Garbage Warrior Documentary

ChrisBowers
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Excellent documentary of one man's struggle to find a new sustainable way forward for humanity.

here is part one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnfBmXWUMQQ&feature=related

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A great inspiration

This guy, Mike Reynolds, is a hero.  It's inspiring to see someone who has made such a difference for people just by following his gut, his dream.  I'd love to use some of his ideas to build a house.   Maybe he'll become a folk hero in the southwest -- and India and Mexico. 

I suspect, though, that what he's doing is being used -- at least as far as the film goes.  He does subscribe to the idea that global warming is man-made and that it will end up destroying the Earth as a habitable place.  That's the big undercurrent (sometimes expressed) that runs throughout the film, which I noticed is funded partly by the Ford Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.  Of course that was a red flag for me.  In a recent post we heard about the secret agenda(s) of large Foundations.  The globalists want everyone to accept the human cause of global warming assertion as obvious truth.  Of course we know why... If what we're doing on the planet is causing disaster, then our behavior needs to be controlled.  But if global warming has a substantial natural cause, then their case for centralized control is weakened.

I enjoyed this film a lot, though.  I watched all nine segments.  Although it's a documentary, it has a real dramatic movement.  And he triumphs in the end, which is enormously satisfying.  Thanks for posting it.

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What a Guy!

All I could think of while watching it was how much I wanted to become part of that group in that R&D learning environment.  Such an attractive sustainable lifestyle.  So low tech with such amazing results!  I love that part about the rich kid buying the research house and having to take some of the slope out of the windows because the ultra high efficiency melted his antique typewriter....

and that part about his daughter growing up in that sustainable environment, naturally assuming that the whole world must live and work this way.  that's the kind of child raising that is going to really turn this world around to become more like Jacque Fresco's vision of the future (at the Venus Project)...

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Thank you so much Chris -

Thank you so much Chris - that was absolutely wonderful. I want to move to hippy heaven - I think that's what he should have named his original housing project. The film made me think of my Dad, who built our octagonal concrete passive solar house in the 60's - he was no hippy though, a WW2 vet but definitely a futuristic thinker. It also made me remember seeing the following video about a guy living on his own floating island made of plastic bottles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvn9l1pJ3-A&NR=1

Ooh! -I just found this video, it's much better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOqEyZfgh00&feature=related

 

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More on the plastic bottle island

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVzR2u5nERM&p=E99131B3264A0A42&playnext=1&index=29

Here's part 4 that's missing from the first link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXVX1hV2Y34&feature=related