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1:31 i feel like i'm like in a herd of buffalo and they're all stampeding toward a thousand foot drop off and they're just running over the edge and i'm in that herd and i'm like i ain't going there you know i'm not going to go down that way so i have to somehow affect the whole herd so that they will take a left turn or a right turn and not go off this edge and so if humanity takes the planet down the tubes i'm dead i'm trying to save my ass and that is a powerful force
2:44 wonderful inventive unique person who looks at life in a different way from most people yes always full of ideas in fact when mike becomes quiet you know that there's an idea hatching ahead of his time unusual likes to do things his own way stubborn i was raised as a baptist no dancing no drinking no gambling so i got the hell out of dodge
3:32 i went to architectural school in the university of cincinnati took all the architectural courses got my degree and i began right then to think that architecture as it's as it stood then was worthless had nothing to do with the planet it had barely had anything to do with people and what they needed i love to draw i love to build but the profession of architecture is nowhere near addressing the issues that we are faced with they have the opportunity to really guide us and take us to where we need to go and they're not they're taking us where we don't need to go
4:19 we're running out of oil we're running out of water we have global warming with populations expanding for many reasons we don't have time we need to be doing something now tomorrow morning to get your black water under control yeah all right is that working like we wanted it to do like three in each of these tops yeah the tops will be limited together i started all this thinking with quality of life in mind we're talking about survival now
5:13 and it's all good so it's 24 and a half with no sun and power being used that's the final overflow that just goes to the septic of this but the final overflow for all the planters is right here we know that in the future we are rendering this planet damn near uninhabitable so as we move closer toward that we're trying to devise
5:58 a method of living that allows people to take care of themselves the phoenix there is nothing coming into this house no power lines no gas lines no sewage lines going out no water lines coming in no energy being used so we're sitting on 6 000 gallons of water food growing sewage internalized 70 degrees space year round what these kind of houses are doing is taking every aspect of your life and putting it into your own hands a family of four could totally survive here without even going to the store
6:48 so that whole area is going to be food production yeah with birds and insects flying around then out here is going to be goats and chickens and ducks so this will be literally an amazon jungle with 20 foot tall trees and little platforms up there where you can hang out with trees birds parrots uh canaries you know bugs bees butterflies it's a direction for humanity really i've been doing it for 30 years and i think i'm starting to scratch the surface of what is available in this gold mine that we're starting to penetrate
7:43 k-town solar 109 the world's most powerful solar radio station and it's time to open up the sports page for today and i got to tell you what a wild and i mean wild week it was in high school football playoffs over the weekend two of the most shocking results i think in the history of high school mike's biggest obsession is work definitely work and i wake up in the middle of the night to get a drink of water or something there's mike ling there staring into space
8:34 i'm always dreaming about the room that i'm working on or whatever i was sleeping i had a dream and i just saw this seashell type shape that you would walk into and but then i took the sketch to ted and told him you know i just dreamed it's dead and here's what i'm trying to get and i made pictures and everything and then we talked about how to do it and then ted made it happen and i take my dreams to them and they make my dreams happen and then it becomes their dreams too
9:28 go in the bottles they're jewels you know this is garbage and it comes out like stained glass jewels my dad saved everything mayonnaise jars milk cartons keys he saved everything in the basement and you go down there and every
10:14 mayonnaise jar that we had ever used was down there he didn't know what to do with him he didn't have any he didn't really have uses for him he just said that's too good to throw away this is the first house built out of beer cans it's called the thumb house
11:01 because it looks like a thumb it's actually in as good a repair as any any of the ones after it but see there you can see there's still you know there's that's the beer can building blocks right there we made houses with bricks in my world so i made a brick out of cans wired together with little pieces of foil for reflectors i built two or three houses this way and went on to just using cans by themselves it's a solid wall 35 years later
11:47 first hint of the beginning of orienting windows to the south i was just getting aware of the fact that you can you can get some solar gain into a room by doing this from doing what i've been doing as long as i have and seeing that cities are real close to dying are falling apart because of all the infrastructure failing and they're just dangerous areas of chaos that can't support themselves any longer so i see them getting abandoned and i see beyond that people going back to the cities just to mine out the goods
