Earthships are so clearly the way forward for humanity. You may perhaps enjoy this article I wrote about them.
Interesting you keep coming across this kind of stuff. I see it too even here in a sleepy little village in the Pyrenees. More people than ever have started growing food, even though there are no food shortages... yet. People are just feeling it. All over the world. Like a sense that we should be preparing in some way.
I don't blame the landowner at all. Most of the people around here are pretty backward and like I said, am just grateful he didn't pull it down in a fit of rage.