One million Buddhist beers on the wall, one million Buddhist beers….
by Joe Laur Came across a very cool story on Ecoscraps today. Turns out that in the 1960’s (remember the 1960’s? If you can, you weren’t really there), the head of Heineken Brewery, Alfred Heineken was vacationing in the Caribbean. He saw beaches littered with beer bottles (including some of his) and a lack of affordable housing. His solution? Make beer bottles in the shape of interlocking bricks.
Now people that live in glass houses shouldn’t throw bricks, but apparently people that drink beer can live in glass houses. After a bunch of experiments they came up with a useable brick/bottle design. Only a few houses were built, some of them still standing on the Heineken estate. And then there’s this very cool Buddhist temple in Thailand built entirely from one million recycled beer bottles. Buddhist monks built the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple in the Sisaket province of Thailand from Heineken and Chang Beer bottles.
Must have taken a lot of beer to even come up with the concept, and then well, being good holy monks, they must have all pitched to do their part and drank enough to finish the project. Which probably took 367 years to build in the process. Probably a few pretzel bags and hangover remedy bottles mortared in there somewhere too. Thanks to Jennifer Lance and Wikipedia for the source materials. Oh, and thanks to Greenopolis Partner Molson Coors for the beer required to round out my research. And my belly. Please drink and build responsibly.
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This glass house is a prove
This glass house is a prove that interesting things can be made , but it needs a relocation for people to see it and may be they will make more .
its against their religion to
its against their religion to drink alcohol...they dont drink, they put substances that are "toxic" in their bodies... in other words its like one of their big commandments... or whatever ... so sure this is probably recycliing but i dont think they drank it... probably collected
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You may be right
although I do have Buddhist friends that love a good brew! I just put that part in for humor. Thanks for the comment!
A toast to this great piece!
Recycling AND Beer? What could be better? Love your humor and the Buddhist Temple is A-maz-ing!!! Great work!
Thanks!
I'm so glad you liked the piece- it was fun to write.
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There is a really interesting and incredible movement taking place similar to this in a community in Arizona. They are called Earthships. This is the link.http://www.taosearthships.com/ There are several spin-offs started but this is the original. There is even a documentary based on it now.
Thanks for this info!
We'll check it out!
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