12:40 what else do we have on this planet that we throw away and we have it in abundance tires tires were resilient and thermal and super strong and didn't take cement and and you know you can build a whole tire wall with dirt and a shovel and tires he's totally obsessed he's very one-pointed very single-minded and uh yeah he has very strong focus for certain things and we beat the earth into the tires of sledgehammers and it was really tight it's like a compacted ninety percent brick in the early seventies they're talking about solar and trying to store thermal mass in houses and i'm getting a bit of a consciousness of thermal mass
13:27 beating dirt into tires with mass mass holds temperature and i'm like oh my god this thermal mass thing is intense i mean it's like man it's powerful thermal mass once you have established it around you it doesn't go away this is the first one that we actually called in our ship i needed a house because i was just getting married to chris and here it is 20 years later and we still live in it because it works
14:18 very simple easy to build that's all beer cans plastered over there's no doors there's no wall it's basically a series of u-shaped rooms all connected with a greenhouse all of the glass is facing the sun and the low winter sun comes right in and floods the house and is absorbed into the massive walls of the tires and just stored there just heating wise there's just no heating bill there's no heating or cooling bill here we have a fireplace we use it on christmas that's it it's a big deal to get ready for winter here because you can die
15:03 because it gets 30 below even 35 below zero fahrenheit here your tongue can freeze to your lips if you aren't careful it gets that cold and here we've been living here almost 20 years with no heating system that takes a huge bit of stress off of the person but it also takes it off of the planet
16:09 this is a compound that we started working on uh 30 years ago this is like a little testing site really this whole decade of work here was just evolution you couldn't worry about what it looked like you just wanted it to work then we built a giant windmill here that's been taken off of the building now and it worked so well that we had to build a building around it because it was about to take off
16:56 it made a huge amount of power so all of these buildings just represent trial and error experiments and a learning situation that's the first building right there they call it the grandfather of earthships because it was the first building that really tried to put it all together this was the first absolutely
17:42 off of all grids building that we did and maybe first one it was ever done i mean it's definitely a wild shape made to go up and get the wind this was the first place where i put wind solar greenhouse garbage building everything together in one building and this is what it ended up looking like everything was intense everything about what we were doing and the buildings and the life was just like absolutely striking intense the whole time people would come out here and they'd never want to leave it was a time of magic that's what i can say
18:27 living in that building i mean this is like 25 years ago i had my own power i had food growing i didn't need heat i was like jesus christ man i am free i am absolutely free the state of mind that that put you in you can get up in the morning and you own your life i can do whatever i want because i don't have to do anything to stay alive we have the potential to enhance the planet trees enhance the
19:14 planet so people could go way further i can see the earth glowing like a sun just from what people do to it just making the earth sing like music rather than [ __ ] floating in rivers and chemicals in the air and and stuff like that i've always thought that if you're doing something right for people they'll find you we put it out there in a website we wrote books that got out there of course all the magazine articles and everything got out there and it attracted some people that ended up working for us they became our crews it's not so much an adoption it's more
19:59 like a punishment maybe our parasitic relationship one of the two uh well whatever it is we can't get rid of it so we're trying to all live with it i found phil in a bus station crying i took him in under my wing and here he is look at this drawing i mean i i couldn't build a damn thing from that this is ted where did you meet i had to take that uh he was [ __ ] on a rock i believe why am i doing this for money you're gonna get rich no yeah he probably looks at us like his sons and we look at him like you know
20:44 like a step dad you know that you can hang out and party with and i always tell mike that you just you're like a freak magnet he attracts the weirdest people the weirdest clients to put the crew together to build a community for themselves you can't get any better than that so when we settled this community we designated 10 acres and they all got their memberships which turned into actual building lots well we all paid the same amount and we all drew a number out of the hat and then we got the lot that we got i was so happy just own a small piece of land i didn't know how big it was until
21:29 we got the survey here i just knew it went from over there to over there and now i can put my house kind of in the middle of it it was fair it was equal the richer person couldn't afford the better lot you know there were people that got in for very very affordable prices you know down payment less than spending a night out on the town at a fancy restaurant it was uh late september when we got out here and first snow was starting to fall and we got out here late afternoon yeah i was trained as an architect and then graduated and chose to live in a dirt hole and build a house around myself
