Recapping #3: Garbage Warrior

My last movie review, I was introduce to an amazing man named Michael Reynolds and his Earthships. Michael Reynolds has been an architecture for 35 years, and he been experimenting with radically sustainable living houses in New Mexico of Taos. He beileves that progress evolves through making mistakes, but not everyone sees it that way. On one view, he did not believe in the past or current standards of architectures. He believe in his own sustainability living houses for the future. Throughout this movie I learned it's not an easy way to pursue sustainability living standards with any city council, government, and the state.

The beginning had Mr. Reynolds introducing us to one his sustainability house called, "The Phoenix", it has nothing that comes into this house. There are no no usage of energy, power lines, gasoline, sewage lines going out, water lines coming in. There are 6,000 of water and food growing, sewage internal lines, 70°space year round, taking every aspect of life, and putting into our own life. A family of can live in it and not have to visit a store. Food production, birds, and insects flying around, goats, chickens, and ducks, Amazon jungle with 24 ft tall trees, and plat forms to hangout with all types of birds and insects. The "Thumb House" is the house Michael Reynolds and his wife lived there for 20 years later, and with their kids are still there because good working conditions. His home is the first house made from beer cans formed into bricks. This was possible by the wires, foil for reflectors, and 2 - 3 other houses were made this way. Thrown away tires are another product used for create his houses. His house was very simple, easy to build, beer cans and plastered over, no door, no walls,windows, u- shaped rooms, and all connected with the Greenhouse, glass faces sun, low winter floods the house and absorbs into the tires wall store, their no heating or cooling system, and under Fahrenheit causes stress on a person and off the planet.

Michael Reynolds will show you to different testing sites called "Castle Compound" and "Reach Community". Castle Compound, Texas built 1976-1986 30 years. It was the testing site and just the evolution of his work, can't worry about what it looks like and just wan it to. Pretty much it's a place for trial error, and experiments, and learning situation from the buildings. Reach Community, Taos the first sustainable testing site, successful and going further,650 acres this time around. $1,000 + was spent on this process of getting a house on a land fields. This houses are good because there are no mortgage bills, utility bill. One thing needs to know is that their contract will say they agree to live in an experimental houses. Hence, mention that people can complain all that goes wrong, and his crew will be there to make sure all the problems be solved out.

Greater World Community located in Taos and found 1990, it's a community that Michael Reynolds was able to established as a whole. Everyone came from a downside life from the reality of regular house living, but they were able to help lead Mr. Reynolds into doing great work. Some people were homeless or wanted a new way to live. They were designated a lot of 10 acres, memberships of share, turn into building lots, paid the same amount and drew number of hat, and got the lot they got. It was a fair and equal deal, and no richer person couldn't afford the better lot, people got in affordable price like a fancy restaurant night out. I enjoyed how they worked it out, and they inspired people to keep on moving this sustainability of living. The crew became a great family, so nothing harmful happened. The house can take care of it's own self that it provides power, heats itself, plants provide food, water comes from roof. Michael Reynolds words with put on websites, magazines, and attracted people to work for him and eventually the crew.

Towards the end of the movie it got kinda messy with knowing what was going on from taking notes. I can just say that Michael Reynolds lost his architecture license, and hit rock bottom for awhile. He was told that he was not following the architecture safeties and the book rules, yet Michael Reynolds did not like it at first. Then he wanted to continue his life, so he just gave in and allowed a certain rural city living.  Construction were done to make things good regarding the rules. Then one thing to keep in mind is that a prospering country will not change their living standards of sustainability, but when a third world country loses all they got with the a disaster hitting them. When everything is destroyed and have to stared back over, it will allow a new sustainability of living happens. This was when Michael Reynolds started to help some countries who got a lot of their living houses wiped out. Finally, he allowed his license back for helping third world country who lost everything.