it feels really good feels really solid and there's this sense of solidity living inside an earthen structure there's this sense that. we can have to something stable. and cool in kind of see the little different than we can get the house conventional. materials. because a little more connected to the outdoors as well you know when you're indoors but it's quite comfortable i think to like a few people can my companion you know being in a suit to whom or in a sense to you know a sweat lodge like once you're inside of it you do feel much it you feel needs are being taken care of. as you say and you feel the solidity you really feel careful but at the same time it goes in both directions so you need to take care of your house your house to take care of you properly.

we just close the skylights which are basically the hut during the day evacuated three of the sky lights and because it's no night time we just want the heat at this time to stay inside the house every night which is close to the close it's retaining the opening to release. we used tires for the structure of the building we call them. radially reinforced rammed earth bricks as what they really are the tires are radially reinforced with steel for being tires but that works perfect for a radially reinforced brick. full of pounded compacted earth they become compression bricks and they're laid just like bricks and they'll last forever. termites don't eat em they don't rot and their tremendous structure and

tremendous thermal mass and thermal mass is what you want to hold temperature mass holds temperature and that makes it so that the building stores heat for the winter and the heat is brought in with the sun. absorbed into the walls and given back when you need it most at night. so two buckets just went to. this point you're not going to be really wailing on this thing yet because that's. what we're going to do is i'm going to use a tool to push the material into the sidewalk at the time.

i feel welcomed everybody here and welcome you not just this session but to a global family that had this from all over the world students from eight different countries speak english. ok so this is celeste. my friend and she's from portugal i come from slovenia my name is mario. i was born in greece and many moved to put. two years ago it was kind of our dream and then we got slammed with this super storm and everything changed you know three hundred sixty degrees night in day so there were twenty just came galloping so you guys are grateful i'm sure you know we are there to not think we're ready you know just go back there to help rebuild them from their ground.

from everything that happened recently from puerto rico to mexico this house this type of house is very good because it's resistant to hurricanes and as well as quakes also if we think of california and the wildfires that they have because you have the tires are protected it's all covered with a berm this house could also protect you know from fires in the future. so here's a simple survival it's the first one that we've built ever and since then we have built several all over the world. come on you're welcome. so these houses are called simple survivals because the systems themselves and also the way that they can be built should be easy for anyone in the world with a set of plans and basic training to be able to build the systems themselves are

sustainable the same as in all other us ships but they're very basic and they have a lower cost in terms of disaster relief the electrical system in this house is also very good for traveling because this is our storage system which consists of a car battery and then it has different fuses which can be found anywhere in the world and also an inverter it works with a flexible solar panel which is on the roof which you can also travel with so with two bags basically you can go with your solar system. so all the water that's being used in this house comes from the rain it's being harvested on the roof and then it's getting stuck in systems which are behind the house and then from there it comes to this water organizing module which is as i was saying very simple and i'll show you exactly how it works so let's say if you want to make sure that

you have enough water in the morning for the shower when you come back from work let's say you basically open the valve that activates the pump and they were hoping. that basically that it was full so one thing it's full is just overflows but because we have plus a look around the want to get through cycle by this month again and. this is the water use is it all the rainwater yeah our water it's parasite reminded me of his pants over there one of the n.p.r. i mean everyone goes through several filters that screen people. so this this into the houses where the black water is. so you can see it's really changed. the landscape out here where it's sagebrush is

the natural environment here but as we are containing the sewage and and using the plant starts to process the sewage. we create our own little oasis here. in the toilet is flush the pulp panel sucks up the water and flush the toilet with the cleaned that used water so that's reusing the water the water is used for washing dishes then the water is used for watering the plants and it's cleaned up by the plants then the water is used pumped back to flush the toilet. then it goes outside and does landscaping so that's a conservative four time use of water and as you can see the sun's coming in it's winter the sun's coming in and heating the house and being stored in massive walls that absorb the heat and then give it back and then the electricity of course comes from photovoltaic panels from the sun and the house is built using bottles and

plastic bottles and kay and. i first learned about michael reynolds when i was in a college class and someone mentioned you're talking about the environment and immediately the idea of building with tires and repurpose materials resonated with me i thought that maybe if you could create your out self-sufficient power and be disconnected from the greg you could create your own political and social power that would not be so heavily influenced by corporate or government and trusts about personal freedom. and you see i even dug it out a little bit actually put some more of you do i really do a little house bag to get all. this started other. i moved here strain of school in ninety ninety two. and.