22:20 pitch my tent it's windy as [ __ ] hell i'd come home from work my tent be like blown over okay well i'll [ __ ] fix my tent go out and pound that evening seven eight more tires it took us about five or six years to build the the first part of it and then we've had it on of course but you know we did it on weekends and out of pocket so in about two months i had my main u walls up my tent right in the middle blocked from the wind i was like this is [ __ ] fantastic you know what i mean it was like i got a windblock we lived on the site in a little tarp structure in the bottom of the excavation here living in dirt living in an uninsulated
23:06 space my water would freeze overnight i mean i didn't have a flush toilet until this february 11 years later i was inspired to build my earth ship by watching the amazing people around me who were doing it when they were pounding tires and living out of tarp tents making spaghetti together on rainy nights and playing guitar and upside down wheelbarrows for chairs and having bonfires i had never experienced a bunch of people working that hard so i was like this isn't a bunch of hippies you know and i was like yeah there's the occasional hippie that this appeals to but i was just like this has made so much sense their story of of them building their earthships with
23:51 half-baked ideas that weren't as cool as they are now and doing it themselves on no money and working for us trying to make a little money to get by on while they're doing it a dozen in that subculture did it and now they're all sitting there happy as hell uh
24:53 she doesn't know the difference between this house and a you know conventional home like that i grew up in but it's just part of her that the house takes care of her and supplies power and heats itself and has plants that provide food and you know that's and the water comes from the roof she knows all that and she thinks that's the way it is and that's the way everyone needs to think this used to be my office it's really probably about 30 years old these are the old
25:38 creosote gallon creosote cans you know so we were just using everything and this one was supposed to make you fly like a crow so we wanted the vision of living this way to take off but we were in magic for sure for a long time you know the crew always becomes like a family and we would uh work together for four five six years and then another group you know they'd fade out and others would come in here in the last decade though
26:26 these people ain't going away you know the people that are with me now they've been here 10 years they say this is their life and this is my life and so they're beyond family we're here for the duration you discover gold in your backyard you have to work to keep it a secret
27:14 all of a sudden we're getting requests from all over the country and world to do earth ships earthship communities and so on so then i got the idea myself well i'll do a community myself it's an off-grid sustainable community translate this into cities holy [ __ ] i bought the land up at reach to do the reach community because i wanted to really challenge the concept on the slope of a mountain where no power water could be gotten or whatever we learned the systems at reach power water and sewage and it was in fact the first new mexico sustainable testing site reach was successful
28:00 now i want to go further so i go on the other side of town and i get 650 acres this time you spend thousands thousands of dollars in the process of getting land to have a house on that's ridiculous why don't i just buy a chunk of land not make any profit on the land just have everybody own it in common and all their money goes straight to their house we don't need infrastructure each one of our buildings has everything it needs power water sewage right in it we took thousands and thousands of dollars of expenses out of the equation and it worked now we have a bunch of people out here
28:47 no mortgage payment no utility bill and they're happy and we are ongoing i'm not saying that i really consciously wanted to use people as guinea pigs but i was using a life situation as a as a guinea pig in a sense because it could not work out for you people piss and moan if there's a slightest little problem and you learn from that if they're all complaining about it being too hot or too cold or not enough electricity or not enough water we're going to learn and we're going to fix it well this was the one where i had the two-story greenhouse
29:34 it originally had a sloped front face on it which just basically caught too much sun and it was too hot no we had ventilation and everything but the sun just the direct winter sun coming in at a slope two stories high was just too much some guy wanted to buy the house he's a rich kid who came out here to just be in the wilderness and said i'll pay anything for it i said okay i'll have you sign a release that it is an experimental house and you can buy it
30:20 calls me up like a couple months later and has me come over says will you come over i got a problem and he took me in his kitchen and he is a writer and he had an heirloom family heirloom typewriter out on the kitchen table working and the typewriter was melting the plastic was running i learned that this is powerful you know i want to learn to control it and i'm glad i'm just glad i didn't kill anybody you know fry a baby or something you know [ __ ]
31:16 it takes clients to develop ideas in building you can't figure out all your ideas on your own one house you need many houses to do it on you can't afford to build many many houses so you do need clients and people have take issue with him because in the early days he did it badly the houses leaked they were hot they looked like they landed from mars or another planet most of the time you'll get good clients that realize that it's experimental what you're doing and some things may not work or some things could be better then you get the occasional client who thinks oh it's experimental but everything must work perfectly because because that's how houses are
