$15 earth berm eco house filmed 30 years later
July 29, 2010 by Admin
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www.permies.com Another Mike Oehler creation. This one is called “the sleeper”. Mike if famous for his $50 and up underground house book. This house is an above ground earth berm house. Very small, but a family of three did live in the house recently for 18 months. There are cedar trees growing out of the roof.
paul wheaton your voice betrat¡ys how absolutely touched you are by how tiny this house is. Nice, a house built for fifteen dollars. rose
@Jeskyre but the knowledge you get from the book far outweighs the cost of the book or the cost of the house.
yeah but who wants to live in a shack for 30 years? not that i have anything against anyone doing this.. it’s just not practical for about 70 percent of the world (pulling that # out of mid air i have no idea what percent of the world lives in a shack)
@urban1337 some people can watch this video and build knowledge. This video may contain bits of knowledge that are nowhere else on youtube. As for who might want to live this simply for 30 years: Thoreau did write “Walden” which seems pretty popular.
Great Idea, somehow I dont think this would be very fun to live in in Montana.
I just love it i want to live in a sustainable community so bad i can’t stand it
how are the bugs in there ?
any mosquitos ?
That said, Thoreau only lived at Walden Pond for a couple of years
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it would be a chill place to stay. not everyone can afford 800,000 houses. this looks like the great californian forest to me? i say mid california somewhere huh? beautful place, they do all kindsw of these things over there. you could have a little home in the city or whatever, and this place to come to a few days a week to read books or whatever, just relax. we all need a place to go and be alone this looks pretty good to me
@urban1337 more than 70percent of the world lives in worse conditions than this you ignorant fucking american fuckwit. Go fucking die under a rock like you deserve.
does it get wifi?
@jessejax thank you for the personal attack and wishing my death.. now i told you that i pulled my number out of the air cause i don’t know the percentage of people living in worse conditions.. and i also stated that i have nothing against people living like this at all so if people want to more power to them.. may i ask where you got your percentages? i’d love to see the numbers or are you just making them up as well.. and i don’t see what my nationality has to do with any of this.. thanks..
@urban1337
1: No you dont know, because your an ignorant american fuck
2: Why the fuck would you have anything against poor poeple? You obviously do, just like racists claim to have ‘so many’ black friends.
3: My percentages? Its called reality. Nearly 90% of the world lives below the (western) poverty line. Look it up you ignorant fucking american, im not serving it to you on a silver platter like you mother would.
5: Your a fucking american piece of scum, thats how.
@jessejax well clearly you can’t have a simple discussion without resorting to name calling,.. your mother should be very ashamed
@urban1337 well clearly you are an american fuckhead, like all americans. Fuck you. Fuck your country. Fuck. you.
@urban1337: As to your guess that 70% of the world would not want to live in a shack like this… almost half the world lives on less than $2.50 a day. That’s over 3 BILLION people. The point of me posting this is not to correct you or put you down, but rather to remind you of how incredibly fortunate you are. (And me as well!). Millions upon millions of people would be HAPPY to live in a shack like this one.
@urban1337: I tried to post the link to my source on those figures, but YouTube doesn’t seem to want to let me. Do a google search for “poverty-stats-and-facts” and the first hit (Global Issues website) should be the one I quoted. I hope you check the link out; it’s a real eye-opener.
@jessejax: I’m sorry you’re such an unhappy person.
@suzbailey23 that site does have some very scary numbers, but i will note that wealth and standard of living are very different.. i’m just gonna use The United States as an example.. earning say 45k a year you will have 2 very different standards of living say in New York City than in some small town in Arkansas… not that i’m trying to take away anything from this video I hope everyones standard of living is brought up to where everyone has access to drinkable water and a roof over their head.
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Looks like good firewood
Like guns and matches some people should never pick up a video camera. No matter how cool you are in real life(?), my 11 year old can shoot better video.
You do a disservice to the message you’re trying to get out – if any.
That being said, to all the people on this site bandying about numbers like 70% and 45K a year; 80% percent of the world’s population live on less than $10.00 a day, that means the rich (20% of the world) lives on more than $3,650 dollars a year.
@urban1337 thats not a shack i don’t know where u live but u should get out more
@urban1337 thats not a shack i don’t know where u live but u should get out more
I believe the idea is that all things are possible. Take this simple hut and expand upon it a bit, still using some basic concepts, but local and found materials, don’t break the laws of physics…and a person or two or three can be quite comfortable. I know…I’m still living in something along these lines…albeit a bit more ‘finished’. Built it in 1984.
Some folks have no concept of what is possible. Thanks, Paul, for showing the possibilities to folks…shaky camera work and all.