I agree with you. Good to see other people interested in those projects!

I could understand what he was saying but because I have a medical condition which makes sensory processing challenging I found the addition of music so disturbing I couldn’t follow this to the end.

Music in TV shows, the news, KZfaq, etc. is quite annoying! I miss so much of what is said.

That's why I love the comment section of other people. I learn from other people and implement what I learn on my channel. Thank u folks 😊

It’s simple turn on closed captions and turn the volume off it will. Help

I think they fixed it!

Would you join this type of community/lifestyle?

@@discoverFigureitout for sure

@@discoverFigureitoutpersonally? Totally.

@@discoverFigureitout Have you seen Squatting and homeless community?

Where?

I don't know if there are many like this, but the U.S. has many communes that are always welcoming new people. It is a bit of a swim though

The uk seems to be especially like this, people living in neighbourhoods never knowing their neighbours or even looking up to say hi

I was as well, but now all I think about (aside from the intense labor) is the off gassing of the tires. I brought this up in the comments of a video on an earthship home a while back and unintentionally offended the person. But they didn't offer any counter information. Other than that, I really do like the idea.

​@@tracy419the tires produce gasses only when exposed to weather. In the dirt (and some cement between the living space) they do not produce gas. That's why they are a cool building item, because at the same time you take them from the tire piles where they produce the gas.

@@tracy419 There is no hard and fast rule that you absolutely must use tires for your Earthship wall. As mentioned in the video it was taking too long and going overbudget so they used an alternative that is functionally the same.

@@TheRealHonestInquiry Why not just use compressed earth blocks instead? Material is available everywhere, has no cost and the machinery is DIYable. Anyway, I'm curious to know what alternatives you used.

@@mariaoiklou973 Ummm... No. They may produce very little gas when out of the heat and sunlight, but they are still off gassing. Don't believe me, inflate a tire, put it inside for a few months then let the air out. I guarantee you the air coming out of that tire will have a tire smell to it. Is it a health hazard? With the proper ventilation rate, probably not. What's the proper ventilation rate? Who the heck knows, we are just now beginning to get an understanding of indoor chemistry and we don't have a great understanding of what proper ventilation rates really are for "normal" houses, much less for houses built with non-standard materials.

I got the impression they just don't ask too much from the people that are in the community. You pitch in to maintain shared areas instead of paying some contractor to do it for you. However, you live your own private life much as you would anywhere else.

Didn't you listen? It's for everyone to learn the necessary skills to maintain the whole community, for example everyone learns how to cook or clean or maintain the clean drinking water system, or build a house, or install electricity, instead of just having one expert and 50 people not knowing anything, so that if anyone leaves or someone dies, it's not a loss, everyone else in the whole community can take over and keep doing the necessary maintenance, daily functioning, repair or install anything needed

Fear is anxiety of future. Only way to escape it is to become stronger😊 and leaning to let go. The place without fear is inside you.

Eartships instead of Earthships

I think most earthships separate gray water (kichen, shower, laundry) and black water (toilet). In the grey water system biologically degradable soaps and detergents are used, the water is usually filtered through sand and gravel before being used to water crops. Black water may be directed to a septic tank where organic mater is decomposed by microorganisms, see it as similar to a compost heap just with additional liquid. The resulting water is usually treated in a similar way as the grey water but is not used to water food crops or at least not crops that grow close to the ground.

I'm starting to think it was referring to biodiversity as in various fauna and flora..

I've seen a couple of Earthship builds that used tire bales, very large tire bales, as the back wall. They felt like the performance is similar to the rammed earth tires but does require heavy equipment to unload, position, and stack. The tire wall of the original Earthships rely on the rammed earth for thermal mass and the tires seem like they are mostly just easily moved containers and building blocks.

I would guess breaking up the circular shape of the tires reduces the integrity of the whole structure as circles have no weak point. Cutting the tires open would make them wobbly and make the rammed earth susceptible to decompression I think.

