Dennis Weaver's Earthship (1990)

Documentary about the construction of actor Dennis Weaver's Earthship in Ridgway, Colorado. Includes bits with Earthship inventor Michael Reynolds, and interviews with Dr. Charles Keeling and Senator Timothy Wirth.

[@TechGrl18]

Weaver was definitely ahead of his time. Great man.

[@HansDelbruck53]

No. He was just right for his time, but he was a man of vision. Always liked him.

[@dalerowan1085]

I WISH ALL HOUSES ARE BUILT THIS WAY DENNIS. WOULD BE SO AWSOME. THANKZ FOR SHARING.

[@forreal245]

Very labor-intensive project & no one wants to "work" nowadays. Much easier to throw up green wood, match stick houses with uneducated, unskilled, illegal workers.

[@9014jayvictor]

I have allways liked Dennis ,... Now another great reason To appreciate This great Star !

[@bobareeniobobareenio2935]

I wish Dennis was still with us . We NEED him and those like him . . What a great guy .

[@deannasmith6350]

I don't know what else he is known for, but there are MANY people doing projects like this. I personally have friends in 5 communities building Earthships and other eco friendly structures. I got to this video from research before I begin building my own. There is hope for the world, lots of people doing it 💗

[@jonathandoelander6130]

Why does he have all those slaves working for him?

[@chomama1628]

@@jonathandoelander6130 do you not work for someone? Most people do. It’s a paycheck.

[@debcothran7564]

@@jonathandoelander6130 he’s got the money to pay believe me look up his acting career

[@bradcampbell5766]

@@deannasmith6350 I want to build a mini earthship which is less than 1/10th the size of this one. Have you started building one yet? kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKeWdZJtZdNsnbs

[@nealanpaulaking9708]

I'm binging on McCloud and Duel I could watch it once a week. Love Dennis Weaver

[@theuglykwan]

He was really ahead of the loop in his ideas. The decor is very 90s, it brings back memories.

[@lizabethakerlo7194]

Me gustaría obtener un lugar donde vivir igual pero no tengo ni para pagar el personal de trabajadores siempre soñe con una casa de dos a tres pisos pero a mi edad ya ni sonar es bueno creo poder andar recojiendo las llantas pero el resto del material? Bendiciones a la persona que se hizo su casa de llantas está muy presiosa k la disfrute muchas bendiciones

[@reverenceforlife]

Had no idea Dennis W was so ahead of his time and such a decent human being.

[@bobareeniobobareenio2935]

I can’t even imagine how Dennis would feel today if he was here to witness what’s going on . He’d be devastated !

[@nealanpaulaking9708]

He's still alive I think

[@johndavis8669]

He would love Norway today if he was alive.

[@nitro.1579]

@@nealanpaulaking9708 He died in 2006

[@nancycurtis488]

No, Dennis died of cancer in February 2006 and what a wonderful man as was his wife from, I believe, October 20something, 1945...I think. I first met Dennis and Gerry Weaver in 1987 at the Windstar, Choices for the Future Symposium in Snowmass, Colorado. They were the nicest, most down to earth people you would ever want to meet. I got to see them every year that I attended the Symposium until the last Symposium in 1995...and I attended 7 of the 10. Have pictures of Dennis dancing with our then 5 month old daughter, Sara, in 1988, on Sunday afternoon as the Symposium was ending. 1988 was the fantastic year that so many people from the then U.S.S.R. attended the Symposium including Alexander “Sasha” Gragsky, a famous singer from Russia. He and John Denver recorded together John’s song, “What Are We Making Weapons For” aka “ Let Us Begin”. Dennis was kind enough to send my Daddy an autographed picture that I requested just weeks before my Daddy died in July of 1996 as he did for Sara in early 2006 before he passed away that was a sweet graduation gift for the baby girl he danced with in 1988. Dennis, as Chester Goode on “Gunsmoke” was always my Daddy’s favorite character on TV. Dennis was absolutely a wonderful, wonderful man as was my friend, John Denver...two talented, caring men that the world is a much poorer place without. We miss you, Dennis...and John....RIP both of you until we meet again...I look forward to it.

[@kelleymariejones6388]

Great your making use of a toxic man made creations, and I truly appreciate the creativity and resource of it all!

[@gustavomouraodiniz8782]

Wow man, awesome video. Great man he was. Thanks for sharing this. I'm from Brazil, was born in the 80's and I love the way this was filmed, it's inspiring.

