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 ...
An Earthship is a unique type of passive solar house that is made of both natural and recycled materials. They are designed to be "off-the-grid ready" homes, minimising reliance on both public utilities and fossil fuels. They are built to use local resources, especially energy from the sun...
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...
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 ...