Garbage Warrior doc gives 'Earthship' living a wider audience

By Wendy Wilson May 27, 2008

May 27 | Documentary Garbage Warrior drops in on Michael Reynolds, an alternative architect and green builder, on a three-year stretch of his 30-year crusade to develop energy efficient, economical housing using the garbage that others throw away.
Morningstar Entertainment will release Garbage Warrior, filmed on location at four sites around the world between 2003 and 2006, on DVD Aug. 12 (prebook July 8).
New Mexico’s Reynolds uses people’s trash—beer cans, car tires, water bottles—to produce energy-independent housing for others. His advocacy on behalf of “Earthship Biotecture,” a unique movement in design and conservancy, is profiled as he lobbies state officials for a living test site for the kind of houses he helps build.
Reynolds’ Earthships don’t adhere to state regulations, however, and as his campaign for a government sanctioned, off-the-grid community stalls, the film follows Reynolds and his crew to Indian communities devastated by the tsunami that are in desperate need of whatever housing they can get.
Special features include deleted scenes shot in New Mexico and India, interviews with director Oliver Hodge and a conversation with Earthship owner and aficionado Dennis Weaver.
Suggested retail price for Garbage Warrior is $24.98.