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 on the shame that provides all of these things there are six things that humans meet 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 someway 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 . so living in the ship community here in the greater worlds is about those more than seventy houses about one hundred forty people with families living here well. what. i used to feel like some kind of like little affair you know i've been there because you know it's so very. very organic

very like you need a something 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 of. waking up to something stable. and cooling kind of see the little different than we can get that house that's conventional. materials. because it's a little more connected to the outdoors as well even when you're indoors but it's quite comfortable i think to like a few people can compare you know being in tune or in a sense to you know sweat lodge 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 . you really feel tefl but at the same time and it goes in both directions so you

need to take care of your house you house to take care of you properly. we just close the skylights which are basically. during the day evacuated through the sky and because it's no night time we just want the heat at this time to stay inside the house say every night which is close to me please it's retaining me. we use 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 and the heat is brought in with the sun. absorbed into the walls and given back when you need it most at night. but let me. go to back to just when i thought this point you're not going to be really whaling on this third thing yet because the church still thought i was. so what we're going

to do is i'm going to use a tool to push the material into the sidewalk and protect. myself welcome everybody here and welcome me not just in this session but a global family and a cadre 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 a very similar style and moved to put. two years ago their shape was kind of her 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. 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 by very revealing but if we go from there around. say thank. you. 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 on the wildfires that they have because you have the tires are protected it's all covered with 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 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 is 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 once it's full it just overflows because we have clung to look around us the water to get through the cycle by this month again and. this is the water use is it all the rainwater yeah our water is pure five remind me of his pants over there one of the n.p.r. i mean the other one 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 plants to process the sewage. we create our own little oasis here. in the toilet 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 rounds when i was in a college class and someone mentioned earlier 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 bit actually put some more of you do i really do

a little house bag to get it all. we've got to start another big. i moved here strain of extra school and i tend to go. and. started working there is existing already. community. for ships 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 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 these. things 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 you're. doing generating everything from that and so this idea is very much like that. idea. 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 into the educational side. and enjoy students and. i like seeing what they go on and do after they're here. all the different routes so many different projects from the academy students i mean a huge variety. so the cameroonian all financial made me part of the roof 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 biotech and we started building the house and we train local volunteer is. 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. yeah. you know the u.k. . this is a moment where we finished the tire 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 more with yourself phil and i than 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 second day me and. you know people have because it is sometimes there's things you can't do that and they get those big knives on the ceiling and that's our whole neighborhood came together and carried this out.

sex guys are financial survival guide. when customers go by you're just applying. didn't help well reduce some of our. best undercutting but what's good for food market is not good for the global economy. and is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos and nimble was dismissive to me like you know. these things in my complicity is going to have no phil saviano maybe you know john i just hope. the only palestinians it gets the most hopeful is to roost on counterparts i don't think some of those who endure on the open vision could not only go through this. and know it is unfair not just to have this lady of the muscle that you have i know if you continue muslims you know do more commitments also because all.

he is going to do drill holes grinder maybe the mixer. if he has time and so group two will start with them. i am going to do the table saw. so i'll take group three. years to get. these get turned into bricks. so we. had a high level of. play there was a demand to meet me. that played in. the window for. me when i think. yeah you know if.

you try to get more of a curve in your read of the story line we don't care if you see to make. even a lot. of you needs you if you mean. whether cayennes 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 feel are forms and the real strength of a can wall is the same at it's really a way of forming same as 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 the cans take no way or anything and since 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 involves an arch is 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 from here was used to build the road between toes and the disputed us the sixty four so basically they took all of the earth out of this area and now we have building houses on to it and the idea is to tenant 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 which trying to give it back in another way and creates a sustainable community and we're going to go and visit brenda who lives there right now brenda. hello hello thank you oh good for me i let's see this film is that 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 preferable. 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 and heats the building they are and it just it's a the mass was always cooler 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 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 it wasn't cold but we put the quilt on to

get to winter. and in the middle and 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 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 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 was going to be a little bit more but it's just basically going to go up through the walls and go outside and this is the this is a. place right. there reacted well right so that's

a good mix we like this one 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. well there's a. way ok maybe it is just me that's been. in the us. could make a really nice you know make it a piece of art. where in what we call the phoenix or 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 in other words it's just an understanding an eighth grade understanding of biology and physics that makes this

work. yeah. you know 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 aware that unlike the central florida area and they. live in completely average and they came in and i. could live there anymore and i made her and i get back on the grade. and that you

think illegal that i catch water on a lot of areas. yeah you know 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 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. how. did he do last year and. i think they are. one of the fundamental things that make has been fighting for is to get alternative an experiment of building except in local or. state wide and national 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 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 protheroe are now in terms of acceptance and all this and found. of all the thirty's it's still a struggle. 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 in buildings to really know if they if they do try to stop 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 the planet without people because they're destroying it i want people to evolve into their real potential and that potential is actually being hard.

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assume. i think that donald trump is really confident about his skull passages ability to persuade people and the power of us personality and all this kind of things and i'm sure the kids i'm going will try to play this card will try to give donald trump something he can tweet so he can you can show to everyone look i'm the first one i'm the one who rolls the art of the deal i'm the first one can make a deal with this guy what every other american president before me failed i succeeded.

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