32:01 and then those people they're disappointed and sometimes they sue when you're doing something like running sewage through the living room and building a building out of garbage if you really do seriously [ __ ] up it's ten times as bad and so you know if i had a roof leak it was lawsuit if i you know had a smell in a bathroom it was lawsuit if i had a house that was 60 degrees rather than 70 it was lawsuit the powers that be in the architecture world and in the planning world you know they just can't see any other way than the way they've got established and that's how the board of architects basically uh crammed down his throat
32:48 that no you there's only one way to do an architectural contract and this is it and if you can't do that then you can't be an architect the architects board asked me to bring charges against mike reynolds so everything that he was doing fell outside the scope of what new mexico would consider legal construction she said basically they're going to nitpick you to death for the rest of your life because of what you're doing standardized design and construction is so important because it means safety i was breaking rules and laws right and left there's no question about it it's not just the the design but it was actually the building of these earthships that was a problem
33:34 which granted he wasn't playing by the [ __ ] rules rules are made to be broken i was twisting the law to try to get sustainable housing out there folks the worst outcome that could have ever been for mike was he'd lose his license and he did every time we stuck our head out of the foxhole we're getting the [ __ ] face shot off and the county writes me a letter saying that it has come to our attention
34:19 that you have developed three communities which may be in violation of one or more of the aforementioned regulations and here i was breaking every law in the book and i said well fred navares said i can do that well he's dead who the [ __ ] are you suddenly there was a change of planning regime and within a few weeks time everything started to go really badly for the company and for the community they had a big notebook like this thick even thicker than this reynolds subdivision violations subdivision law stated that to convey
35:06 property you have to have power water sewage you have to have everybody owning their specific piece of land you have to prove that you can provide all these utilities to it you have to put in roads you have to do all these super expensive things to qualify as a subdivision when i was hired to be planning director in 1995 that was the one of the first charges they gave me was to make sure that everybody lived by the same rules they didn't put any roadways in there's no service no water they didn't put anything in and the state legislature at that time just said okay enough is enough we filed five subdivision actions at the same
35:53 time he came out with his with his code enforcers with guns on i mean they shut us down so i got busted on building architecture and subdivision all at the same time i busted my ass for like 10 years to be an architect and it was taken away from me i mean there's no way that's not going to shake you up to some extent in terms of questioning your own competence and abilities and are you doing the right thing
36:50 we fired the crews and we're down to two or three people and job sites were shut down and people that were waiting to build their permits were denied even though the county had already cashed their checks spirits fell low and people moved out and there wasn't a lot of work and you felt like the county was disapproving of what you were doing even though you were trying to do something good for yourself even logic failed at that point to some extent because there were so many things against me i'm looking at like i've lost my method of livelihood
37:36 i've lost my respect i've lost my credentials basically i lost everything what do i do when people ask you what your heroes are or who your people that influenced you or impressed you one of the first ones i ever say is noah of course he built a boat it wouldn't vote giant wouldn't boat out in the middle of the desert and there was no sea around and he was building a boat and they were calling my fool but he saw something coming
38:22 he didn't draw for two years you know he didn't draw a house design or he wasn't able to think about any details or how to you know improve upon the buildings so yeah he was just occupied by law just the atmosphere around the entire company was everything was in question at this point i'm assessing my life and my situation do i want to spend the next decade proving these people wrong on an ego trip or do i want to however i can prove sustainable housing and building i went in with my tail between my legs i said what do you want me to do and they
39:09 said be a subdivision to make the greater world a legal subdivision mike had to develop it in phases and then have the county come in and inspect every phase this is the application for phase 3 and 4 to be a subdivision we have to provide 14 copies of this archaeologists had to walk the land and look for arrowheads that cost twenty thousand dollars and all they did was walk walk around and pick up arrowheads engineers had to
39:55 engineer the terrain and make diagrams and drawings that nobody ever uses that was fourteen thousand dollars just endless horse [ __ ] we have a person who could not see any bigger than the rule book and i think that's the issue that we have before us right now on this planet we've got lots of people that can't see any bigger than the rule book and beyond the rule book is global warming the amount of expense and time i mean it was years of his life and other people's
