FIRST EARTH (7/12) - Uncompromising Ecological Architecture

Chapter 7
European 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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[gabydewilde]

Your documentary rocks. I'd say solar panels make good roofing. They could help conditioning the domestic humans back into the wild ;)

The cob people seem to be of the same spirit as people growing their own food. It's like they all know exactly what they are doing but never ceases to amaze themselves with the results.

Should also make and distill your own alcohol for lighting preferably from hemp like n' the old days ;)

It's all very high tech. Almost lucid. lol

[Mikdeelo]

A backhoe for cobbing!

Now we are getting serious!

[MrSchpankme]

Thank you.

[MrSchpankme]

@OGdank13 .. yes it can; and it was the savior of the world in the 1600 - 1950's

[TheSelfGoverned]

I've done a few calculations using the data given at 5:25.

If you were to build a tower to the sky, it would reach a height of around 300 feet before the cob tower would crush itself. This number seems far too high.

Assuming the structural data given is 5 times too strong, the calculations would still allow a two story cob wall to compressively hold 2.9 pounds per square cm, or 18.5 pounds per square inch, or 2,600 pounds per square foot??

[OGdank13]

@gabydewilde hemp can save the world!

nice comment :)