Haiti Earthship Update December, 2011

http://earthship.com/haiti
Marita Mariasine worked with Grassroots United and Earthship Biotecture to train 30 Haitians. Here she explains the Earthship way of Building.

The Haiti Earthship Project is a permanent, sustainable structure that takes care of the people (clean water, sanitary sewage treatment) and requires very few skills which are easy to acquire. The local people can replicate these buildings and systems.

http://earthship.com/haiti

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[reinux]

would like to see more of the house.

[PiPphiltitley]

totally love this i have watched the full doc with Michael Reynolds and they have intrigued me for a long time now, the only down side i can see is the use of builders membrane/ plastic sheet and a plastic water tanks food grade or not this stuff leaches toxins in to the water and foods, also the use of cement to make concert,the only thing good about this stuff is its longevity. No disrespect in fact full respect to anyone that that builds one or is involved.

peace n love all

stay safe pip

[TheRacines]

Good day, I like your project. I am planing to help redesign and build a school that the earthquake took down in Haiti. I have never built and earthship and cannot afford the time off to take the course in Taos NM. The Earthship concept is straight forward and I have been studying it for a number of years now and want to put it to work. How can I get in touch with someone to help me organize and build the project in Haiti? Please let me know. Thx

[exclamation3mark]

what kind of plastic has no toxins that is applied to the underground water systems?

[newearthroot]

@RandomAccountHolder This is Marita. This is a demo has already evolved since, Trained 30 Haitans in this resilient technology. New allaince with a Haitian association will provide a structure, long term avenues and microloans..I paid the kids for all the recycled materials, 2 months of collection. 4000$ included fluch toilet, cistern. crews, wood, recycled materials, cement rebar, every peice.. Next projects: Fully sustainable Earthship school in Haiti and solidaritykitchen in PortauPrince..

[RandomAccountHolder]

How, exactly, do you fund a building like this when the average individual income of Haitians is around $450/year? If they pay 30% of their income for housing, with 0 interest on the loan it would take an individual Hatian at least 21 years to pay off their house materials only. With 4 people living there (is it designed to handle that amount of waste?) it would still take almost 6. Another year for the labor (30 people paid that average wage fro 2 weeks ($540) and divided among those 4 people.)

[BadassCeino]

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL THING. HAITI & THE REST OF THE WORLD NEEDS THIS ALSO.

[baddogonline]

I like it.

[MrSchpankme]

Start incorporating BIOCHAR into the sustainability for food production.

[DeSwiss]

Wonderful!