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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Max Veenhuyzen

Mushroom walls and waste-fuelled stoves: inside the self-sufficient home of tomorrow

Two people pick vegetables from a greenhouse.
‘We can have houses covered with biology, plants, ecosystems and waterfalls’: Greenhouse by Joost documents the green-thinking initiatives of Future Food System. Photograph: Dean Bradley/Madman Entertainment

“The most destructive things we humans do,” says Joost Bakker, “is eat.”

In terms of sentences that grab your attention, the introduction to new Australian documentary Greenhouse by Joost is right up there. Then again, Bakker – a multi-disciplinary designer, no-waste advocate and the film’s eponymous protagonist – has long been something of a provocateur.

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