Mitchell Joachim: Don’t build your home, grow it!
www.ted.com TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and — wait for it — meat.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
This is a six-minute segment from chapter 1 of the award-winning “Building With Awareness” DVD video on how to build a straw bale home. This segment gives a quick overview of some materials used in green building, including straw bale and adobe walls, earth plaster, natural materials, passive solar heating and cooling, and much more. More information about the home and how to purchase the entire DVD video can be found at www.BuildingWithAwareness.com
@redragon200 no u fuck off
@roidroid fuck off, this conversation does not involve you!
@redragon200 no u
@swiminthesoil yeah and we already grow hills.
landfill baby.
@austpom333 do you have a cat?
when it coughs up a hairball – wear it as a hat
@Bocbo IT WILL EAT BEES
@beayn you could hire a giant maggot demolition crew.
@peart trees maintain themselves man.
@CyberNeticRodent >”stop wasting my time.”
back at you
@napwashereagain it likes you too.
tasty human
@trav1sbickle in a few years he will weave his hair into a living umbrella.
just as planned
I live in Canada, would I have to move down south for 6 months out of the year because my house changed color and went bare?
Probably the shortest TED talk ever published.
I think the ad at the end is longer.
“Mitchell Joachim earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University, and BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors.”
Interesting, let’s see how it will develop during next years.
I’d be terrified with the idea of my home eating me =S
@t3tsuyaguy1 True. but ill pass on the meat house
i hope i never have to look thru a sfinkter. But thats just my personal oppinion 
Meat house…. lmao… how will I ever not eat it?
just as i started to become interested he said “thank you very much!” =( in which case i became dissapointed
Cool idea but it he didn’t address key points.
Repair for instance. Are you supposed to deal with the weather until your roof grow shut
wow fucking hippies are fucking stupid,. Who wants to wait 7 years for a house,,,,,,
nice natty dreads
meat house? pass. grown treehouse? cool for the backyard maybe, but do you have to water it? how much energy does that take?
he can use my time.
This is where the Tyranids will take off and consume our home planet.
Did anyone else think of Christopher Moore’s book Fluke when he mentioned sphincter muscles as doors and windows?
How well does a house made from straw hold up compared to a regular house? What kind of maintenance would you have to do?
@syncronos
Thanks!
@cloudberry121
The name of the book and DVD combination is, “Building With Awareness: The Construction of a Hybrid Home DVD and Guidebook.” You can order it from bookstores everywhere and online.
@tommyshock Building With Awareness.
I wonder how straw bale house would work out someplace like Lappland.
@tommyshock
What is the name of the book, please?
I just bought this Book/DVD. It’s comprehensive technical breakdowns on Straw Bale construction are easy to understand. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is considering building their own green home!
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fantastic house