[@jonathanfunnell4167]

LOVE DENNIS WEAVER WITH ALL MY HEART AND ALWAYS WILL HES NEVER GIVEN A BAD PERFORMANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[@thomasfurlano9106]

I originally saw this presentation on television back then in 1990. I love it.

[@womanofsubstance8735]

Sadly, he was considered to be a bit eccentric back in 1990, just another hippie, but now we know he was right about global warming and resource conservation. Of course solar technologies were much more expensive then than now, and I'm glad to see that we are slowly beginning to accept and turn toward supporting sustainable energy technologies. I just hope we're not too late.

[@melvinhunt6976]

Global Warming/climate change is a Hoax ! The concept for insulation is great but the climate is still just fine!

[@jeantetreault132]

For a 1990 video production, Dennis Weaver knew exactly all the hazards and the dangers of what global warming was all about and yet he was a real visionner. For he has left us with a legacy of truly wonderful movies, throughout the entire course of his remarkable career and for what we’re so proud of, as well. RIP Dennis Weaver. Thank you, Johnny, Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦.

[@HansDelbruck53]

Visionary

[@sherrymarch1]

This is so cool.

[@joannasarcamedes8191]

i use to live in montrose, colorado and i worked in a small health food store there. Dennis Weaver would come in there with his wife. I had no idea till i saw this that they had built an earth ship. That was a longvtime ago....i miss that area of Colorado. Its sad that he is gone now.

[@dalerowan1085]

DENNIS WEAVER FAVORITE ACTOR. LOVE HIS EARTHSHIP HOUSE. GREAT IDEA USING TIRES AND OLD BOTTLES.

[@keatontruman3275]

I knew him very well. He was a great man. I loved his earthship.

[@gryzzl233]

He was a man, with a vision. Dennis Weaver was a great American!

[@LindaLClark-mi8px]

He sure wanted to save the environment what a great guy 🙏🙌💯 R.I.P. Dennis Beautiful 😍

[@naturboy]

Dennis Weaver was one of the coolest men on the planet. Greatest tv actor of all time. Duel, Cocaine, Bluffing It and that movie when he beat up Sally Struthers, doesn't get any better.

[@johndavis8669]

He played an inventor named Emmett on touched by an angel. He played a man trying to invent clean energy.

[@TAROTTVPEGGY]

Might be a bit in love with Dennis Weaver right now. This was so good!! I want to live in an earthship!

[@texasscience6580]

would love a video like this but focusing on the water management of earth ships

[@JAFO44]

Reverred and missed actor of the bygone generation of true western actors who now belongs to the heavens A pioneer in the solar and reusable materials home building. So Inspiring. May he and his wife be at rest together

[@johndavis8669]

I still got my energy saving bulbs. Bought my latest bulbs over 2 years ago.

[@texasscience6580]

wow this was 30+ years ago. i would like to see how the house has held up.

[@goldenacres3269]

I remember that he had a piece of furniture that was featured in a woodworking magazine. It was made from a big cottonwood tree. I was hoping to see it in the documentary, but it did not see it.

[@barbaraconnett5057]

Thank you Denis , I’m sorry your gone!

[@AhmedAbuhind]

Great man with nice personality , sorry for my english , I am from Algeria , since I have watching his movie " duel " , so ... have good time . RIP Denis 😢

[@OneOfAMine]

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS STORY! TANKS fer sharing mate! Liked & Subed!

[@rcranky64]

Waaay ahead of his time I loved him as an actor had no idea he was doing all of this

[@johnswartz7872]

Our a high-rise buildings could be covered with kudzu and then a Trimming system could trim that kudzu twice a week and a vacuuming system..could pull it into parts of the building, where it could be fermented into fuel .. and created into food ...Because it’s highly edible

[@arizalrevo9544]

Duel (1971) actor

[@johndavis8669]

20:23 Dennis Weaver also knew that insulation was a good thing especially winterization. I consider myself a partial environmentalist. Also partial conservationist. I still like Fossil fuels. He is dead right on cutting energy use in half.

[@MoonMunch001]

Not sure what you mean about “still like Fossil fuels.” He was very right cutting energy use way less than half!🦋❣️🦋❣️🦋❣️

[@Elphaba1952]

What is it that you "like" about fossil fuels?

[@leroyjenkins4123]

@@Elphaba1952 your phone/computer whatever it is you use to get on social media and make comments like this, exists solely because of fossil fuels Gina.

[@alessandromoon4650]

Very Interesting and Intriguing too!

