Garbage Warrior (2007)

By Anonymous (IMDB): Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides […]

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March 13, 2014

By Anonymous (IMDB): Imagine a home that heats itself, that provides its own water, hat grows its own food. Imagine that it needs no expensive technology, that it recycles its own waste, that it has its own power source. And now imagine that it can be built anywhere, by anyone, out of the things society throws away. Thirty years ago, architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such a home – then set out to build it. A visionary in the classic American mode, Reynolds has been fighting ever since to bring his concept to the public.

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Michael Reynolds

He believes that in an age of ecological instability and impending natural disaster, his buildings can – and will – change the way we live. Shot over three years in the USA, India and Mexico, Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick architect Michael Reynolds, his crew of renegade house builders from New Mexico, and their fight to introduce radically different ways of living. A snapshot of contemporary geo-politics and an inspirational tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world.

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44 Comments

  1. David McNally August 20, 2013 at 3:36 am - Reply

    Bureaucracy sucks!

  2. Afinfas August 27, 2013 at 2:16 pm - Reply

    Simply great! True inspiring!!!

  3. Greenage Barcelona September 2, 2013 at 11:26 am - Reply

    greenage !!! says hi to all garbage warriors in the world!!!!!!

  4. M00Nabove September 3, 2013 at 8:11 pm - Reply

    Excellent documentary! Thanks a lot for posting this!!!! :) Respect to all
    those who try to change things for better even though they face endless and
    daunting bureaucracy. Or worse.

  5. Chris Shaw October 10, 2013 at 5:55 pm - Reply

    Great watch…. Just the way we need to continue to think, to move forward
    in a self sustaining lifestyle. The hows, the whys and the whens…

  6. RamsesReturns October 16, 2013 at 11:29 am - Reply

    Great work and documentary until the end. It turned into an Establishment
    propaganda film. Global Warming is nonsense, so it had to be changed to
    Climate Change. The root causes for “Climate Change” is the suns activity,
    chemical spraying, and high voltage weather engineering as in HAARP. Make
    no mistake. The same people that cried global warming and now climate
    change are the ones who want to see chaotic weather, in hopes that a
    “global” solution I.E. NWO can be enforced upon all people.

  7. tncnbnn October 29, 2013 at 3:44 pm - Reply

    i agree with your words. i think this guy just didn’t know that yet. the
    film was released in 2007. I was worried about global warming in 2007, now
    I know better

  8. tncnbnn October 29, 2013 at 4:09 pm - Reply

    but ya, really…the court stuff was boring and outdated propaganda. i
    wanted to see how to make, theories behind, these buildings. does
    illustrate how completely lame politics are. dang, are they lame

  9. lastdollarfilms October 30, 2013 at 11:07 pm - Reply

    So when was the last time you had your meds changed. You might want to look
    into that soon.

  10. littlejimmy95 October 31, 2013 at 2:52 am - Reply

    BEST!!! Thank you!! Favorited and recommend!

  11. connieps10 October 31, 2013 at 5:17 am - Reply

    I love earthships…keep creating!

  12. RamsesReturns October 31, 2013 at 5:52 am - Reply

    No meds needed, I have always been way ahead of those like you. I never met
    a dupe who didn’t come to my thinking… “EVENTUALLY.” Correction however:
    The same people that have SPREAD THE THE NONSENSE OF MAN MADE CO2/global
    warming so PEOPLE LIKE YOU TO CRY ABOUT, and now climate change are the
    ones who want to see chaotic weather, in hopes that a “global” solution
    I.E. NWO can be enforced upon all people.

  13. lastdollarfilms October 31, 2013 at 5:54 am - Reply

    Yes yes yes and the mother ship will return soon and all that too.

  14. RamsesReturns October 31, 2013 at 5:55 am - Reply

    That is good to hear… you care enough to think about what the
    Establishment media tries to sell us, enough to check the facts. Good on
    you! ~Cheers

  15. LadyHannahBoo October 31, 2013 at 5:02 pm - Reply

    Well done, Mike and your team on all your hard work and for never losing
    sight of your dream to make the world a better place one earth rammed tyre
    at a time. Respect!!! HUGS

  16. Gunnar Þór Nilsen November 5, 2013 at 9:31 am - Reply

    This is the future, and i am working on a project that in time wil give me
    this freedom in life

  17. Leo Podstanicky November 5, 2013 at 7:18 pm - Reply

    put in on blog, proven to be skyrocketing with interest, respect Mike

  18. NeilofSWC November 8, 2013 at 11:06 am - Reply

    you dont need to do anything to save yourself from the earth being damaged,
    it will take at least a few decades still before any significant damage is
    done if any, actually significant damage has started already, natural
    disasters are much more frequent and powerful than they used to be, still
    there is only 1 thing that can really save u & that is the way, the truth &
    the life

  19. NeilofSWC November 11, 2013 at 12:30 am - Reply

    we cant save ourselves but we do need to take better care of this planet, i
    think if people are so focused on capitalism, then at least develop
    renewable clean energy technology

  20. Holly Dentry November 21, 2013 at 1:25 am - Reply

    awesome!!!

