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Uploaded by on Aug 31, 2010

August 2010

Brazilian couple Luiz and Edna Toledo have a home made from rubbish, literally. Not content with building themselves a recycled mansion, the couple now plan to construct an entire community from waste.

With walls made of bottles and a roof of bamboo, Luiz and Edna's house cost a fraction of a normal building. And now an ecologically sustainable village is on the drawing board. "It's definitely ecologically and economically sound, I think it's fantastic. This house is life", says local Government architect Laura. Could this be an alternative to Brazil's disease-ridden favelas?

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  • here, in the usa, we are saddled with building codes and costs to have any free expression in home construction.  There are never any rules taken away, only added as we go. This form of repression must end!

  • beautiful and honest living.

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  • Is that a hemp/cannabis plant at 1:33? ROFL

    I want to live in brazil.

  • Mais um talento Brasileiro e Barramansense que não é aproveitado como deveria.

    São dois artistas e pioneiros aqui. Muito admirados por nós da região. Quem ja foi lá sabe que esse casal faz isso de coração.

    Gringos, levem esse cara adiante por favor!

  • amazing...

  • @Bsmerzi - hey pal - nice to see you have watched zeitgeist one, but zeitgeist 2 is much better - it comes up with amazing solutions...check zeitgeist 2 first

    :)

    FS

  • @FactualSolutions

    I completly agree with you, and I am going to watch the Awakening 1/4, because Zeitgeist I have watch everything as possible. Good words, Lets do it!!

    I am proud of people when I see will and action to change and save the planet.

  • I take it this guy and his wife are relatively comfortable with no finanacial worries? You won't have time for these ingenious, artistic projects if you have to go to work, right? Let along employing people to sort out your rubbish. Have these people written any books? Their amazing, creative ingenuity must be recorded for people and future generation to learn and admire.

  • @99cachorro

    nonsense, there are plenty of VERY experimental homes in the US. Like Earth-Homes for example.

  • wOw , this man and his wife = true artists

  • @CaligalinLibrary  there are no earthquakes in brasil. My wife says there may have been a small shake in minas geris (she is from rio,taquara.

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