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Democracy Now!

    AMY GOODMAN: How much do people spend here on monthly utility bills?

    MICHAEL REYNOLDS: If they pay over a hundred, we pay it for them.

    AMY GOODMAN: Over a hundred what?

    MICHAEL REYNOLDS: Per year, total annual utility bill, $100.

    AMY GOODMAN: How do you get away with not paying utility bills?

    MICHAEL REYNOLDS: There is no utilities. The electricity comes from the sun. The water comes from the sky. The sewage is treated on site. Everything is—by encountering the natural phenomena of the earth, you have everything you need, and you don’t need utilities. The utilities are bad, because they mine the earth for fuels and make nuclear power plants. But just as bad as that is the infrastructure that they use to deliver the utilities. And then they’re all run by corporations and so on. So, the people are vulnerable. This building, the people that live here are not vulnerable. They are a free people to exist no matter what happens to the economy or anything.

    AMY GOODMAN: The houses go back into the earth, as if they’re coming out of the earth.

    MICHAEL REYNOLDS: They—yeah, you’re embracing—the earth is embracing the buildings, pretty much like a mother holds a baby. The earth is holding the building, because the earth is a source of temperature. Just a few feet below the surface of the earth is a constant temperature. And we’re tapping into that temperature and then actually auxiliarating it with the sun.