Another thing you can reduce while living in an Earthship is trips to the grocery store.Earthship Biotectureexplains, “Earthship wetlands, the planters that hold hundreds of gallons of water from sinks and the shower are a great place for raising some of the fresh produce you’d like to hav...
Earthship Vol 1 Earthship: how to build your own
Before you start reworking your home, you should find out how energy efficient it already is. Otherwise, you might spend money fixing problems your home doesn’t actually have. To assess your home’s efficiency, you’ll need to conduct an energy audit. This will tell you exactly how much ...
What is an Earthship Home? An Earthship is a type of passive solar house that is made of both natural and upcycled materials (such as earth-packed tires). Earthships can be completely off-grid or partially off-grid. Earthships are thermal mass homes first, passive solar homes second. Whate...
refers to property located in a place with a lot of code restrictions. There probably are places that you’d be hard-pressed to build a house too, like a cliff or lake bottom, but even in those extreme locations, I bet there are people clever enough to pull those feats of engineering....
waste by being frugal and energy efficient, a house built with old tires is actually absorbing waste from other sources, and actively reducing the waste stream. An Earthship epitomizes the philosophy that "waste" is merely a definition applied to things that people don't understand how to use...
Absolute pressure transmitters are used in a variety of manufacturing processes to monitor and transmit the pressure of liquids, gases and steam. This information is transmitted as an electrical current which is read by a computer.
When you picture an eco-friendly home, do you imagine solar panels that are something of an eyesore, or maybe those Earthship solar houses from the 70's? Green homes get a bad rap sometimes, but there are modern green technologies that pretty much anyone can incorporate into a home. And ...
Slow and steady wins the race. While pulling the plug may seem like a pipe dream, there a few things you can do while you wait for yourearthshipto be built. Most of us waste more than we actually use; being mindful of how you use your resources is the first step towards energy indep...
Slow and steady wins the race. While pulling the plug may seem like a pipe dream, there a few things you can do while you wait for yourearthshipto be built. Most of us waste more than we actually use; being mindful of how you use your resources is the first step towards energy indep...