40:43 it took us seven years to completely get the entire development open again yes all of a sudden i went from a turd in the punch bow to you know a flying fish they now see him as a shining example of how to create a subdivision in taos county jumped through all the hubs and became a legal subdivision
41:29 selling acres of land and lots and building a repetitive little generic house for a period of time there i was not exploring i was not evolving i was taking what i had learned to that date and keying it in to convention as clearly and legally and straightforward as i could to try and not make any waves just do something that they could relate to
42:14 for a few years and get stable with the powers to be we lost this ability to dream an idea and do it the next day he let us the right to like experiment and create new buildings and innovations on the buildings you've got to be able to make mistakes otherwise you never evolve housing type and so that's what the rest the country is is still stuck in the same housing that they were in in world war ii or world you know world war one it's the same exact housing everybody's so stressed about getting sued that they can't make a single mistake so there's no evolution of design i had lost
43:00 the freedom to fail we're facing a future where we're really gonna on an individual basis gonna have to take care of ourselves new mexico is the state where they tested the atomic bomb they designated several thousand acres of land to be just absolutely destroyed with something that they didn't even know whether or not it would keep on exploding or not they took extreme risks in the interest of national security
43:46 so what i'm saying is can't we make a few hundred acre test sites with no holes barred to test methods of living for the future it's a test site they allow it for bombs they test automobiles they test airplanes they should test housing at this point then i began to realize that we needed a change in law and legislation to open the door for these kind of things to emerge this time i wasn't going to fight the county this time i was going to fight the state
44:45 sometimes they'll fight the system you have to get into it you know and be part of the system mike in a suit is hilarious i loved it when he put on a suit oh my god i think it's hilarious i think it's great i think he looks like a homeless car salesman or something it's fun to see him get up in there though you know it's like a thumb in the butt of you know reality right there i'm not a screaming flaming hippie trying to bad mouth the existing system i am a part of the system i have become a trojan horse i have infiltrated the system i am the system
45:31 now okay senator what was that horseshit you were just saying there don't be talking to me that way i've crawled up their [ __ ] and i'm gonna change him from the bloodstream i was walking into an arena that i had no experience and no skills for
46:24 it's an extreme bill it's an extreme thing to give citizens the right to step outside the law for five or ten years but outside the law is the place where the information lies and i'm just saying let us go get it yeah this building is a recipe for illness have you got a list of senators you need to talk to this morning yes i'm just going down the list except i'm not going to i'm not going to get to him martinez and see if you can talk to lorraine totally lobbying the [ __ ] out of the whole judiciary committee get them try to talk to them get them
47:11 the flyers you really have to demonstrate to everybody that you're working within the system that you're not coming from outside the system basically it's going to be called a sustainable development testing site act okay i had to tweak every aspect of my being just to be there you know play a game it's like some kind of a board game and you the building is round and you just run around in circles in this building talking to one person talking to another person trying to get into this meeting trying to get into that meeting that's a sewage system in the living room not asking for money just permission to test it's a regulatory issue yeah
47:58 every kind of a demon or troll or ambush you could possibly imagine was there waiting to devour you and your bill all it takes is one guy coming in here that you didn't talk to who has a connection on this committee the boogers your bill one wrong word from the right person and you never know how your bill died we take this technology all over the world and in every country the same problem exists how do we permit this this is too unusual we're asking for
48:44 what we call test sites if a person gets an idea the next morning they can be out there building that idea it's like a gladiator or something you have to go out there and fight off all of the people that are trying to ravage your bill for whatever political reason defending the legalities of the bill against a bank of lawyers who can double talk me up one side and down the other how independent it's independent of conventional discussion what it got to was picking apart words and meanings on page 3 line 10 you used to term real people how are unreal people defined
49:29 there was a tremendous amount of restraint to keep me from splattering people and papers all over the walls of that [ __ ] building you know there were many times when i wanted to just stand up turn the desk over and say this is a load of horseshit i believe in the constitution we don't call people real people we call them something else randall's view is there a term other than real people for real people is there a legal term i'll find one for you okay so in other words what you also mean is the things you say in your definitions i i just think that the bill was drafted very unusually but he's all over it and he doesn't want any of this flowery language
