FIRST EARTH (10/12) - Uncompromising Ecological Architecture

Chapter 10
Inner City 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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[MrSchpankme]

Thank you.

[ezetreal]

@chop98 It is your right not to enjoy the music or art form, but we should not forget that violence is also what brought about the need for such an art form. The music industry however did turn the rap lifestyle into the promotional tool for some form of violence that it has become. If you get passed the beat you actually often find in good rap, very good lyrics. Like anything else these days, most of it is not that good though.

Personally I am also not a fan though....

[chop98]

@jedinyMartusak All Americans are not racist. Were I to venture a guess as to why the black rapper isn't accepted? I'd have to say it's the lifestyle and what the lyrics are about that turns one off to the black rapper and their lifestyle. Is that racist? One chooses to live that way of life. Most Americans do not care for the violence that accompanies such. Why promote a form of art that promotes violence?

[brokendave]

**CORRECTION** @3:09 -- That isn't David Hilliard, that is Bobby Seale!

[jedinyMartusak]

So is every american a racist? Well, at least those who object the black rapper and his views. Well, as a European I really don't understand this :)))

[PhilNavidson]

This music is also really distracting and I find that it reinforces stupid stereotypes for what music is "black". I'd appreciate something more tasteful and fitting.

[csreeves]

What the FUCK!

This series was moving along so nicely until this bullshit section. I had and have no idea what just happened. What, putting up a couple cob benches in one of our countries murder capitals and calling it an amphitheatre is supposed to somehow teach sustainability? Give me a break. Why didn't you just go all the way and talk about building cob jails?!!

[annabelle7123]

that is why it's all inter-disciplinary,

social, racial, political, urban, environmenal issues? they are all intertwined!!!! check out the history, how city spaces were formed in your country

[blastergas]

"...people that may be consciously or unconsciously racist..." Spewing this kind of bigotry, and saying that all (white?) people are racist? consciously or unconsciously? a lot of people stop watching right there. I didn't, I was able to look past the racism of the messenger and see the message for what it was. Important. But the DJ with the beanie over his eyes had some counterproductive political views that turn most Americans off. I don't know why he or the black panthers are in the movie.

[roullettechick]

what are you talking about??