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Mike Reynolds About Earthships Video
Contributed by J. R. Ransom
Mike Reynolds
Earthships: Future-proof buildings - sustainable, self-sufficient homes -- and the 50 or so that are scattered outside the New Mexico town of Taos, constitute the Earthship Greater World community. As Michael Reynolds says: "If water is falling from the sky, and it is on the majority of the planet, it's crazy not to catch it."
"Back in the Seventies, the TV or magazines were talking about cans being thrown all over the streets and highways. I responded to that by building a house out of cans. That thinking just kept on being applied. An earthship is a stand alone home. It makes its own energy, harvests its own water, contains and treats its own sewage. And they are built from recycled materials..."