Earthships are a type of sustainable and environmentally friendly home that is increasing in popularity, especially among those that wish to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. These cool little homes are constructed using natural and recycled materials like rammed earth, recycled cans and old ti...
Earthship The design used with most earthships. A large series of windows characterise the earthsheltered building and the use of tires A somewhat customized earthship built at Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA and shot from the side An Earthship is a type of passive solar home made of ...
Intentional communities are neighborhoods or communities populated by people who share common beliefs or goals. The broad term encompasses a wide variety of community structures based on faith, environmentalism, art, health, politics or a particular type of housing. Members of intentional communities ...
This spring we’ll start building several structures with cob, adobe and styrofoam-infused aircrete. We’ll also have an Earthship-inspired “simple survival” build and biodiesel projects that’ll all run concurrently making a tiny home, a cistern & shower house, a wallapini, a workshop, an...
Coral’s mother Rose is bringing her experience as a grant manager with the local group Community Against Violence. Her brother C.J. has the vision of how the property will transform from a half-built Earthship into classrooms and a library highlighting work by Indigenous authors. ...
Collectively –National Geographic; my company, Earthship; and the lead production house, Plimsoll, in the U.K. – we looked for intriguing new results that had come from scientific investigation. There are obviously thousands of scientists out there all over the world looking into the nooks and...
TheEarthship designis a fascinating place to start thinking about self-sufficient buildings, but the design possibilities are endless to the creative. 3. If You Don’t Do It, It Doesn’t Get Done Procrastination and passivity are not an option in the off-grid life. Heating with wood means ...