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1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 min. 11 sec.) ; 285923885 bytes |
| Summary |
Daren Howarth and partner Adi Nortje live in Brighton in the UK, and are champions of sustainable living. They want to build an earth-sheltered home from recycled materials, based on ideas pioneered in the 1970s in New Mexico, but land prices and planning laws force them out of England to Brittany in northern France.Constructed mainly from old car tyres, this is a very low tech house requiring lots of low tech energy to build it. To keep costs down, Darren and Adi enlist the help of a bunch of unskilled volunteers to help build it, in exchange for teaching them the techniques. All very admirable, but with the main components of this build being rubbish and mud, there's a danger the house may end up looking like a hobbit house.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Presented and Written by Kevin McCloud. Series Producer: Madeleine Hall; Director: Michael Ratcliffe; Executive Producer: Charlie Bunce |
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Broadcast 2009-07-14 at 20:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
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Architecture, Domestic -- Design and construction.
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Dwellings -- Energy conservation.
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Dwellings -- Environmental engineering.
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Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation.
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Ecological houses.
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Sustainable architecture.
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France -- Brittany.
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Streaming video
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Howarth, Daren, contributor
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McCloud, Kevin, host
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Mellon, Tony, contributor
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Nortje, Adi, contributor
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Ormrod, Sian, contributor
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Passmore, Duncan, contributor
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Ratcliffe, Michael, director
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