[@alexgrant1176]

Thanks for this video

[@PortDixieandTheJourneyDogs]

I was sooo happy to find this!!! I ALWAYS LOVED DENIS WEAVER!!! HE WAS A GOOD KIND DECENT MAN!!! MARRIED ONE WIFE RAISED THEIR KIDS RT....AND I KNOW HE PASSED THIS ON TO THEM! My favorite role by him was McCloud!! He will always be that Cowboy to me!! A REAL COWBOY!!! AND LOOK BY GOD TO THE NA SAYERS!! NOW BY GOD US ENVIRONMENTALIST MAY NOT GET EVERYTHING RT ALL THE TIME!!?? AND WE CANT SOLVE THE WORLDS PROBLEMS BY OURSELVES!!! BUT BY GOD WE AT LEAST GIVE A SHIT ABOUT MOTHER EARTH AND ABOUT OUR PLANET AND OUR FELLOW MAN!!! AND WE DONT JUST GO AROUND ALL WILLY NILLY POLLUTING THE EARTH AND INTENTIONALLY DESTROYING EVERY GD THING IN OUR FN SIGHT JUST BECAUSE WE CAN!!! AND THATS MORE THAN I CAN SAY FOR MOST! U NA SAYERS REALLY THINK WE CAN KEEP PRODUCING TOXINS AND TOXIC BS AND THROWING AWAY THE AMT OF GARBAGE WE R DAILY AND HAVE 0000 REPROCUSSIONS!? U CAN JUST KEEP POURING 20 FN TONS OF TOXIC TRASH PER SMALL TOWN NOT INCLUDING BIG ONES...I MEAN ADD THAT UP PER TOWN PER COUNTRY PER STATE BY GOD AND THAT ADDS UP TO A LOT OF FN GD CRAP!!! SOOO IM JUST CURIOUS NA SAYERS!!! U WANNA LIVE ON A TRASH HEAP!!!??? NEAR IT!!! SMELL IT DAILY!!!! IBET U DONT!!! AND I BET U BY GOD WOULD BE THE 1ST GD BITCHERS WHEN IT CAME TO UR FN FRONT DOOR!!! AND HOW IS BREATHING IN ALL THAT TOXIC EMISSIONS THAT IS CAUSING MASSIVE SMOG ISSUES AND DESTROYING OUR TREES!!?? HOW IS THAT WORKING OUT FOR UR HEALTH!!?? FOOD COMPANIES PUTTING CANCER AGENTS AND TOXIC SHIT IN OUR FOOD!!?? I MEAN COMEEEE THE HELL ON FOLKS!!!! TRILLIONS OF PEOPLE CANNOT CONTINUE TO RAPE OUR EARTH LIKE WE R AND THROW TONS OF DISPICABLE TRASH INTO OUR WATER WAYS AND NOTTTT PAY THE PRICE!!! I MEAN THAT IS JUST PURE LOGIC AND INTELLIGENCE SPEAKING!!! WHETHER U RAPERS KILLERS AND WASTERS WANNA HEAR IT OR NOT!!! AS FOR DENNIS HE AT LEAST HAD AN OPEN MIND!!! AND CARED ABOUT THE EARTH AND PEOPLE!!! HE ALSO SET UP AN ORG AND FUNDED IT WHO FED 150000 PEOPLE A DAY!!!! WHENS THE LAST TILE U RAPERS USERS ABUSERS TRASHERS DID ANYTHING FOR ANYONE BUR URSELVES!!

[@humblecourageous3919]

Starting at 11:26, his wife Jeri is there doing some of the building. I met her when she volunteered at a school where I was working. You may not know that Dennis was also a Yogi. He gave great lectures at the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades.

[@marktweed7272]

He had a great Hart and he was a great example of a good human being

[@robertwylie326]

Awesome video 🙏☮️

[@stevehein7884]

great man

[@bruceleonard81]

He also built a bottle shed, it’s pretty cool driving past his place. He had quite good ideas

[@bradcampbell5766]

Where is the place located?

[@bruceleonard81]

@@bradcampbell5766 his place from Ridgeway head towards Telluride about 2 miles up the hill take a right and follow the road about 2 1/2 miles on the left. It faces south

[@junerobertson4389]

He was ahead of his time....

[@normgraham8630]

LED light bulbs are more efficient then compact florescent.

[@no2party]

that and CFL's have mercury in them.

