Chapter 5
Empowering 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
"I do it because I want to save myself." Thats beautiful!
voivod616 3 months ago in playlist Earth houses all over the world
i dont think the government allow these homes in my country
iezzzwan 6 months ago
@Achbar
The reason for community in the first place, cheers
oAndyDanko 10 months ago
@marcopolo8765 LOL!!! "If you ever did see an inspector you would basically have to kill him and chop him up and put him inside your mud home" XD i'm dying over here!
nazilampshade 1 year ago
Thank you so much for this information! Now I am pretty sure I know what I am supposed to do with my life and how I am meant to live, and I can't wait to get started! How do I get in touch with the cob cottage workshop???
samuski36 1 year ago
Pleae correcte me, I am asking for information and thanks for all of your help. Help me understand more clearly. Do you believe that Con houses are a bad idea for the nation as oppose to adobe or reathbag homes? Here is my sick idea, I know it takes time to build homes like this, i like them becuase they are potentially cheap, just use Earth, in a home like this, it appears that the labor cost is the most expensive thing.
Achbar 2 years ago
I love to see more eco friendly homes as well. But This particular style. Im sorry, but not on this continent. There are building code requirements and health and safety requirements that this will never achieve. Ice homes are much more energy efficient but still use conventional framing methods. Just alot more protection and insulation. Adds about another 100,000 to the price of your home but cost 1/2 as much to live in
marcopolo8765 2 years ago
sad to say, I understand your words. Once this stuff is plastered it works well. I would love to learn to build such a house. They seem to work well. They are not for everybody no doubt and i think that is what you are saying and I have to agree with you
Achbar 2 years ago
No doubt.
The kids can fix it.
Mikdeelo 2 years ago
Yeah this is really going to take off in America. I mean I myself am a home builder and all i can is Who wouldn't want to live in mud home. Just think of inspection process alone. If you ever did see an inspector you would basically have to kill him and chop him up and put him inside your mud home to get anything at all to pass any inspections.
marcopolo8765 2 years ago