I want to build an Earthship!

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Originally Posted by Cloud

Why is the second half of the documentary depressing?

It stops being all optimistic-dreamy-paradise-in-the-desert and gets into how he was basically stopped in his tracks by a bunch of lawsuits from former tenets / owners who had had ridiculous problems with their homes.

One example that sticks in the mind is that a guy's livingroom was so hot one summer that his typewriter melted.

Mostly it's litigious-depressing, though, not failure-depressing.