In the new documentary Garbage Warrior, Taos-based architect Michael Reynolds—who'd been stripped of his license in the U.S. for building off-the-grid Earthship communities out of recycled tires, bottles, and beer cans—asks the New Mexico state legislature to donate a bit of land for testing sustainable housing methods. Their response: Much filibustering, and even a little sleeping, all of which is deftly juxtaposed with Reynolds taking his team to India's Andaman and Nicobar islands to teach tsunami victims how to build eco-friendly (and storm-resistant) homes of their own. Provocative stuff, and New Yorkers can check it out tonight at Lincoln Center. Everyone else will have to be patient: The film kicks off the second season of the Sundance Channel's The Green series April 1.
Garbage Warrior premieres March 25, 6:30 p.m., at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, filmlinc.com, and April 1 on the Sundance Channel, 9:35 p.m., garbagewarrior.com.