[@karenk469]

I think in 1989-90 when they built this house LED wasn't around for household use. Of course today they are and much better than the CFL. We still have some working CFL bulbs that we bought 25 years ago.

[@lilred6644]

I was just wondering where the original video is?

[@user-os4fl4zj7d]

Asphalt additive made of chipped tires good usage.

[@LisaGWoods]

I wonder why we aren't replanting our forests? I think we are to a degree but shouldn't we do more?

[@Stevenowski]

An old TV commercial from the Weyerhaeuser Tree Corporation said that they plant 20 trees for every one they harvest. If that was only replicated in other countries around the world.... imagine.

[@lis9140]

It's great to replant forests, but we also lose diversity when we cut down old growth and clear cut...have to be contentious about how we plant and how we harvest.

[@ElReySupr3me]

I wonder how those tires held up after all these decades.

[@carlyoung8657]

i wonder,i hope they did not get tired

[@skibee50]

They have done well

[@MoonMunch001]

After all these years… still standing! Biotecture Planet Earth (non-profit that helps around the world in disasters) has built earthquake resistant community center in 2010 and started a school in 2020. These structures have withstood the most current devastating earthquake that just occurred this summer.

[@amightysailingman]

Why wouldn't they hold up? They're sealed inside walls. No longer exposed to abrasion, ultraviolet light or ozone - the things that degrade rubber.

[@raysissum]

5:29 how are those tires 'locked' together?

[@Meowbay]

Is this house still standing? Asking in 2023..

[@PunaSquirrel]

Chester!!!

[@jayf8308]

Well alright Mc Cloud!

[@grannygrunt5211]

Probably couldn't use those tires in Indiana where are winners are sometimes can be really really cold below zero, and then really heat up in the summertime in the 90s, in rubber shrinks and expands in the cold in the heat but that looks like a great idea they're doing I presume they were in California.

[@skibee50]

It's actually in Ridgway Colorado I had Christmas dinner there about 10 yrs ago it seemed to be holding up well for the extreme cold in winter

[@MoonMunch001]

I live in an Earthship around Taos - living area is in the 70s year-round. Winters can get to negative 15 (maybe lower) & summer goes into the 90s. So - you don’t need to build in moderate CA to make it work for comfortable living.

[@suehull6688]

There are Earthships in Canada, Montana, and Alaska.

[@bradcampbell5766]

@@MoonMunch001 I plan to build a mini earthship this year. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKeWdZJtZdNsnbs

[@amfe52]

-How do you pronounce it? -M-A-N-N. Ma'am...David Ma'am.

[@PortDixieandTheJourneyDogs]

WTH DOES THIS EVEN MEAN???

[@johndavis8669]

20:42 America has been saving 10k barrels per day for over a decade now.

[@PortDixieandTheJourneyDogs]

WOULD SAVE THIS MUCH A DAY IF WE ALL DID THIS KINDA THING.....

[@johnswartz7872]

The only thing I would do differently is I would sharpen rebar stakes and drive them: Thru the layers of the tires .... This would attach all the tires;.... to each other,And it would “stick”... them to the ground...& therefore the tires could never slide around if there was a big earthquake If I could find a crazy strong glue ...that would glue the tires; to each other....That would be ideal....And I would ventilate the tire areas... so that any offgassing:... that they did ...would go up n out through vents and not into the living area

[@MoonMunch001]

There is no off-gassing in the living areas. Also, improvements to design have been implemented through the years including rebar stakes and much more!

[@richardpoynton4026]

21.57. This senator was totally right. So what happened?

[@michellewestusa]

The cement industry is one of the main producers of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas. Concrete causes damage to the most fertile layer of the earth, the topsoil. Concrete is used to create hard surfaces which contribute to surface runoff that may cause soil erosion, water pollution and flooding.

[@taramahoney3368]

There are Earth Floors and walls!!!

[@michellewestusa]

@@taramahoney3368 yes they exist

[@johndavis8669]

Let me say this about the incandescent bulbs and that is many of it is not sold at 99 percent but less then 8 percent or lower. I predict that electric, fuel cells and CNG will outpace new gasoline vehicle sales between 78 and 85 percent in the future where new gasoline sales vehicles will be restricted to a few types of vehicles that gasoline sale vehicles will make up a small percentage of about less then 14 percent. Large trucks and large SUV's will not be part of the American vehicle market.

[@MoonMunch001]

Tesla Cyber Truck - all electric will be part of the market fir sure!!!

[@lukewarme9121]

What? Dennis Weaver’s house tires can’t start on fire?

