I like the idea of recycling things for a better purpose. Old used tires, empty beer cans, plastic bottles broken tiles can all be used as building matterials. Most of these you can get for free. Here is a video from the guy who designed the 1st Earth Ship House. He has a good attitude about life I think, he sees things that are wrong and tries to change them. There is alot of Bad Language on the video, they talk plane and do not worry about curse words. If you are easily offended maybe you should not watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrMJwIed ... re=related
Here is another video about earth ships with a little less swearing,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9a5AVd9IA
I am sure that others can add videos or information about building with re-cycled junk and making something of beauty out of what others tosed out as trash. We can also talk about other alternative building methods here like earth bags, round timber houses, Cob buildings, waddle and dob, anything that can be built using what ever you have locally at a very low cost. The problems associated with local Zoning Boards and State regulations with these alternative buildings can also be discussed here. Any time you think outside the Box you potentialy run into road blocks with narrow minded officials that not only think inside the box, they Live there too. Logic is not enough when you have people who feel that Rules is Rules, and will not listen to reason.