WATCH: This man built a home of the future using trash from the past | 60 Minutes Australia

Subscribe here: Full Episodes: | People Power (2008) These days you don't have to look far to find gloom and doom. Global warming, soaring fuel and food prices, on and on it goes. But Liz Hayes has managed to find a tiny glimmer of hope, a community that's beating the 21st century blues. A place that gives “people power“ a whole new meaning. There are no electricity or water bills, they grow their own food and recycle everything. They've simply unplugged. Once it was dismissed as just a hippy-trippy dream, now it's a great, practical idea that's spreading around the world. And the good news is, it's painless. The good life, with all creature comforts intact. WATCH more of 60 Minutes Australia: LIKE 60 Minutes Australia on Facebook: FOLLOW 60 Minutes Australia on Twitter: FOLLOW 60 Minutes Australia