50:19 where's delete how do i delete and then you're going to physically have to draw a line through it your deletions it will not let me change it in a dozen different committees with uh seven or eight people on each committee and each one having a little bone to pick about it we had to just shred the bill piece by piece by piece and deal with everybody's comments on it cannot be sold include real people provision for research they were making destructive criticisms just to stop it because they just didn't understand the
51:05 need for it the bill drafter gary carlson was the one who had to piece that all back together me again a thousand more changes right no not a thousand like eight he just got tired of seeing it over and over and over again come back for redraft redraft redraft redraft but they're minor they're like one word they're little crafty things the whole attitude thing was uh was uh we haven't even begun to think of the ideas but nobody's going to unless they have a forum in which to do it what other ideas are are out there that that you
51:51 you're thinking that would be viable that haven't been tried or tested they were just trying to get their brains around this bill so i had to like pull answers out of my ass really building a building out of water building a building out of contained water there are other ideas out there i don't know what the [ __ ] they are but they're out there and we want this bill to allow us to find them everybody's got an agenda and so when you talk about going through that many committees with that many people and all their different agendas and all the different politics involved this process was laughable america has the the safest cleanest housing in the world my concerns relate to uh really life
52:39 safety and health issues i'm not sure how you can exempt them from some rules and regulations and then say at the same time they're not being violated and i wouldn't want to send a piece of legislation that has contradictions and it's unclear you know i mean again it's just inconsistent language and i find there's a lot of inconsistent language throughout the spill i have a substitute motion to table which is not debatable representative chaney yes representative yes representative foley yes ridiculous amount of human energy mustered and wasted and pissed away to get a teeniest little thing done
53:26 six to three tabled with four days left in the session is a death sentence for the bill we were out of time the dream would have been to have an inside connection to this one committee of lawyers judiciary committee if we could get advice on how to get through that committee we would have a chance thank you it would make it easier for people to choose to develop sustainable methods
54:12 that's the that's the crux of it how do we know that these aren't just a bunch of hippies getting together to set up some kind of commune and not really doing anything but just sort of you know talking the talk not walking the wall if this were to take off then the utility companies are somewhat threatened by this because there are alternatives available to people and they're no longer feeding into a system that obviously is pretty money hungry so how do you answer that actually the utility kit carson electric up in taos likes me because i can get power to people that they can't that they just don't have time to deal with and run the lines and everything so right now it's not a problem it takes vision it does my mom when i was a little girl screaming his cart this tiny little cat that turned
54:59 into a big line said think big you think big and i appreciate that thanks very much i'll see what i can do she's the first one who really tried to understand the bill if i can persuade her to write a good an analysis of it it's in wait isn't that true i don't okay all right so you're going to come back with me in an hour so you know now this language here structures and systems that inherently produce utilities and life support systems for any it's too rural we got to redraft it so that it sounds more credible more legitimate more in line with conventional thinking it's a natural entity initiate let's say that benefit
55:51 update i think it's 60 40 with z let's see how good she is she knows where the power is she doesn't have it she steers it and directs it she went to every representative on that committee no matter where they were in session or whatever and pitch the bill you know she worked these people she worked each person on the committee and won them over one at a time
56:38 this is the telltale thing right here she comes out with it hold we're in and if she comes out with it not pulled we're out this is basically it right here now we have mimi we got uh gail we got al park and balderas was there too they talked about theirs we got four that woman is [ __ ] amazing
57:34 got out of judiciary nine to two it might just make it there's not any obstacle left there's just time now we were third on the list on the schedule we made it to the floor ready for the vote madam speaker i asked him a question and there's a difference between yielding the floor and asking a question you said you would yield to the gentleman from mckinley and we are waiting for his response mr speaker we want to call the house please police will you please lock the doors we asked for a roll call mr speaker you've got the roll call mr speaker we want to call the house please call it senator armstrong youngberg
