Michael Reynolds is a world leader in sustainable housing.  For over forty-five years he has been designing and building homes that heat and cool themselves, are built from natural and recycled materials, produce their own electricity, collect their own water, treat their own sewage and grow their own food.  He is the author of seven books, the initiator of 3 off-grid communities.  The largest community, Greater World Earthship Community, currently has 60 totally off-grid homes with a plan for 130 total.  He is the subject of the documentary Garbage Warrior and travels with his team around the world demonstrating Earthship/sustainable principles.  In 2006, he spearheaded the New Mexico Sustainable Development Testing Site Act which was signed into law by Governor Bill Richardson.  Recent international projects include: tsunami relief in India, typhoon relief in the Philippines, earthquake relief in Haiti, a school in Sierra Leone, a community center in Malawi and a music school for indigenous people on Easter Island.  In 2010 Taos County approved the world’s first Sustainable Development Testing Site where he is currently experimenting with advanced methods of carbon-zero housing for disaster relief and economically autonomous communities.