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Solving Haiti’s Housing Problems with Old Tires, Bottles
Wall Street Journal ^
| July 20, 2010
Posted on 08/15/2010 12:43:37 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom
Well, it beats a plywood shack hands down, but I rather doubt they can scare up enough old tires for more than one village.
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posted on
08/15/2010 12:48:44 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: beaversmom
The big US earthships are pretty cool. I’ve gotten to stay in one.
To: ModelBreaker
Interesting. Where did you do that? Do you have any pics you can post?
To: sinanju
It’s really just rammed earth. They could do it without the tires.
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posted on
08/15/2010 12:54:13 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: beaversmom
outside Taos, N.M., through his company, Earthship Biotecture...
I bet
A) this guy is a diehard Obama supporter, and
B) he wouldn't be caught dead living in one of his garbage huts himself
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posted on
08/15/2010 12:59:00 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: beaversmom
Inspiring story! We need a few of them at this time, thanks.
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posted on
08/15/2010 12:59:59 PM PDT
by
Howie
To: beaversmom
Folks probably cant afford them or they would be building them already.
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posted on
08/15/2010 1:31:02 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: sinanju
It looks like it would come apart in a hurricane or earthquake rather quickly.
To: beaversmom
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posted on
08/15/2010 1:32:17 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
To: beaversmom
Ha! A place to send all our old tires! Haiti!
As if they don’t have enough problems.
To: chipper dave
"It looks like it would come apart in a hurricane or earthquake rather quickly." When each tire is filled with dirt it weighs over 200 lbs. I think they also tie each row of tires to the next with rebar (or something else, if they don't have that). The guy has been making these things since the late 70's or 80's I believe.
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posted on
08/15/2010 1:36:10 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: beaversmom
Here's one in Phoenix:
To: Flag_This
Well that would make a difference.
To: chipper dave
"Well that would make a difference." Sometimes they plaster over the tires with stucco or concrete or something to give it a smoother appearance. If you couple that with a curving surface it helps to dissipate the force of high winds.
Sorry about the dissertation - I saw a program years ago called "Dennis Weaver's Earthship;" it was about this type of construction.
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posted on
08/15/2010 1:47:43 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: ModelBreaker
It looks like a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
To: Flag_This
What do they do for a roof? I see in the picture they are building some sort of dome frame.
To: beaversmom
Would not be somewhere you would want to be if it caught fire.
I think in their “homeland” they put these on someone’s neck and light em off, i.e. Winny Mandela “necklacing”.
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posted on
08/15/2010 1:55:23 PM PDT
by
dusttoyou
(Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
To: beaversmom
Is there a “bizzaro-world” or “alternative-universe” ping list?
If there is please DON’T put me on either of them...
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posted on
08/15/2010 1:56:12 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(If November does not turn out well, then beware of December.)
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