the reason we call these our ships is because they're a ship to sail on the seas of tomorrow that's kind of why we call it that they're not a house house needs power lines coming in and gas lines coming in and so we had lines going out and water lines coming in. a nurse ship is a bessel or machine that provides all of these things there are six things that humans need on this planet they need water they need comfortable shelter that doesn't use fossil fuel they need electricity they need to treat their sewage and some way and they need to treat their garbage in some way and they need food these housing units called earth ships address all of these things all over the world and

these are the same six things that humans all over the world need to have addressed . living in the ship community here in the greater welds there's about there's more than seventy houses about one hundred forty people with families living here who know what when i was little i used to feel like some kind of like. fairy old thing there because you know it's so very. very organic very like you look at basic things like like i was a woodland fairy living man a secret castle. it feels really good feels really solid and there's this sense of solidity living inside an earthen structure itself there's this sense that. we connect to something stable. and cool in kind of see the little different than we can get the house. conventional.

materials. because it's 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 compare you know being in a suit to a womb or in a sense to you know sweat loads like once you're inside of it you do feel much it you feel you need to 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 for your house to take care of you properly. we just close the skylights which are basically the hut during the day evacuated through the skylights and because it's now night time we just want the heat at this time to stay inside the house so 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 will last forever termites don't eat them they don't rot and they're 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 in the heat is brought. and with the sun and absorb 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 third thing yet because the church still thought i was free so we're going to do is i'm going to use a tool to push the material into the side wall of the time. i feel welcomed everybody here and welcome me not just in this session but to a global family and had this from all over the world we've had students from eight different countries speak english. ok so this is

celeste. my friend and she's from portugal i come from fleming you know my name is mario. i was born in recent minutes moved to puerto rico two years ago their shape was kind of our dream and then we got slammed superstar and. everything changed you know three hundred sixty degrees night in day so there were twenty. came down things to you guys great for i'm sure you know we are there to not think we're ready you know to go back there to have revealed but if we go from there around. 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 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 in you're welcome. so these houses are called simple survivals because of 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 our 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 ring 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 but with. that basically releases that it was full so once it's full it's overflows because we have

a long field around the water to get through the cycle by the flow. again and. this is the water use is it all the rainwater yeah our water is pure five remotely if he spouts over there one of the n.p.r. i mean the other one goes through several filters that sprinkle. this this into the houses where the black water. 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 plants 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 it 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 they were 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 own self-sufficient power and be disconnected from the grid you could create your own political and social power that would not be so heavily influenced by corporate or government and trysts about personal freedom. and you see i haven't dug it out a little actually put some more of you do i really do a little house bag and. we're going to start another big. i moved here strain of extra school i tended to go. and. started working there is existing already in. community. for ships and so i started working up there. just doing basic stuff mixing and.

intrigue 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 can build anywhere in the world it would be impossible to build a compassionate 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 the. buildings just tack and to 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 if you power get water and sewage with a commercial house there's no way to get that infrastructure on the streets and. well i stayed because. 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 you. doing generating everything from that and so this idea is very much like that. the idea is to know. that really attracted me to be able to control. my own power my own heed 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 in the educational side and enjoy the students i. like seeing what 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 this cameroonian all financial made me part of

their wealth and it's part of the status and then geo and i went back a year ago and i built the first house of the center with different from most of them who i met through the biotech and we started building the house and we train local volunteer is up and with the children also from the orphanage were participating and so it was just a beautiful experience where we all shed you know knowledge and how we wanted to see the worlds. oh i know that. you do think that. this is a moment where we finished the time foundation which basically was to separate the whole house from the ground on top of the time it was this much it is beautiful there so you see you do it most with yourself. and i mean 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 will stand with our fans. and damien. can people help because sometimes there's things you can't get around that get those big knives on the ceiling that's our whole neighborhood came together and carried this out. it's the family was engaged in massive political financial corruption which led to a concentration of wealth and ultimately the downfall of that country so in america you have a similar corruption playing out as we call it money in politics and people try to get rid of the lobbyists and this cycle is being played out all over again and so the question is is it inevitable. elliston is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos in the middle of the commission to do it looking like you know.

this is my complicity is going to look to study how we did you. know john. the only palestinians who gets the most hopeful is jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those ruined who were under the vision didn't know who could do this. and the it is unfair advantage to have this lady of the muscle that you have i don't know if you continue muslims you know do more in the middle sauced don't put this off. run run run run. he is going to do drills right or maybe the mixer. if he has time and said group two will start with them. i am going to do the table saw. so i'll take group three. you get in.

the sun. these get turned into great. to see that one mile up. there was a tremendous beat me. that played a. window. to the need to get things i think. yeah you know. you try to get more of a curve of your of the story line we don't care and she didn't make. even a lot. of you need to issue me. well 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 c. man the cans could go away and the the curtain wall would still remain the form would still remain cuz it's 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 and. an arch is and we use them 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 is was used to build the road between towers and the disputed 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 and we're going to go and visit brenda who lives there right now brenda hello hello thank you i heard first with me alexia he's filming is ok. cool. yeah this is brenda she's she was an academy student born in chicago raised in ireland but mostly chicago after the academy i went right back to chicago and sold my house it's 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 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 law is always cooler so it just leaks goes right into the mass and stores up and that we have a big story bank there it's like a big sister and sister 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 just we put the quilt on to get to 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 they wall to come off the wall comes on the second that

it senses that this space is cooler he goes out that house that's made out of a 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 reacted well right so that's a good mix we like this one with 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 complete it.

just. well now there's a. way ok it is just me that's been. in the us. could make a really nice you know make it a piece of art. wherein what we call the phoenix earth ship 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 this is showing that you don't this is showing you have quite a nice existence with using any of so few rules are dumping sewage into the oceans and reversion things like that and other words it's just an understanding an eighth grade understanding of biology and physics that makes this work.

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 us 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 aware 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 gravy . and that if they can legally catch water on a lot of areas. yeah you know yeah especially for even thank you for drinking forget it. and 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 that it's industry and government isn't necessarily in certainly not

a lot of times looking out for the people. for their own interests yes absolutely the us they're looking out for their money for money i mean we elected donald trump for good say perry 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 can be the u.s. or europe. like. how . to change us here and. i think that it. one of the fundamental things that make has been fighting for is to get our turn and experimental building except in local or. state wide international building

code it's easier for people to develop experimental heart it's not just earth ships and now the steam asco is scrutinizing that all over again and telling him not to continue working on this sustainable development cast say so. it's kind of sad to see that that would be a life protheroe are now in terms of acceptance and all this and found. of all the thirty's this trouble. new mexico is known for having tested you know nuclear bombs for a long time and what michael read or try 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 in buildings to really know if they if they do try to stop humans from getting sun getting rain. getting wind 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 the planet without people because they're destroying it i want people to

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