Which is your favourite material?

I live in Canada and have built 2 straw bale homes with clay/lime plasters on the walls, one with recycled newspaper for insulation all around, recycled tire and plastic bottle roofs, 2 log homes, and a number of other alternatives. Now I find that my favourite materials to work with are reused ones. Taking down an old structure and saving the tin from the roof, refurbishing old doors and windows, reusing lumber, bricks and concrete blocks, etc. The alternatives in here are likely very very expensive or very very labour intensive. They will not catch on because of that. They will always be niche products unless they can be made as easy to install and for very low prices. Homes are already very expensive. Making them more expensive is not sustainable unfortunately. Massive scaling needs to happen to a product to ensure wide spread use. That being said, nothing will change without innovation so please people keep innovating, you may just make the breakthrough needed to save the world and reintroduce harmony between humans and the environment

These ideas will save the present and future Earth♻️🌱🌎

I think the real lesson here is to focus on using locally available materials as building solutions. The reason many products are not sustainable is because of how much we use which causes an imbalance in the ecosystem. If we say cork is the new global material, over harvesting will occur and it will no longer sustainable. Same goes with seaweed, and all the other materials listed in this video.

This was interesting to watch and learn. I think one other sustainable material that needs more attention is hemp! It is an extremely versatile crop, can be grown pretty much anywhere in the world and not just useable for building materials but food, medicine, eco-plastic and clothing!

These are all amazing materials that are new to me, apart from cob. The energy producing algae seems to have a lot of possibilities.

This is giving me hope for humanity again

Make a part 2 and I'll subscribe. This was amazing! Will be such a huge help with designing the game I'm working on. Especially love the cork, plastic bricks, polyurethane, and seaweed ones! Gives me answers to designing types of starting housing in all terrains! Plus a way for ppl to reuse plastics in the future.

WOW that's AWESOME !! So practical and self sustaining ....

This is so amazing, I'm excited to learn about more sustainable materials and make my projects with them.

Thanks for the effort to research, edit and share this to us all! Stay safe!

This is exactly what we need.. Thanks people

This is so amazing! My favorite at the moment would be the polyurethane plant based foam. Absolutely NOT plastic! It must be a material that can "breath" and not make damage to your health while living in it. Thanx a lot for this informative video. All the best to you.

I loved your programme, lookingb so forward to the next one.

Nice lecture. Gave me an insight into eco friendly building materials which were unknown to me before. Thanks again

Very cool video!!! I did an eco-friendly renovation before and looking forward to my next project being an 100% eco-friendly built home ❤❤❤❤

Cork really? Cork only grows in one tiny portion of the world. The wine industry is moving away from cork because it was becoming scarce and expensive.

This video is great guys. I’m surprised you don’t have more subscribers. Huge fan of your channel

Very cool video!!! I did an eco-friendly renovation before and looking forward to my next project being an 100% eco-friendly built home

This was so eye-opening! I learned so much about eco-friendly alternatives to traditional building materials.

Excellent! Good info, nice presentation, lot of efforts taken! Please consider Bamboo. East Asian countries have houses completely built by Bamboo. Also there is Wheat Straw Plywood/board being made in India.

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Building materials include earthbag,strawbale, Adobe ,rammed earth and you can use mushrooms for insulation.

nice nice👏 I've learned alot

I'm actually so interested in all of these, especially mushroom, bamboo potential, hempcrete, cob and green algae

Thanks for share

The mushroom one... It's insane....

Great content👏👏 hope this video may reach more people.

This video very useful for me because I can learn various sustainable metarials! Thank you for videos like this🥰🥰 When I learned that coffe husk is one of the sustainable metarials, I was so surprised😳 I have never thought that it could be a metarial for architecture🤔

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Really cool!

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Great content! Very useful for me ❤️

Thanks for your great content 🙏 keep going 👏✨

I found your video very interesting and it was great to watch however I would love to hear the what are the negatives about each material too. I am currently searching for biomaterials for a university project and it could be very helpful for others too! Great work tho:)

Where can i watch the full info about the diaper thing?

Is the goal, of the materials being used, to make these homes and furnishings, as flammable as possible?!

hiii love your videos but any idea on how the cork will react with fire or an earthquake???

Wow, keep up the good work 🙏❤️

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Carbon tiles as well

It's great to see such innovations, however, materials are not sufficient for a wholly sustainable world. As mentioned in the video, Colombia is suffering although it is one of the top coffee-producing countries in the world. Saying that this new coffee bean-based architectıral material would be a solution at least for the housing problem there is simply underestimation. There is no way to create a sustainable world by inventing new fancy materials without solving the social inequality, including the influence of Global North on Global South.

THIS SOUNDS JUST LIKE HOW THE FUTURE SHOULD LOOK... !!!

Nice informative video, well done. Cork was my favorite material.

I would like to see more videos on plastic bricks. It is relatively low-tech and it could kill 2 birds with one stone, provided that it has sufficient fire resistance.

Its interesting how as soon as a "cheap" eco material is discovered it is turned into a luxury product as companies capitalize on consumers desire to be more ecofriendly.

I had no clue cork, coffee husks, and mushrooms could be used for building! the only part I'm conflicted with is the algae power, I would prefer would be is to start implementing molten salt reactors using thorium(233)-uranium(233) cycles and implement more resources into fusion energy, as both produce obscene amounts of power and are a much more sustainable source than fossil fuel plants and produce less waste than traditional Uranium reactors, there's even reactors being made that can recycle spent nuclear waste from other reactors

Funny, the wood and newspaper remark reminded me of my grandfather redoing his wall in his very old house. It had newspaper between the walls. He told me that newspaper was once used as insulation material for homes. This was in the 1960's his home was 80 years old.

