Documentary Reveals Life in Stunning Eco-Friendly Earthship Homes
What is an Earthship? In this documentary by RT called Green Citadels, a community near Taos, New Mexico demonstrates how they live in harmony with the Earth by creating homes that are made from the earth as well as recycled materials such as tires, bottles, cans, etc. which enables them to live almost entirely off-grid. Earthship homes produce food, clean water, effective sewage management, amazing temperature regulation and insulation, and more.
Moreover, aside from the amazing way that these homes work, the architecture is stunning and the homes look beautiful!
Not all of us can make the commitment to live in an Earthship community, but this should change the way we think about housing in general. Governments and corporations punish people who want to collect rainwater, use solar panels, grow food in their own lawns, and in many ways keep us stuck in the Levittown, cookie-cutter model where we depend on the corporate state for all our resources.
In nations of the Global South (aka the third world), Earthship architecture is more feasible because there is less influence of corporations and banks wanting to keep people stuck on the grid in order to profit off our use of natural resources. In many cases in the Global South, Earthships are very economic and a necessity to create housing that empowers people to create their own resources and grow their own food so they can have their basic standards of living met in countries that are stricken with some degree of poverty.
It is strange that developed nations want to turn their citizens into subjects and keep them shackled to corporate bondage, colluding with companies to create monopolies instead of allowing healthy competition. The Earthship communities all over the world should inspire us to at least achieve some level of detachment from the grid or to rebuild our homes with more sustainable materials like hempcrete, and of course pressure our state and local governments to stop penalizing people for doing what is the right thing to do for our kids, grandkids, and the planet.