started working there is existing already. community. ships and so i started working up there. just doing basic stuff mixing in. entry level. this is. the first earthship community this is an extreme say that no one thought it was ever possible to build on a site the state demonstrate he built anywhere in the world it would be impossible to believe him ashot house on the site why because to level the pad that you need for the foundation you have to dig so far back into the hell that you have to do a massive engineering retaining wall hold it back these buildings just tech and the hell itself and there's no power and water systems up here the cost to get if you

didn't get you in our ship how would you power get water and sewage with a conventional house there's no way to get that infrastructure on this extreme slope and. well i stayed because. i knew i was really into the idea of living. sort of taking care of myself. and i think i was initially attracted to like. the idea of homesteading you know creating your. own stead and doing generating everything from that and so this idea is very much like that. idea that only. really attracted me to be able to control. my own power my own he my own water you know to be in control of all of that and to not be reliant on any. outside source for any of those things i'm pretty into the educational side. enjoys students.

alexian when. they go on and do after they're here. all the different routes so many different projects from the county students i mean a huge variety. so the ken rudin cameroonian orphanage made me part of their orphanage and part of the status and then go and i went back a year ago and i built the first house of the center with different volunteers most of them who i met through biotech chip and we started building the house and we train local volunteers. and with the children also from the orphanage were participating and so it was just a beautiful experience where we all shared you know knowledge and how we wanted to see the world oh. yeah. yeah. yeah. this is

a moment where we finished the time foundation which basically was to separate the whole house from the grounds on top of the ties it was just magic it was beautiful there so you see you do it most with yourself. and i didn't ourselves we had a lot of friends over the years helped us out with different projects. you know the creek plastering of the big wall that was down with our friends. and damien. and people help because it sometimes there's things you can't do them and they get those big knots on the ceiling and that's a whole neighborhood came together and carried this out.

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one of the cans i started using them before they started making aluminum cans i use the old steel beer cans and they're made very well but they do rust over time but we rarely use them as structure they are simply a panel wall in faile curtain wall and fill our forms and the real strength of a canned wall is the same mat it's really a way of forming same app the cans could go away and the curtain wall would still remain the form would still remain cuz it's a it's a hollowed out honeycomb of cement so it's really a cement wall with cans used to form it in the cans take no way or anything and sense there are no known now they don't rust they're just an ideal brick to do a lot of things with we've made domes involve some. archers and we use some of the pack out the tires we use them for interior walls or use them in a lot of ways. so this is the gravel pits and all of the earth and

gravel that was taken for him from here was used to build the road between towers and spear that us the sixty four so basically they took all of the earth out of this area and now we're building houses on to it and the idea is to turn it into a vibrant community but also to have you know vegetation and grow food onto it so basically you know from what we have done to kind of take from the earth we're trying to give it back in another way and create a sustainable community here and we're going to go and visit brenda who lives there right now right there hello hello thank you i heard very well the l.s.c. stilling is ok. cool. yeah this is brenda she's she was an academy student born in chicago raised to nara lynch but mostly

chicago after the academy and went right back to chicago and sold my house just there's something about living in these earthen structures or sleeping in these earthen structures that is just so comfortable. i sleep better than i've ever slept in my whole life the double greenhouse gives you three zones of temperature. here is the diagram of the building this is the global modular ship the winter sun comes in heats the building they are and it just it they the mass was always couper so it just leaks goes right into the mass and stores up and then we have a big story of the bank there it's like a big sister sister and stores water this stores heat i've had people in our nightly rentals that we learned from come to me the next day and say we it was winter we went to bed we put the quilt on you know wasn't cold but we put the quilt on to the winter. and in the middle of night twelve o'clock or so we kicked the

