Earthship
The Earthship is a completely independent globally oriented dwelling unit made from materials that are indigenous to the entire planet. The Earthship has been designed to reduce our impact on the planet and increase our connection to it by utilizing recycled and low embodied energy materials, passive solar heating and cooling, photovoltaic power system, catchwater, solar hot water, gray water and black water treatment systems.
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Earthship Biotecture
Earthship Biotecture, based in Taos, NM, USA is a global company offering proven, totally sustainable designs, construction drawings & details, products, educational materials, lectures / presentations, consultation & guidance toward getting people in sustainable housing. From single family to colony / community / city complexes.
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Our Earthship
An Earthship is a structure that is self-sufficient. It is a building that provides it's own heat, cooling, water, electricity and sewage treatment. In addition it is built with reused or otherwise environmentally sensitive materials, that are relatively cheap, readily available, and easy to use. Used automobile tires meet all of these criteria and make the basic building block for an Earthship.
It may sound crazy to build a house out of tires; but it's not as crazy as it may seem. Besides, the tires are just the beginning...
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Pleasant Valley Earthship Chronicles
The Earthship home is really a great alternative to living in a box structure dependent upon outside resources for life support. The concept is still a long way from mainstream but we really feel it is the best way to go if you want a house that will take care of you. and your philosphy includes not using up anymore of the earth's resources than possible.The evolution of these houses has taken over twenty years.
We built a 1600 sq foot, 3 U, generic Earthship with the latest in system technology to provide for all our needs. Catch water, photovoltaic electricity, solar mass and a water filtration system that reuses water three times are components of this type of home. Maybe you can join us in the process of creating a better world!
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The Dobson House
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About fifteen years ago, Michael Reynolds, a Taos architect, began building environmentally friendly homes. He used discarded materials (automobile tires and aluminum cans), earth berms, thick ceilings, lots of south facing glass. The houses were solar-electric with no central heating or cooling and used rain water collected from the roof. The finish was natural adobe. Reynolds developed a solar toilet, so there would be no effluent contaminating the water table. His wife, Chris, called the homes "earthships" because they were not connected to any system for the water or electricity, and just kind of "sailed" around.
We were attracted mainly by Reynolds' softly curving interior shapes, and the fact that you could build the house yourself. Dobson House is not a conventional earthship as we have a well and traditional plumbing. The house is constructed of tires and cans (2,000 tires and 20,000 cans) and is solar electric. The house was originally laid out by Reynolds' office with 4 lower bedrooms and no corridor. We added the corridor to save old junipers on each side of the space and built two lower guest rooms. It took us about three years to build the home and we did about 80% of the work.
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Touch The Earth Construction
The tire-house (generic "Earthship") is a very practical method of building a bermed, passive-solar residence, using mostly renewable and free building materials that draws little from the Earth's energy resources (that haven't already been drawn). They are easy and pleasant to live in, though quite a bit different than normal houses. They are also low maintenance and cost effective to construct.
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