''Garbage Warrior'' is a 2007 American film about architect Mike Reynolds, inventor of the

Earthship An Earthship is a style of architecture developed in the late 20th century to early 21st century by architect Mike Reynolds (architect), Michael Reynolds. Earthships are designed to behave as Passive solar building design, passive solar earth s ...

style of building, directed by Oliver Hodge.

Plot

It follows Reynolds and how he developed the

style of building and his struggle with the laws of

Taos, New Mexico Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Cha ...

, the location of his experimental Earthship community, in order to be allowed to build homes that do not match the structures of local

building codes A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for constructed objects such as buildings and non-building structures. Buildings must conform to the code to obtain planning permission ...

. The film concludes with a postscript showing Reynolds and his team of builders travelling to the

Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between th ...

in the aftermath of the

Boxing Day tsunami An earthquake and a tsunami, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, occurred at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7) on 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Suma ...

to assist the locals with disaster recovery and teaching them how to construct extremely low-cost earthships.

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* Sustainable building 2007 films Documentary films about architecture 2000s English-language films Films set in New Mexico Films set in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands 2000s American films {{arts-documentary-film-stub