  21. Bailey Rolfe November 22, 2013 at 1:52 am - Reply

    Fucking amazing. It just shows, humans need some sort of major catastrophic
    natural event to happen for us to open our fucking eyes and see what is
    happening to our planet and to actually induce change.

  22. Pete O December 10, 2013 at 11:20 pm - Reply

    I would give anything to live a life style like Mike and his mates.

  23. Steve Densmore December 12, 2013 at 11:00 am - Reply

    Are there any stenches coming from the recyclable materials used?

  24. trevgoodchild December 23, 2013 at 9:56 am - Reply

    I don’t see it as radical, just that the norm has drifted away from
    sensibility.

  25. Alex Padrutt December 25, 2013 at 12:24 pm - Reply

    Who’s the musician at 34:04???

  26. Elvya Dulcimer January 2, 2014 at 11:34 pm - Reply

    This man deserves the Nobel Prize!!

  27. 936Dancer January 5, 2014 at 10:01 pm - Reply

    We The People must serve them (the government “officials”) Notice to Vacate
    and Throw the Bums OUT!

  28. D1AMONDEY3S January 8, 2014 at 5:21 pm - Reply

    This is very cool and inspiring. I admire those who actively change the
    world around themselves for the betterment of man and earth.

  29. Yael Marga January 15, 2014 at 7:13 am - Reply

    SO grateful for this man and his perscistance

  30. b nice January 25, 2014 at 1:12 am - Reply

    what is earthship biotecture & why are world leaders not promoting the
    reality of:
    homes that …
    • Heat and cool themselves naturally via solar/thermal dynamics
    • Collect their own power from the sun and wind
    • Harvest their own water from rain and snow melt
    • Contain and treat their own sewage on site
    • Produce a significant amount of food
    • Are constructed using the byproducts of modern society like cans,
    bottles and tires.
    World leaders are not promoting earthship living because *______*.
    Please watch – Garbage Warrior: Full Length Documentary – for in depth
    overview of the development of earthship living.

  31. Beatriz Sanchez-Carnerero Guijarro January 28, 2014 at 8:34 pm - Reply

    impresive…

  32. Craig Weeks February 24, 2014 at 11:11 pm - Reply

    thanks for posting!!

  33. Marko Nuages March 1, 2014 at 3:46 am - Reply

    Does anybody know what is the best book to become acquainted with the
    Earthship building techniques? I had a quick look at Earthship vol 1, but
    it seems it was published in 1990, so I am guessing there is a chance some
    of the latest technological devolpments and findings would not be in it. Am
    I wrong?

  34. Spencer Black March 4, 2014 at 9:20 pm - Reply

    Nobel Peace Prize ? Yes.

  35. Marijana Batkovic March 5, 2014 at 7:20 pm - Reply

    Great ideas, thanks for sharing!

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  37. Wade Hawkins March 18, 2014 at 6:35 am - Reply

    I often site this work as an example of how ridiculous and oppressive our
    system has come and how government regulation actually stands in the way of
    clean living.

  38. strid8 March 20, 2014 at 7:07 pm - Reply

    I love this documentary; I’ve watched, and rewatched, more times than I
    care to admit.

  39. helio loureiro April 3, 2014 at 6:50 pm - Reply

    Michael Reynolds the Biotecture

  40. dennis n May 2, 2014 at 2:43 pm - Reply

    video stops working half through.

  41. MAXIMUS MAX May 3, 2014 at 2:11 pm - Reply

    How does this only have 26k views???!

  42. Meeks4487 May 18, 2014 at 10:56 pm - Reply

    Politics as usual!

  43. Ugnė Krikštanaitė May 20, 2014 at 1:43 pm - Reply

    Is there anything about end-of-life vehicles?

  44. Hannah Ziebarth June 8, 2014 at 4:50 pm - Reply

    51:53 HOLY SHIT it’s Hitler!! lol

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