Last week I watched the film Garbage Warrior. The story of Michael Reynolds, an architect who builds self sufficient homes made out of garbage. The houses are made out of tiyes, bottles & cans. all the power is solar and wind, all the water is collected, recycled including grey water through a vegetable growing green house at front of the house. with angled glass at the sun facing side of the house and a huge thermal mass in the back of the house.
I want to build one.
Apart from the obvious difficulty of building your own house finding a council that will let you build a house out of tyres that is not connected to any services will be all but impossible.
Below are a couple of clips to get you acquainted with Earthship buildings.
I want to build one.
Apart from the obvious difficulty of building your own house finding a council that will let you build a house out of tyres that is not connected to any services will be all but impossible.
Below are a couple of clips to get you acquainted with Earthship buildings.
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Me too! Isn't it awesome?
Hi,
Here's a map of earthships around the World:
http://naturalhomes.org/ecohousemap.htm?earthship
Regards, Oliver
"Apart from the obvious difficulty of building your own house finding a council that will let you build a house out of tyres that is not connected to any services will be all but impossible."
that is why the "new monastics" must leave the cities that are controlled by the empire and build earthships, the "new monasteries" out in the uninhabited marginal spaces:)
Thanks Natural Homes - none in Australia.
Hey Urban Monk. I'm not sure building in "uninhabited marginal spaces" is quite my bag. I think I still need other people in my life.
Darren thought about building an earth ship using old tyres, but earth ships have never been tried out in the UK.
You borthers are more alike than you think sometimes
ax
Hey Alex,
Actually there is an English Earthship in Brighton! See
http://www.lowcarbon.co.uk/earthship-brighton
The first UK earthship was constructed by Mike himself a number of years ago. It is in Scotland, Fife in a place called craigincolt farm near kinghorn loch.
it is an ecology center now where they run courses on how to build earthships and the local school children are brought down to do ecological studies.
Since then there has been an earthship built in brighton which I think is being used as a residential property but it is having difficulty with the planning.
the water systems are especially difficult with local authorties who want to charge you 2ooo pound a year to drink rain water!
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