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Earth & women [videorecording] / Directed by Lyndol Michael ; a Differentia Production.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Cinema Guild, Inc., c2003.Description: 1 videocassette (23 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 inOther title:
  • Earth and women
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 691 EAR
Summary: Environmentally sensitive women design and build their own homes, using straw bale walls coated with mud plaster. Features interviews with numerous women who have built homes from organic materials and who describe the empowering nature of the process, which connects family members, friends and neighbors. One participant comments that her project was a journey "contrary to everything learned in architecture school, everything learned in construction." Women speak about how this kind of architecture respects the planet and lets people take stewardship, connect with materials in the house, connect with the environment, and reconnect to the earth. Participants explore the care-giving concept and women's traditional roles as caregivers.
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Originally produced in 2002.

Environmentally sensitive women design and build their own homes, using straw bale walls coated with mud plaster. Features interviews with numerous women who have built homes from organic materials and who describe the empowering nature of the process, which connects family members, friends and neighbors. One participant comments that her project was a journey "contrary to everything learned in architecture school, everything learned in construction." Women speak about how this kind of architecture respects the planet and lets people take stewardship, connect with materials in the house, connect with the environment, and reconnect to the earth. Participants explore the care-giving concept and women's traditional roles as caregivers.

VHS format.