Kitty is on punishment so get back on your earthship, muh-fukka.

One of my longterm goals for the last few years after seeing a lot of the pueblo style houses (I’m looking squarely at you, Mr. Baca) and thinking of how cool they are – and then seeing houses built in African villages and Indian reservations out of hay, then stucco’ed over have made me very interested in the whole Earthship movement.

I’m not a huge environmentalist, hell, I’m not even a lazy environmentalist…but I do care about it in a “Oh yeah, you reminded me it’s fucked up” kind of way where I forget about it moments after it’s brought to my attention. I’m no Ed Begley, Jr. driving around an solar-powered car in the early 80’s by any means, but I’d like to be more conscious of it and do more about it, if I could. (…and I know I can, but I’m not getting paper bags at the grocery store, because I used to think people who did were assholes and hippies, and I know for certain they don’t tip the baggers who help bring crap to their car…)

Whether or not I’ll do more for the eco-system short of think really hard about building a self-sustaining house some day? Eh, I’ll come up with a plan right after this pack of cigarettes.

OK, I admit it. I like the Earthships more for their design and potential to be cheaply built and maintained more than my overwhelming concern for the environment. Yes, I’m the guy who buys one product over the other because of the “pretty packaging.” God bless you, Method for making pretty bottles and bags of spray for cleaning things. You’re so much prettier than Mr. Clean. Although I do appreciate his minimalist approach to dressing. Very Einsteinian.

As you were.

~ by trashville on November 4, 2007.