people look at this and call it a Mad
Max compound what the heck these people
live like this and a bunch of dirty
hippies that don't know how to clean up
the land wow it's weird they call it
trashy world is not going to build weird
houses but you know I'm gonna argue with
him and like like I'm not gonna argue
with the people dancing on the top level
of the Titanic before the iceberg crash
if people don't see disaster is in their
horizon you can't convince some of that
they're gonna have to see it on their
own and I'm just making life rafts right
nut
imagine living in a home that costs you
nothing meteor cool imagine building is
home yourself imagine no utility bills
imagine earthships an earth ship is a
passive seller home made out of natural
and recycled materials the major
building component of an earth ship is
used automobile tires and Earth ships
power is generated by the Sun and wind
rain and snow is caught on the roof and
funneled into a sister heat comes from
the sky water comes from this guy sewage
can go back into biology I mean we don't
need all these systems that men have
created
the first beer can house was made in
1972 and I found myself fresh out of
architectural school and I just said
well hell we build out of trees but we
don't want to get rid of them and we
want to get rid of garbage why don't we
try to build out of garbage it started
to be kind of a contrived effort to
recycle and has ended up the best way I
know of to be able to regardless of
recycling hey Jenna shut up hey you
idiot I'm so sick of recycling and
sustainable and green and organic their
rhetoric things you know this is just my
opinion but I mean so many people are so
righteous why do you use concrete why
you use oil-based products who cares
I'll use anything I can even if it's my
mother's down jacket I'll use anything
to make buildings that show people that
they don't need infrastructure
the community set up to have about 130
homes and there's probably 65 out there
ah was it gonna work yes perfectly we
moved in in 97 end of 97 the airship had
been started when my partner and I
bought it and then we started building
from there I really had no idea what we
were getting into um I had seen his
books and I thought they were just
absurd and I thought we'd be living in
the stack of tires and I ended up living
in a stack of tires and you know Tommy
me after living in a RV freezing to
death you know we thought we were
friggin homeless for a while with no job
no home none of this was happening and
then we ended up with this it was like
heaven
I love living here I like that you have
to be very conscious living in an ER
ship conscious of what the Sun is doing
conscious of the weather my sister is
full right now but you're conservative
you don't take a half an hour shower the
planter is in my home I live with my
plants um I love that I had a friend
many years ago who when I told her about
the Earthship she said man there's just
no curb appeal and I've overheard them
at bars saying oh yeah the Earth ships
those gopher people oh yeah those people
they live in goal for homes it's like ya
ever hear it is i think tradition and
culture you know are nice they should be
in magazines on coffee table books but
they shouldn't be in our way of
evolution and they are tradition and
culture or two of our biggest enemies in
my opinion they stop us from evolving
we're not evolving fast enough roaches
and in bacteria they're evolving very
fast you know the movement that we need
to make on this planet in my opinion is
not going to go fast enough if we're
trying to be palatable but then again
you have to be palatable where people
are not going to do it it was long and
slow for me to understand that what I
like other people didn't like whether
this product name this brand earthships
lives or dies is not really that
important I think the concept of
encountering phenomena of the planet for
deriving sustenance is going to catch on
I think people are smart enough to
realize that it's very artistic I'm I'm
quite impressed it seemed very
comfortable for you know like inside so
you're reusing rather than recycles
mm-hmm it's amazing you don't have to do
the whole thing it seems it would catch
on because as things get more desperate
scotto