58:20 for you please lock the doors they filibustered all the time away on purpose no sir call the house takes precedence mr speaker and they just eat up time blabbing it's kind of a leverage thing they were wanting to get something from the senate it's games it's games the legal process is okay if you've got forever to be farting around with slow change the problem is on the planet now today we need fast change world famous solar radio k-towns 101.9
59:11 k-town solar radio national and international news from indonesia to india a tsunami tidal wave triggered by a massive earthquake swept across the indian ocean thousands were feared dead in the indian andaman islands the earthquake measured 8.9 on the richter scale seismologists say the force of the explosion was about 23 000 times the power of the atomic bomb that hit hiroshima group of architects from the island group of nicobar
59:56 which is right in the center of where it happened ask could we do anything and after a month since the disaster hit our islands it is time we did much more than just food and medicine medicine distribution the need of the hour as we see it is three major components shelter sanitation and clean water you see it as you approach from the boat
1:00:43 the tree line where the wave crashed through and you just see everything crushed and washed away and devastation everywhere and it's it was brutal um look at this so really see how it could be much worse an 8.9 earthquake followed by a 30-foot
1:01:30 wave three-quarters of the people are gone and half of them are dead god play the game for half and one hour all are destroyed not very long not very long it's it's a game of 1 hour it's finished man nothing and after disaster nothing man only for dead bodies inside the roads and buildings only dead bodies for child
1:02:15 and woman's girls it's like a bomb hit oh concrete is shattered there was 35 000 people and there's 7 000 left we were just floored with the power of what we saw from nature and how it can just in an instant wipe out humanity you're humbled by that kind of a situation
1:03:04 this is my house that's your house yeah only this place are alive only is myself i think right now i'm here so you've lost a lot of friends yeah a lot of all our friends are gone they're all in all gone here we will sit together in this place for tea and
1:03:56 this is the all rooms are like this just see this room the same room how can you a family in this room without bathroom or without the small space back side or front side this is the matter nothing more four or five five six seven family members are living in this room yeah i also got like this room but i am sleeping in the road how i sleep must be better than the public role i
1:04:42 don't know who designed or figured this out but it's not it's not with people in mind it's not it's not sensible it's a joke this is not a solution this is a mess salt water from the tsunami wave came in and flooded out all the wells so they had no water this this houses okay this was your well yeah well two dead bodies are inside spoil the government is hauling water for them
1:05:27 in trucks using gasoline they're totally vulnerable dependent creatures now they lost everything they basically have to start all over again from scratch when there's an absolute breakdown of everything then new ideas are clutched to like a lifesaver you know right now they want thinkers they want planners they want people to do something it's like do something guys it's crisis what we're trying to achieve is low-tech
1:06:14 shelter but very strong for earthquake that uses local materials to make shelter that catches water and the whole bamboo structure is independent of the tire structure so the tire structure could shake and then the bamboo would slip just sit there and slip do you think this can withstand a nine richter earthquake yeah it's like this not bad
1:07:05 we've seen a lot of people that have lost everything and they're resilient they wholeheartedly jumped on the fact that this may be a way to keep them cool and give them shelter and give them water and treat sewage there was no barriers you go to a situation that's been devastated the barriers are gone she's great now she keeps phil and i fed with cement fast enough fully impressed man i'd take them all home with me
1:07:56 one rupee per bottle kids have come out to help us locals have come out to help us and they're they're catching on they're excited about what we're doing we got the locals making the bricks and they're doing pretty good
1:09:04 foreign go ahead foreign
1:09:55 it's a vent to draw air through under the floor and it'll run over the water like that because the water will be under there and the water temperature will cool the air so the air goes up through the house and keeps the house cooler they have a lot of rain that they don't catch so they have in the climate of that island everything they need the roof was designed to collect the water and take it to gutters
1:10:42 they have over 100 inches of rainfall a year so there's no reason why they would even need wells in the future oh
1:12:20 monsoons in here are we catching water all right so it catches water about 10 000 liters of water stored for a while no need for a well absolutely that's cool it's a lot of water it's like two umbrellas here it doesn't take two or three sentences to these engineers to say
1:13:05 look we can build out of plastic bottles we can build out of glass bottles we can build out of tires they get very excited telling we might make some real easy to follow step by step drawings of how to do it it was great it was fantastic to see something happen in 14 days when in three years it still couldn't happen in a developed country as opposed to a building that is flat the force of the tsunami is hitting it full on when it's round it's split purely using the local materials the worn out tires used in bottles empty bottles brie
