Earthships 101 part I

Earthship n. 1. passive solar home made of natural and recycled materials 2. thermal mass construction for temperature stabilization. 3. renewable energy & integrated water systems make the Earthship an off-grid home with little to no utility bills. Biotecture n. 1. the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their sustainability. 2. A combination of biology and architecture.

25 thoughts on “Earthships 101 part I”

  1. DAAAAMN IT I thought I was so COOOOOOOL… this guy stole my original idea!!!!!!!!! and he must have stolen it by reading my mind and traveling 15 years before I was born so that it would look like he invented it!!!!!!! so clever…

  2. sookiestackhouse2u

    Looks wonderful and expensive … just like solar/electric autos … totally out of reach to the normal person (which happens to be the majority). Now what?

  3. Earthship pioneers will re-educate oil slick greedy corporate slimebags by making “them” work as cheap labour to build Earthships. In time, with kindness and discipline, they may loose their insanity and become humans once again.

  4. Interesting step but not quite there yet, What happens when the solar panels, componants and the actualy house itself is no longer useable? will it still end up in a landfill?
    Look up Cradle to Cradle design, offers a more long term solution to “waste”

  5. whispersihearyour

    where’s pauly shore, and steven baldwin!? this reminds me of bio-dome. this is seriously super cool though.

  6. i live north of seattle. i know of earthships in british colombia, but i just don’t understand how i’d maintain a steady temperature without sun in the winter. is this practical in the pac northwest?

  7. @SVKmellow If your building something that you would like to hold lots of heat or cool. You use Rammed earth inside of old used tires like there doing with these earthships. Metal is expensive to produce unless your just cutting it out of old washing machines and dryers which they use for roofing. Still metal cost a lot of money and a lot of energy to cut it out of old appliances. ?I like what Michael said in the future our junk will be harvested and reused its only a matter of time.

  8. I wouldn’t like to be in one of them if it caught on fire. I can imagine all the dripping and spitting burning rubber would be horrific.

  9. airsoftdeltaforce101

    if every human being on this planet found out about earth ships and the entire community began adopting this form of home building global warming would not be a consern and the world would be much better off in the long run!

  10. aparently the 39 dislikes were either idiot youtubers who like bills or the lumber/oil companies

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