quilt off because it was too hot and we slept comfortably without the quilt what do you have you have a warm for something that comes on and heats the house automatically at night that you're not telling us about no it just takes that long for this air space to lose its temperature to ask for the wall to come on the wall comes on the second that it senses that this space is cooler he goes out that house that's made out of earth and that doesn't have like cement on the other side of something that's going to stop it will regulate humidity and keep fifty percent humidity inside your house at any time you know it might be more you know you take a shower is going to be a little bit more but it's just basically going to go out through the walls and go outside and this is the this is a pure play right. there react. well right so that's a good mix we look that's what if we had it if we had it even a bit dry you would see this even more because like the other ones would just break

completely. just. reuse it again. there's a. way ok maybe we've just. been. in the u.s. . when the tea is a thing can make a really nice time you know and make it a piece of art. where in what we call the phoenix or shift and it's just a flamboyant example of all the things that are in all the others well yeah we're in them is the middle of a high dry desert cold and hot and this is making the example of the fact

that at the tannic all rain forests can be built and not use any fossil fuel whatsoever to create this kind of. an environment so environments can be created on this planet with the planet itself we do not need a nuclear power plant to make a house or a botanical gardens work. a lot of people think that you have to be a hippie in a teepee in the mountains to be green or sustainable and it is showing that you don't this is showing you have quite a nice existence without using any of fossil fuels are dumping sewage into the oceans and rivers and things like that and other words it's just an understanding an eighth grade under. standing biology and physics that makes this work.

yeah and. this is going to be. yeah i think i think you know at least our basic philosophies. to housing would have a major impact on a global scale i think some of the major obstacles to that happening is

a lot of time government. without a doubt also corporations i mean in the u.s. there's a lot of places where they don't want you to use solar electric councils they want you to stay with the grid so you because you're supporting an entire. wealthy industry and there's a lot of talk about you can't catch water and other country other states say you can't go off the grid unless you pay taxes there they tax you on solar panels they're trying to do a lot of laws to still control people. here in the underwear that unlike the central florida area and they. live in completely off areas and they came in and like. so you have secret live there anymore and i made her want to get back on the grade. and you think it legal to like catch water on a lot of areas. yeah yeah especially for even like for drinking forget it.

i guess you just have to do a lot of work around with the more developed the country is the more difficult it is to do these kinds of things and it's industry and government isn't necessarily and certainly not a lot of times looking out for the people. for their own interests yeah absolutely us they're looking out for their money for money i mean we elected donald trump for good. it's all about money in the u.s. it's all about money. that's the only thing that matters i mean it's it's nice to go to other places where they're not so industrialized and developed where they're more accepting to these kinds of ideas. so some of the more challenging places could be the u.s. or europe. like.

yeah. yeah. i think that one of the fundamental things that mike has been fighting for is to get alternative and experimental building except it local. state wide in national building code it's easier for people to develop experimental heart it's not just earth ships and now it's t.v. mascaras scrutinizing that all over again and tell him not to continue working on this sustainable development cast say so. it's kind of sad to see that there would be a life. there are now in terms of acceptance and all this and found. it's still a struggle. that. new mexico is known for having tested you know nuclear bombs for

a long time and well michael reynold tried to do is to basically say if we're able to you know blow these bombs out why are we not able to build alternative buildings that don't necessarily you know go to codes but that makes sense and function better than buildings to really know if they if they do try to start humans from getting sun getting rain. getting when and if they do try to stop that they will have an uprising like they have never seen before i'll die fighting for their. so the first ship is just providing a very clean sustenance that is in countering the phenomena of the planet in

a way that that it could make people become more a part of the planet like trees our trees are really a part of the planet you can imagine a planet without trees so i would like to see if you can imagine a planet without people but the way the people are treating the planet now i like to imagine a planet without people because they're destroying it i want people to evolve into their real potential in that hotel is actually being hard.

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