By Michael Reynolds. Open Eye Media, ITVS Int'l and Sundance
Channel Open Eye Media, ITVS Int'l and Sundance Channel
Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 Editor's Comment: Mike Reynolds and his
crew of 7 or 8 people have built sustainable, affordable, houses
in the United States, Andaman Islands following the 2004
tsunami, Haiti following the 2009 earthquake and in China.
Reynolds describes their unique technology as, “An entire method
that is independent of corporations, largely independent of oil
and independent of politics.” As of September, 2012 over 3,000
homes have been built using this technology. One of the many
things that distinguishes his work is that he shares and teaches
the technology to people rather than making them dependent upon
himself. This is something that the western colonizers did for
the the people in their colonies, i.e. sharing the technology.
Mike's visit to survey the earthquake damage in Haiti, for
example, quickly turned into "The Haiti Earthship Project."
After teaching Haitians to construc