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Chapter 2
African Earth

FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter -- building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An audiovisual manifesto filmed over the course of 4 years and 4 continents, FIRST EARTH makes the case that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world; and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, it is incumbent upon us to transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages, a new North American dream.

FIRST EARTH official website
http://www.davidsheen.com/firstearth

Chapter 1 - Prologue: What's Wrong With Architecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDkfuziZiI

Chapter 2 - African Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11n97wW1PLQ

Chapter 3 - American Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3trjONseWiA

Chapter 4 - Why Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysOVLw30fvQ

Chapter 5 - Empowering Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFTwnTbLPBU

Chapter 6 - Another Earth Is Possible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIVc7DZemTo

Chapter 7 - European Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOeb3jv3xoU

Chapter 8 - Arabian Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFnzpCf5Z-g

Chapter 9 - Urban Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydztLSnF78

Chapter 10 - Inner City Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk64Of_HPrI

Chapter 11 - International Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqdsSwOwD9A

Chapter 12 - Epilogue: Future Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoSdnMEhRa0

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  • Oh good, There was so much griping and human bashing in the first part I almost didn't watch the second. I'm glad I gave part 2 a chance though. (I hate it when people Bitch without offering an alternative course of action.) With a little modification, mud construction could work even in parts of America. Thanks, I'll be sure to watch the rest.

  • Americans are unhappy chesseburger eaters.

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  • That dawadawa cement sounds interesting.

  • Hey, I like this second part. I'll check the rest now.

  • @notsure2013 Animals taste good.

    

  • I need to edit the first part of the movie to "1500's - 1800's: The African ancestor's of Black American's are traded for cheap trinket's as if they were nothing by their own people." I am not racist but I can't stand the all the guilt pouring one way. They sold themselves. They sold their own daughter's into prostitution, their own mother's and son's. I can't stand someone trying to get pity through guilt.

  • Thank you.

  • Oh please Mr. Narrator! It's your kind that's continually perpetuating stereotypes, by opposing the life-saving chemical DDT, that could eradicate Malaria from Sub-Saharan Africa! It's your kind that are protesting Ethiopia's dam projects that are going to provide millions of it's people with electricity in the coming years. Give me a break. People are beginning to see you for who you really are.

  • Environmentalists believe that humans are a cancer on earth, a scourge, creatures that have no natural predators (except each other and diseases). Therefore, we have, to quote an Eco-Imperialist, David M. Graber, "quit the contract and become a cancer" to the earth, through urbanization and unimpeded consumption of energy. So, basically we don't deserve to live on the earth. This is one reason Ecos believe in population control. But something tells me it goes much deeper than that.

  • It's becoming clearer everyday that environmentalists want you to believe that Africans are happy living without electicity and living in a "traditional" or "indigenous" (poor) way of life reminiscent of the middle ages. If they are no different from "us" as the narrator suggests, then they would appreciate modernity as much as we do. Eco-wackos are just trying to convince everyone that energy consumption and urbanization are evil, so they can keep Third World countries poor.

  • @blastergas Here in the Western U.S. we have adobe, cob and rammed earth construction which are all earth building methods. The adobe missions of the Spanish in California are older than the United States and most are still standing after several earthquakes.

    Earth houses can be clean, quiet and more comfortable than many stick built houses because they are less drafty in winter and cooler in summer.

  • so cool

    love ianto

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