Earthship news for Earth Day April 20, 2008

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Earthship Newsletter for April, 20 2008

Join an Earthship Expedition to the Netherlands Antilles: Tire pounding -
Bottle walls - Mud plaster - Caribbean Sunsets: Bonaire, Netherlands
Antilles, Caribbean.
4 weeks building an Earthship structure. There will be positions available
for ten trainees for each of the four weeks.
Fees for the training will be $350 per week (not including room and board).
at www.earthship.net to apply for a position on this Earthship expedition
you can apply for one or more weeks.

Flooded: Garbage Warrior testimonials. In theaters all over Canada.
"brilliant and inspirational" 
"Like Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, if on a humbler and more
personality-specific level, this film demands to be seen by as many humans
as possible. Time is of the essence." - Santa Barbara Independent (at
www.earthship.net for testimonials, reviews, blogs and more)

Michael Reynolds: blog "Centralized Utility Systems Hinder Evolution"
Individual homes that contain their own utilities inherent in their design
can be built in a matter of months. New homes are started and completed
every day. This means the concept of decentralized utilities which are
inherent in individual homes elicits daily feedback, knowledge,
reconstruction and resulting evolution. This alone is enough of an argument
to encourage simple individual decentralized utilities versus massive
centralized systems. (read more at www.earthship.net)

Journey: New Earthship Coffee Table Book: Part I
$75 Order now online (at www.earthship.net), call 1-800-841-9249
Hardcover, 220 pages, 9" x 12" color plates, stories, thoughts and history
of the Earthship Concept
Part I: 1969 - 1989
Part II: 1989 - Present Day (available soon)

April 20, 2008: Earth Day, Earthships in the New York Times Magazine:
Reynolds says he took his cue from Noah and his ark. He likes to boast that
his creations have a total annual utility bill of a mere $100. Reynolds, who
is featured in Oliver Hodge’s recent documentary, “Garbage Warrior,” also
runs workshops where he teaches people how to build their own earth-friendly
houses, but for those who’d rather figure it out themselves, there’s his
three-volume step-by-step series on how to build your own Earthship. (read
more at www.earthship.net)

Michael Reynolds: blog "Carbon Neutral Buildings... NOW.": There is, already
in place, a mechanism to allow this - MARSHAL LAW. The definitions of
MARSHAL LAW relate to a “state of emergency”. The urgent need for carbon
neutral construction and retrofit here in the early part of the twenty-first
century is clearly an emergency. (read more at www.earthship.net)

KRCC's new digs may be subterranean: Colorado College is considering a green
facility to house its station. (read more at www.earthship.net)

Permaculture Magazine: Earthship France update. (read more at
www.earthship.net)

Plenty Magazine: One man's trash is another man's... home (read more at
www.earthship.net)

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