Garbage Warrior - earthships self-sustaining off- grid contained homes

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An Off Grid Camper

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Earthship Seminar 2009 DVD1

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Offthegridbuild - Building a Tire Wall

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Pretty cool dude, remember seeing that Garbage Warrior thing a couple years back. Definitely some inspiration there, worth the watch for any off-griders.

Dunes and valleys inside the dykes would be something to be proud of.

If you guys never heard of stupid is gone...

5*!!! No mortgate or interest for the banksters!

Build where and whilst you live!

I watched this a few days ago. Really enjoyed it.

Adding this to my favorites so don't lose it. Want to watch vids later.

It's very difficult to innovate these days. The last county to fall under FEMA building rules, with permit requirements, was Idaho County, back in the 1970s. Our homes are suffering.

We wanted to add a sloping glass small walk-in enclosure for plants onto the south side of our garage a few years back. Bought some used patio windows, large and uniform double pane glass, for a low price.

Found that we couldn't put them up without a permit which required an architect's plan properly submitted to authorities. Had 5 inspections because we put an electric wire into it. Waiting for these added weeks to the project. The cost ended up being more than 10X what we intended to pay, about $25,000.

Now we no longer consider changing a window, upgrading the porches, or making any other small improvement because the cost of permits is way more than we can handle.

You can see the results of this all over the country.

Thanks, OP, for offering a spot of hope.