Earthship Biotecture on the Weather Channel
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at
7:53 pm
Episode 128: “Alternative Homes” Original Air Date: 2007-08-25 Take a tour through a unique community in Taos, New Mexico. It features eco-friendly homes that are built with discarded materials, and they’re also “off the grid.” That means they’re totally energy independent. How cool is that? climate.weather.com www.earthship.com
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Well, since we’re still in a warming trend, and nowhere near a full blown ice-age yet, I’d say the tire is , perhaps, a bit overinflated, but certainly not blown out. I’d say your analogy is alarmist.
my understanding is, although global warming isn’t man-made as you stated, we did inadvertently speed up the process greatly.
Completely or only partially man-made, the intensity of it is deffinetely humanity’s fault. Either way, something whould be done to help, and the Earthship is a better starting point than most ‘recycle #2 plastic only’ things
global warming or not..
what’s the downside of making homes that don’t rely on any outside water or electricity, doesn’t produce sewage, provides most of your food, and uses trash in its construction?
They should build retirement communities like this – its perfect for budget-strapped old folks
There’s no downside IMHO. I LOVE earthships, I own every book Michael Reynolds has written. I just don’t buy into Man-Made Global Warming I think if the advertising strayed away from furthering the Global Warming panic, and focused on the dramatic energy savings these houses can produce, people might take them more seriously. That’s all I was trying to say in the first place 2 months ago…
oh, yeah. Well we’re in agreement then. I think these buildings are great. I can’t find the books at any libraries here in D.C. – do you know which one has info/diagrams/explanation of the solar toilet they designed? – The one that they installed in Nepal.
The solar toilet is in “Earthship Vol III”
Interesting design but I’m a little turned off by solar and composting toilets. If you checkout the earthship website, they’re doing something even cooler, now. They’ve installed a solar glazing panel over a traditional septic tank, which speeds along the natural anaerobic process.
Let us start the global cooling guys. I could die for a home like this!
Dude, did you miss that part??? Watch 2:50-2:55.
This is really cool to see that all of you see this as a good idea. There is a documentary made that explains even further why we need to start implementing these type of houses into our lifestyles, it is called Zeitgeist: Addendum, you can just google it.
I did my part, the next person who watches it, please further the message on to others, so we can all move onto a more sustainable future as a whole.
Peace.
I’m with you brother
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Im going to save all my money up to have a large EarthShip built for my first own HOME!!! I Love This Entire Concept!
why is there not an earth mother ship for public housing???
if i had a 150k i would build a real house lol
You can build them cheaper than that ! Think about the savings in utility bills over a life time.
gilga999 because we are stuck in what our society teaches us, break free and if you cant break free we will help you!
We need to free the others around us.
to have someone else build a house in the states worth 150k on the market you will pay out over 300k and over the years it will devalue itself to under 75k.
for 150k i could build an earthship completely off the grid in columbia and hire armed guards, gardeners, cooks, and maids.
Oh man I have always wanted a banana tree in my house! So beautiful!
I rented an earthship in the Greater World Community for a night- it was awesome. It was 90 degrees outside and totally cool inside. it felt great to charge my cellphone on solar power and know that the waste water from the sink went to feed the banana tree in the bedroom!
We are about to build one in Sweden, but we have more problems because the sun is very low and the tempeture is very cold most of the year, but we will complet this because we humans need new thinking against the nature, also there is a lot of fun in doing this.
“How do we know that these aren’t just some kind of bunch of hippies getting together to set up some kind of commune and not really doing anything and just sort of talking the talk and not working the walk. If this were to take of then the utilities companies are somewhat threaten by this because there are alternatives available to people and they no longer feeding in A SYSTEM that obviously are pretty MONY HUNGRY.” – Garbage Warrior Documentary.
This is VERY cool. As a finishing touch, a bit of my solar power music should be played in these homes. :gringrin:
Cheers,
Turtuga Blanku
*Solar Power Music*
Since when does living in a commune just talking talk? They live in a commun to get away from the stupidity of a broken monetary system. You will never be free if you have to pay to live on a the abundant planet that you had no choice about being on. Its not like earth ships are patented. Its not like any of this is patented. You could build one yourself in under 5000 dollars. That 150 000 price tag is just for that dude to build it for you. Wich is outrageous when you do the logistics yourself.