FIRST EARTH (1/12) - Uncompromising Ecological Architecture

Chapter 1
What's Wrong With Architecture

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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[Gommblotz]

Solar walls work best for free hot water in northern countries, rather than rooftop collectors. But it appears that all the solar hot water systems in Canada are designed for roofs. High cost, low efficiency. It doesn't make sense.

[Sakyrilicious]

Does anybody know the artist behind the paintings like in minute 4:52

Please I would love to see his work

[RoofTopSolarPowers]

Trustme, Even on an Overcast, Rainy day in Bangalore, (Where winter temperatures each 15degreesCelcies, quite cold for the Tropics), my RoofTopSolarWaterHeater provides me with HotWater for Bathing throughout the Daylight, and into the early evening, say till 7PM. We infact can power all our HousingSystems using RoofTopSolarPower.

[RoofTopSolarPowers]

.............Write or Ask the US Presidents, and the EU Union to ACT...A-C-T...'A'lpha 'C'harlie 'T'ango...All the Countries can co-exist with the Sun's Power (FOR A SIMPLE FACT, LIFE ON THE PLANET, AND THE VERY PLANET HERSELF is nothing but BY-PRODUCT OF OU SUN's STARDUST.....ACTNOW RICHMEN....!!!!! !Else, we all are History, like always Before.!

[RoofTopSolarPowers]

Rooftopsolar needs only Sun light. Please start manufacturing units of rooftopsolar right across through the length and breadth of this planet (Simply by Otsourcing manufacturing rooftopsolarpanels to Countries such as China, Philippines and India etc. By atleast 50 years like this, the entire WorldHousing shall become RoofTopSolar (The poor countries ofcourse will follow suit with implementation of RoofTopSolar). LowCosting SolarPanels AtopRoof iskeytoatleast AcheivingFreeOfCostDomesticEne­rgy.

[thatstheguy07]

@thatstheguy07 ...and you guys are talking about oil.

[thatstheguy07]

@strwdle I dont know what the things you just mentioned have to do with anything lol but regardless, you cant say thats a fact. Because you dont know. Because its not been proven.

Anyway as I said, why isnt the bigger topic that alternative energy sources are being suppressed while we're gouged when we pay for oil. He sghould have made a video on that if hes worried about running out of oil.

Tesla discovered free energy for everyone, and our govts have kept it secret since then.

[strwdle]

@thatstheguy07 Wow. Talk about denial. We live on a lump of rock floating in space. Unless you're planning on drilling on Mars we're going to run out of oil. FACT.

[devijvers]

+1 for Daniel Quinn

[yondaimeeeeee]

@banq0o they do not care and the simple reason is that they live by the moment and when they die nothing else matter... so it doesn't really bother them... they have kids because that's giving them pleasure so simple is that...