[@chinookvalley]

HEMP. We can rebuild the world by using HEMP.

[@karenray7925]

For one thing QUIT cutting down all the trees ,

[@sweetpeaqueen1788]

He used cans not bottles

[@taramahoney3368]

they also use glass bricks made out of bottles! plastic bottles too!

[@franknemeth7430]

Run Rabbit Run the Dogs will get you - Run Rabbit Run - YOU BETTER GET AWAY - Oh the Rabbit ran the Rabbit flew the Rabbit split his tail in two . Chester Goodes Number 1 hit on the Dodge City Top 40 1875 . MR. DILLON - MR. DILLON !

[@tommygriffith9594]

Yeah he was ahead of his time alright. He’d fit in perfectly with this new generation of Hollywood freaks

[@NaturesNaturalRemedies]

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[@keithken2828]

It’s good being environmentalist but in the end we all gonna die’s! That’s just way the law of Nature works, and yes our future children’s dies also…… Being helpful and being kind to one another is more important

[@amightysailingman]

Trying to help the environment IS being helpful and kind to others.

[@normgraham8630]

A taxman's nightmare. They'd rather you built with more expensive materials, so, they could tax you more.

[@PortDixieandTheJourneyDogs]

Ya I bet the power companies who gouges the hell out of us just had to love that he didn't need then to power his massive Earthship!!! He could power his entire Earthship wo them!!! Bet that just chapped their ass!!! I'd love to know who ownes this major nice ship now!!!

[@raysissum]

Definitely a house for non-smokers.

[@robertcoutts926]

This does uncover how long the CO2 evangelists have been active. Remember that this video was from 30 years ago ... some things haven't changed much at all.

[@jamesalbury1703]

Top 10 climate change MYTHS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHOpZ3lqd85pick

[@lawrencefox563]

Germany tyre industry endlessly retreads tyres ,don't buried tyres outgas hydro carbons? I like reuse of waste though.

[@bradcampbell5766]

If they are sealed I don't see how they could outgas.

[@tomace4898]

Dennis always had the best blow too.

[@ellenarmijo4005]

The 6 ui m 3-

[@robertganther3695]

Grew up watching Dennis on Gunsmoke, I like the gray water system, He lost me at global warming ! He was hoodwinked, we need CO2, 19 Scientists are who we are listening too, the media give them the voice, when over 30 thousand say its b.s. Living in that house would be like living in a cave ! and what about all those Battery's ?

[@normgraham8630]

The easiest way to reduce greenhouse gasses, is to reduce the population. (Belling the Cat).

[@MoonMunch001]

WRONG! - watch Kiss the Earth movie - showing on Netflix now - Right On to how we live. Stop pushing “killing” rather than living in a world where we help each other live BETTER and in harmony with nature!!!

[@StrokedGT]

You first

[@normgraham8630]

@@StrokedGT We can reduce the US population by controlling immigration, and stopping gross tax breaks for excess children, and other ways to reduce the number of children people have, without your immoral macabre ideals.

[@chuckwagon5518]

But you're scarring the earth just to make a home! Digging up tons of dirt and altering the landscape is not " in the natural harmony of things". Just sayin... Anyway RIP Dennis!

[@9014jayvictor]

Richard Widmark in How the west was won said we should scratch the earth and leave a mark . Lets Just Try to be good about it ! RIH DENNIS I did not know that you had left us !

[@MoonMunch001]

Chuck Wagon - NO, NOT scarring the earth! Helping the Earth - no heating or cooling necessary to live in an Earthship. Using all-natural Earth to insulate your home makes sense - completely comfortable & no need to really scar the Earth by minimizing the need for fossil fuel’s electricity.

[@chomama1628]

Chuck Wagon, where and what do you live in? The earth was created for man to live in. Nothings perfect but we can always improve.

[@edgeofentropy3492]

19:09 Wrong! They have to use lots of energy to make the solar panels. Sorry Dennis. Don't get me started on the LEAD ACID batteries!

[@theuglykwan]

There's also wind and hydro. Also, battery tech is improving.

[@suehull6688]

They don't use lead acid batteries for Earthships these days.

[@amightysailingman]

They use lots of energy to make and maintain conventional power plants, too. And then you have to burn fuel on top of that.

[@edgeofentropy3492]

@@amightysailingman Maybe everyone on this planet should stop using fossil fuels and electricity. Good luck with that. It will never happen because nobody wants to give up their easy life.