I like going green but I don’t like the part about using recycled plastic with coffee husks. It’s partially going green but not enough. Hay bail houses are close but they still use plastic to cover the hay bails to prevent rodent infestation. Cob or sod is best choice. Or sod has even less carbon imprint since you can just use your lawn to build your next house, roots and all.

But really, all your need is cob in places with not so cold winters, and straw bales for more cold climates.

Does anyone know if there is a fire resistant Paper or cloth that a person could use to create pouch or cover for a loose-fill insulation? Is hemp fire resistant or is there a material with a cardboard type thickness?

material favoritku: seaweed! because it is edible 😋

I think the green algae building would be practical.

I just saw a video about a company called '' Just BioFiber '' that manufactures hemp building blocks that are structural and insulated besides being environmentally friendly, mold and mildew resistant, fire-resistant, air cleaning, and many other great things you have to see. Please do a search for them on KZfaq and check them out so you can possibly do a piece on them as well. I have no affiliation with them whatsoever by the way. I just like seeing companies doing good for the environment and others get their much deserved praise and attention. Thanks for what you do and keep up the great work!

but is it load bearing?

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I think people used too much of cork trees, so shouldn't be a good idea to use it even more as material

Thank you for this informative video , I was wondering if recycling plastic is conceders as sustainable material or a new plastic product is more eco friendly ? And same question for the glass

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do you have any pros and cons for all of these alternatives? they all sound pretty good but normaly there is always a bad side about it :D and by the way I just read an article about solarcarports and solar bicyle paths which might be worth looking at for you :) Sadly those pages are in german but if you want I can send them to you anyways

I like the way ya think, but mushrooms and even coffee?? I guess ya learn something everyday on YT

Sadly poberty in Colombia is now up to 52% and we are second to none when it comes to corruption. Great video by the way.

Volume is too low. Up it please.

Could you please increase the Volume. Plus, this video is devoid of any translation. Please add, English translation.

4:24 Did "Nova Pochna" pay you for commercial? ))

No bamboo?

1° Cork 2°Coffee Husk 3° Newspaper Wood 4° Mycellium 5° Algae 6° Recycle Diappers 7° Cob 8° Plastic Bricks 9° Polyurethane 10° Seaweed

can the diapers be turned into building bricks

NO HEMPCRETE?

These all seem they would take a long time to source. And all though mycelium buildings sound amazing they are still not as accessible. We need solutions that are tangible like cob, repurposed wood, tires, plastic bottles. People are doing that now not like these materials that seem to talk about in the future!

Add us to plastic bricks! 90% plastic waste, 10% construction waste and stronger than concrete. ♻

I think India ,mud house is best .cork everywhere not found .

diapers, diapers, diapers, diapers

Hippies

my teacher is making me write 5 facts about every eco material.😔

a lot of these ideas are just concept-stage and barely scrape the surface. They are being promoted by people who dont really understand the science involved. The sprayed foam shown here is isocyanate - its extremely dangerous, highly toxic (note the hazmat suit & oxygen) non-biodegradable and generally very bad for the planet. Some real-world highly useful options include solvent-free paints eg Lakeland Paints - which are solvent-free, VOC-free, Non-toxic and actually edible ! Surely, paint solvent is a tiny concern you might think ?? Not at all - paint emitted 24 MILLION tons of greenhouse-gas solvents into the atmosphere last year and every year (WHO 180 et al) - and these solvents are on average 20-50x worse than CO2. So - if you really want to do something to help counter global warming you could do a lot worse than switch to one of the VOC-Free paints out there.

So, which of those materials can replace cement and steel adequately as alternates in a high-rise building? That's the problem. Steel and cement are here to stay, even after the world ends because of them.

No mention of wood?

Cork based on this video would require 9 years between harvesting with older cork trees yielding better quality cork? How many trees would be needed for one home? Sustainable is questionable. Coffee husk mix with plastic means it won’t break down naturally once its life cycle is over: hardly eco friendly. Newspaper panels using newspaper sheets sounds great at first for reusing materials treated as waste until it mentioned adhesive is the means for sheeting them together. Depending on the adhesive, this could be great or completely opposite of that. Would hardly call them eco friendly....

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Tree bark doesn’t grow back I read

Cork is not sustainable, one, the trees are attacked by bugs and are not harvested that often, if you get demand surpassing this then that is a no go and idiotic and a strain on the environment. Clay and straw is dead easy, and something that can be produced almost for free. At least there are ideas but possibly some needs to be rethinked. x

The narrator states that over 6.3 Trillion tons of paper is thrown away each year. However, our research has shown that total paper usage in the UK is 12.5 Million tons. There seems to be an error in your interesting video.

they are nappies not diapers

Most of these are not sustainable building materials.

work on your sound production,cant even hear anything.

Unfortunately I don’t think America will ever go This route with capitalism. Because corporations will keep killing any new idea that doesn’t benefit them

This sounds like a college/high-school project. No one is going to use Cob or Cork. Just stop buying the newest electronics. And don't buy EVs. Stop buying products with single use plastics, stop buying cosmetics. Stop buying a new car and fix the one you have. Alot of things start with the individual.

These are all amazing materials that are new to me, apart from cob. The energy producing algae seems to have a lot of possibilities.

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