1:13:51 bottles round bottle and the used splash waters plastic bottle we got to like beg on our hands and knees to build these in america and here they're loving it and wanting us to do it tremendous man magic it is magic just like magic i want to make every island in this type of ship in every island 540 547 islands we have very beautiful very beautiful and fantastic
1:15:02 when you see how open people are immediately after a disaster there's a real difference in the people and the opportunity here and the people in the opportunity in the west it's almost like a disaster has to happen to cause the rest of the world to start preparing and then it'll probably be too late nature can absolutely wipe out people k-town solar radio national and international news america in crisis hurricane katrina has devastated the
1:15:49 gulf coast it's been described as the fiercest storm in american history people are dying they don't have homes the city of new orleans will never be the same the vast majority of new orleans louisiana is underwater tens of thousands of homes and businesses are beyond repair we are dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history there's two dogs how can one punch from the gods collapse the richest and most highly developed society in the world tropical storms may be growing in overall intensity due to human-induced
1:16:36 global warming all of a sudden the storm is not a storm it's the end of days i was almost getting casual and there's no hope for that now there's no way to get casual it's it's like an emergency
1:17:23 when things get confusing we look to what is eternal and true to give us a sense of guidance when things get chaotic we look to what is lasting and unchanging to give us a sense of calm the cynical machiavelli said that wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and making a choice of the least harmful katrina wiped a major u.s city away after katrina hundreds of thousands of people are crying at the government because the government is not taking care of them this bill
1:18:08 would allow individuals to take care of themselves with their own methods it's like going to the people and saying everybody out there use what's in your mind and try and come up with some better ways for us to live because we don't have enough of them right now as soon as an environmental activist stands up and says that it's over with the honorable governor and the state of new mexico i don't think they make the connection between natural calamities and global warming i think they think it's a fluke you're coming up with something that people are resistant to
1:18:54 because they don't want to look at the problem to begin with if you don't want to look at the problem then why would you want to hear about a solution you're doing this for their children and their grandchildren you have got to make them aware not to scare them so be careful with the language you use every time you open your mouth in committee it's a liability you should know that by now you don't want to scare people so much that they're paralyzed by their fear because that's what this culture is that's how bush got into office twice people are terrified and it's just feeding on itself you know 911 terrorism and these are very real things i don't mean to discount them but the earth is burning
1:19:42 just been told not to mention anything about global warming oil shortages or anything do not use global warming as it does yeah yeah it's jobs and economic development and new technology they're having some kind of a windfall because of hurricane katrina is affecting the revenue of the state of new mexico because new mexico is selling a lot of oil right now the bush administration is trying to suppress global warming science for the sake of protecting the profits of the fossil fuel industry you cannot prove global warming as a fact and with good science cannot prove global warming it's it's a myth it's not easy to face the truth it's
1:20:28 easier to pretend that it's not really happening house bill 697 with emergency clause house bill 22 house bill 401 as amended by the house with emergency clause house bill 361. and from the design sign a lot of those projects are not very pretty as a matter of fact a couple i've seen are downright ugly this type of housing is is not unique or new to new mexico i think it leaves way too much vagueness how does this mesh with the subdivision act it's not a cash project research is expensive research costs money we're not trying to make money house bill 42 as amended by the house house bill 266 as amended by the house house bill 240 hospital one night i often take
1:21:16 years to pass bills you know you work at it and then the next time it's a little bit better three years is actually a pretty short time to get a major law i'll break the law if i have to politics does slowly slowly grind things out and that's fine if we had hundreds and hundreds of years on this planet we have decades left on this planet of life as we know it and american politics is a [ __ ]
1:22:03 dinosaur that is not gonna make it it's just gonna come to a grinding halt so
1:22:49 this vote is about to close the american dream in my opinion is in the toilet it's history it's gone the american dream is now how do we survive the future
1:23:36 it's not having a bedroom home with 11 bathrooms it's not having a career and a lawn and all of the amenities it is simply how does our children and our children's children even have a chance at life i died
1:24:41 you've been build given fire tonight we've got to work together but yeah know that it's the only road that i'll go around
1:26:07 night know that you're never alone lying hold your head high just everywhere you roam now you got the tools you've been this given tonight we gotta learn to work together
1:27:02 we got to help one another my sister my brother right on you
