Earthships: Building Communities Clips & Phoenix Earthship

Basically a teaser...some clips from previous episodes of the Building Communities show with a tour of the beautiful new Phoenix Earthship in Taos, New Mexico. Enjoy, and do see the links for more information, as this is not meant to be an education on Earthships! I hope to post more tours of other Earthships and more of the interview with Biotech Michael Reynolds. He is quite a pioneering, goal-driven man whose innovative biotectural design and systems is changing the world.

Note my new website since this editing: http://tizliz.ning.com

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• earthships
• architecture
• self
• sustaining
• sufficiency
• construction
• alternative

[asarapi]

Survival shouldn't necessarily be war or a constant struggle. My Guru H.D.G. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami always said "Simple Living High Thinking." He said living in fear is animal life, being constantly in fear of being eaten up. In our case, by the gas & electric company and others preying upon our dependencies.

[tizlizbiz]

@asarapi Hi, thanks for your input; fear is a biggy to many of us, isn't it tho.. peace and smiles :)

[adgreen007]

I love the concepts behind earth ships, but the execution up to this point seems a little bit clumsy. I would be very intrested in seeing a earth bag/ earth ship hybrid designed by someone that pays a little more attention to astetics.

[tizlizbiz]

@adgreen007 thanks, adgreen007...many people have designed their own; you could always change asthetics if you don't care for them, methinks ;)

[mimiburnsband]

We are looking to build a home and a studio for music~ What a brilliant idea!!!!! Can you hire theses folks to come out anywhere?

[tizlizbiz]

@mimiburnsband sorry I've missed you and others here; (must check my 'notifications'!)...answer is yes, I do believe! Hope by now you've inquired of them!

[Whopzer]

Wow, I want to build one of those when I get older.

[LizBizToo]

it's slowly happening. The architect here has spent 30 + years struggling against the system;

and that the state of New Mexico recently gave him grant monies is a big step forward :)

being 'green' is finally catching on, and more...

I envy you your trip to Arcosanti...did you take footage?

Thx :)

[LizBizToo]

@xPhantomPoopx sounds like you'd do well to get thyself to a training session in New Mexico...I trust you've been to the earthship site :))))

[xPhantomPoopx]

I would work for free, building a whole community. This is awesome.

[patrick10001]

@whopzer me 2 ;)!

[heyxilong]

Self sustained, maybe, right after you import 90%of th e materials and a truck load of cash. Try using the resources you find in the area. It's been done.