Probably not, I see too little farmland or planted crops around the area and the guy explained that there are people from all different kinds of professions. They probably do get a fair share of produce relative to their plot of land and most of the inhabitants will likely buy locally grown organic produce for the things that they don't grow themselves

You mean vertically? I think you could quite literally increase the size of the whole thing but the main problem is the surface area taken up by the earth wall which functions as a thermal battery. I reckon it would be possible to dig a large pit for a chemical thermal battery based on non-toxic salts and hook it up to a well-insulated multi-story building with a good air ventilation system and heat exchanger but it may be cheaper and easier to just leave out the thermal battery and use the heat/cold storing capacity of the earth itself.

The guy stated that the people who live their are from all kinds of professions so that must mean that many people who live there work jobs outside of their community.

You see, the thing is, that's just BS

An earthship is a sustainable living concept for housing developed by Mike Reynolds. They are usually built from second hand materials. The walls are most often built with discarded car tires which are packed with earth and then sealed up with clay. On the north side there is a thick earthen wall and a glass wall on the south. (Or the other way around on the southern hemisphere) The earth wall and the soil in the tire walls take up the heat from the sun during the day while radiating out this heat at night. I have seen videos of earthships in Canada that only needed additional heating a few days a year in winter!

Why do you think so?

Which radiation?

@@ScheveSneeuwSchuifSchep 😂🐑

Electric cars are way better than petrol/diesel cars.

@@royalroy93 how?

​​​​@@royalroy93yea not really rn. The resources to make the batteries is gathered from machines running on diesel, the electric youre getting from a charging station more often then not is still being generated from burning fossil fuels and youre recharging like 1.75x as often as you would refuel with gasoline. If the car were able to be built from the ground up to completion with only clean energy then were able to reliably be recharged with clean energy only it would be what it is advertised as and by definition would be clean and helping the environment. However to do that then the (lets use tesla for ease of use. ) tesla would have an atronomical price increase and at that point why would Tesla or any manufacturer want to continue? They wouldnt, it would be too costly as then the market shrinks. Less and less xan afford the vehicle so costs go way up and revenues go way down. the primary goal is to make money off of you. The way it currently works is that you are being sold a lie and being thankful for it.

@@wolfeyq7536 not to mention their heavy wear on tyres some needing to be replaced after 7-500 k s. The cars weigh 30 pc more so that’s wear and tear on roads as well

Perfect is the enemy of good. It's funny to see people spouting big oil talking points, nitpicking people trying to improve the way they live. I'll take an EV any day because there's a wealth of ways to generate electricity locally, clean or not. Not so much oil production/refrining. It's not all about having the perfect environmental solution, it's about self reliability and not being beholden to oil and all the baggage associated with it.

Civilization is a cult. Life is a cult. Blue Oyster band is a cult😂

I don’t see fences or gates trapping them in.

Why is it a cult?

It's an earthship though, look it up, it's Mike Reynolds who coined the term.

why do you think it is not sustainable? If you charge an electric vehicle with renewable energy it is driving with zero emissions

​@@sauresahne127this is true but the problem is in the production of the vehicles; the materials needed for electric car batteries cannot be sourced ethically and sustainably at the moment.

You are more likely to get an answer via a more "official" way to contact them. Maybe they have a website?

@@NickRedmark Sorry I'm kidding, while I would love to live in a place like that, I'm settled with kids haha

This whole thing is actually the idea of an American named Mike Reynolds who has a whole community based on this idea in Arizona. What is communist about this? Why do you hate it so much?

Then you oppose all kinds of genuine human interaction.

Nobody cares what you like, anonymous online hater. Go click on some click bait and leave the educational documentaries for adults.

I love the stability and maturity of exposition. Seeing someone standing and talking personalizes the space, and helps me visualize not just what it looks like, the nuts and bolts, but also the impact to the people living there, which is way more important than the nuts and bolts. And we have the freedom to disagree.

While I see the point you make and agree with it for the main part I heavily disagree with your final conclusion that modern cities and industrial agriculture are the only solution. It is no way forward and does not solve nor even adress any of the problems we are facing.