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 What are Earthships? March 05, 2005 5:05 PM



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.

Check it out in more detail!
http://www.earthship.com/

Tell us what you think!


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Neat! March 05, 2005 5:38 PM

This is so neat!  I'm glad this has been brought to my attention!

Love and Light

Wayne

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Earthships! March 06, 2005 10:14 AM

Hi there

I too share a desire to create possible homes in sustainable eco-systems applying these building methods. I have a video to share about groups building these wonderful structures. Maybe we could organize a gathering and watch this together? Please message me at my primary addy - chipper_heart@yahoo.com Look forward to hearing back and lots of creative sharing

Blessings,

Anthony

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 March 06, 2005 6:32 PM

Excellent! We shall certainly be in touch. How long is the video? Perhaps we can show it during a Sustainable Spirit Club meeting! We meet Thursdays at 5pm (this is at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine at Sheppard and Leslie).




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Cob Housing April 26, 2005 2:03 PM

Building With Earth

Earth is probably still the world's commonest building material. The word cob comes from an old English root meaning a lump or rounded mass. Cob building uses hands and feet to form lumps of earth mixed with sand and straw, a sensory and aesthetic experience similar to sculpting with clay. Cob is easy to learn and inexpensive to build. Because there are no forms, ramming, cement or rectilinear bricks, cob lends itself to organic shapes: curved walls, arches and niches. Earth homes are cool in summer, warm in winter. Cob's resistance to rain and cold makes it ideally suited to cold climates like the Pacific Northwest, and to desert conditions.

Cob has been used for millennia even in the harsh climates of coastal Britain, at the latitude of the Aleutians. Thousands of comfortable and picturesque cob homes in England have been continuously occupied for many centuries and now command very high market values. With recent rises in the price of lumber and increasing interest in natural and environmentally safe building practices, cob is enjoying a renaissance. This ancient technology doesn't contribute to deforestation, pollution or mining nor depend on manufactured materials or power tools. Earth is non-toxic and completely recyclable. In this age of environmental degradation, dwindling natural resources, and chemical toxins hidden in our homes, doesn't it make sense to return to nature's most abundant, cheap and healthy building material?

Link for more info: www.cobcottage.com/#intro

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 June 02, 2005 10:20 PM

"The basic materials of building an Earthship are plentiful and cheap." Reynolds says. "Everywhere I go, I have found tires and cans. The materials are indigenous to this planet, and they are as plentiful as trees. But they donÕt give anything back . . . trees do. When designing the Earthship, we wanted to build it with something that we need to get rid of."

In Earthship construction, tires are rammed full of dirt and stacked in a brick-like fashion, creating weight-bearing walls. The exterior north, east and west sides are solid and buried into the earth while the south side faces outward to take advantage of maximum winter sun. This three-wall insulation creates a house with a thermal climate similar to the interior of the earth.

Source: www.redrockreview.com/earthship.html



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Strawbale June 02, 2005 10:35 PM

Instead of wood, try building a home out of strawbales, which are definitely biodegradable, low cost and plentiful. Besides being very high in insulation and sound proof, they are nearly fire proof once coated with cement.

Bales can be anchored with stakes of bamboo, which is also fast growing and bio degradable. Roofs can be made from sod, which lasts forever.

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Why Earthships? August 20, 2006 9:20 AM

Earthship Biotecture designs and builds homes that... • Heat and cool themselves naturally via solar/thermal dynamics... • Collect their own power from the sun and wind... • Harvest their own water from rain and snow melt... • Contain and treat their own sewage on site... • Produce a significant amount of food... • And are constructed using largely the byproducts of modern society; like cans, bottles and tires. We are evolving the way humans live on this planet. We are redesigning existing methods of living - home by home. We all are constantly making small, believable steps toward slowing down and ultimately reversing the negative impact of human development on the Earth¹s ability to support plants, animals and humans. We believe that this must be done in small steps that people can understand and easily act upon. Regardless of whether the governments, corporations or other "powers that be" cooperate or not, Earthship Biotecture empowers people to make positive changes in their own lives to reduce their personal effect on global warming. http://www.earthship.org/  [ send green star]
 
Hi Amandha... August 20, 2006 3:12 PM

Thought this might interest you and the group. It's from the Earth Mother's website in Welland, ON, and I hope you and Kaia will meetup in Toronto after she moves there. I think you and her might be kindred spirits, seems like you both have a lot in common. ~Peace, Larry

from: http://www.earthmothers.ca/emothers.htm

earth mother n. pl. -s 1.one who respects and worships mother earth 2. one who nurtures others and creates a lifestyle based on this respect 3. one who interfaces with the earth to create balance and joy in the lives of others

"My dream is to help people realize we are all fragments of One, connected by the air we breathe, and with each breath communicate Love, Compassion, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Joy".
-Kaia

"Earth mothers will manifest as an ecologically sustainable holistic retreat, and will include a yoga & meditation studio, an herbal medicine clinic with a holistic birthing wing, a 12-room vegetarian inn, and a hemp farm. The twelve rooms of the inn, through use of colour, gemstones, aromatherapy and application of feng shui principles, will encourage chakra healing and optimum stress relief. The architectural design, a concept known as 'earthship', utilizes recycled materials as its foundation and is powered by wind and solar energy. This project is currently being designed by Toronto based, award-winning architect, Martin Liefhebber."

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