Why Build With Earth? (1/2)

interview with Michael G. Smith (3/8)

Part 1 - Cob: The Origin Story (1/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU1ICq8UpW8

Part 2 - Cob: The Origin Story (2/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R11LV5xZofQ

Part 3 - Why Build With Earth? (1/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBPoWelEQmM

Part 4 - Why Build With Earth? (2/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLpJWG15A4Y

Part 5 - Why Live In Community? (1/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ODS5Jaebw

Part 6 - Why Live In Community? (2/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f02Xvulvsk

Part 7 - Ecommunity Engineering (1/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkL6wnbtf4w

Part 8 - Ecommunity Engineering (2/2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TktlzOnr4eI

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• cob
• rammed
• earth
• adobe
• natural
• building
• ecological
• architecture
• michael
• smith
• emerald

[vutEwa]

@YiuTeub imagine a world where the people don't give a shit what the stupid government says and they ignored them because they are irrelevant, and they went on about their merry lives without ever giving them the power in their minds or hearts.

[merdlb]

thats not hiccups thats a health condition...

[dervxerox]

Could have been said with fewer words.

[ytertyu]

blah blah blah ..look how handsome I am ..more blah

[YiuTeub]

@brob1969 Imagine a world without some bureaucratic shithead telling citizens what to do.

[punkish87]

eyh eyh

[eddiequest4]

huh? (psst. Use spell check, dude)

[eightwillwontcannot]

Errrr.... gypsym gypsym gypsym gypsym

GIPSUM

[OMFGCMONALREDY]

He has hiccups ,got to cracking me up after i noticed it lol .

[eddiequest2]

I'm partial to "Cast Earth", myself. Its tensile and compressive strengths are astronomical. And the prime binder, calcined gypsum, is easily made (limestone). But there is, of course, a very strong argument for using local soils.