In my year renting an earthship, i threw up yellow bile first thing in the morning several dozen times when there was high sun and heat. We did an experiment with some really old looking furnature made of some left over tires on the property, baking for YEARS in the sun (to see about the off gas). We put a tire chair into the little studio room seperate from the house, and within just a few hours, that entire room reeked of tire, and the gasses made us both vomit. THESE ARE NOT SAFE HOMES TO LIVE LONG TERM IN. THEY MAKE PEOPLE SICK.
+Missy Moonwillow Earthship Biotecture has posted a page on off-gassing, but I think the bigger point is that this type of architecture can be duplicated with other materials. I've read of people using earthbags instead of tires, but really one could simply duplicate the idea of reusing water so many times, of building into the earth, of combining a garden into a home, etc.
+Missy Moonwillow tires are a shitty bldin material
+Missy Moonwillow Anything made from a petrochemical product will always off gas, thats how it slowly allows itself to breakdown and decay to become earth again, which is a natural process.....tires just take longer than other materials.
+Missy Moonwillow Iv thrown up bile and I am sure it had to do with anxiety. Were you suffering from depression at the time?
+Missy Moonwillow that's pretty serious.. of course the earth is not heating up, the climate is changing, colder in places, warmer in others.. which is totally normal. People freaking out that the climate changes, is ridiculous, of course it changes, if it stopped changing that would be odd. There have been massive climae extremes in recorded history, the man made climate change scam, can be seen in what it suppresses, and all gore showing his chart that had co2 going up AFTER the temp rose, but presenting it as the reverse.. it is terrible how easily people are taken in.
Even with man made climate change being BS, we should of course embrace self reliance, respecting and living with the environment. That is something the established power holders so not want though, they don't want people re using bottle s and jars, the want them driven to a bottle bank, people paid to drive the bottles away, then paid, with fuel suppliers paid, to melt down a bottle, then make it into another bottle! Notice how every "fight co2" campaign, always has the need for people to be paid and money generated...
That point about the tires resonates the moment you say it... tires in the heat, that does sound like something that would do what you say. How is this not more reported? what did your landlord/lady say when you told them about the house making you sick? have you gotten your health back to normal now?
How the hell does he not have a spare tire, he can deal with a giant snow storm in new mexico, but a flat tire sends him running home...
This is so amazing! I have to figure out, if it is legal to build one in Germany too!!! Awesomeness at it's best!
C'est tellement inspirant! J'ai trouvé ce que je veux construire!
This is awesome. Inspirational. I do little things like water harvesting, but what you have here is like a dream.
Building codes are a terrible limitation to natural rights IMO.
I'm sure its different from county to county etc. Based on the whims of whatever bureaucrat you're dealing with.David Hestrin
+Meredith Goerlich Yep, they gotta keep us slaves in check and all on the same page in the planet-wrecking-for-$ agenda
Right because of property values based on nonsense? Not my problem. Go live somewhere else. Stop trying to control people.
All that from a few comments huh? If I was your neighbor, I'd consider investing in fifty pink plastic flamingos for the front yard. Those are good for property values right?
+Jake from State Farm That sounds like the tackiest neighborhood in the universe. I don't think you have to worry about property values, pal.
He speaks so much about "permission/permits". Think of how asinine that concept is. You need to get permission from someone that doesn't produce a damn thing in order to produce something on your own land. And then you actually PAY for that permission!
Taxation is theft
That's because it's not really your own land, it's land you are basically renting from the town it's in. If you are paying property tax on a chunk of land to the town you live in, well that's a clue it's not your land. Therefore, the town has say about what you build on it and how you build it.
I'm not saying I like or agree with it, I'm simply saying the land isn't really yours.
thuggery
AMEN !!!
My first thought also while watching this! 'Permitting' things on your own property wanting to do your own thing is nothing but greasing someones palm. It's theft, plain & simple.
So cool! Calling it "post-apocalyptic" is obnoxious as it is a lifestyle we should all consider for our health and the health of the planet. Absolutely beautiful 'earthships'
Nothing less than amazing!!! Enjoyed watching the video.
I love all houses but my favorite is the one with a lot of plants
God, I love your channel.. ^^' Architecture is fascinating....
"Plants can form a significant Space of Love for a person if there are many of them. If they are different and a person communicates with them, touches them with Love. All together they can create a significant Space of Love for a person, beneficially influencing the Soul and healing the body." Anastasia "Ringing Cedars of Russia"
I allready feel the joy, just by watching this...!