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Earthships
They sound out of this world but they're really eco-friendly and conserve
loads of energy. They're made with iminmal impact on eenrgy resources
using recycling materials where possible.
Define earthship - an earthship is a passive solar building with thermal
mass. Made from recycled materials and providing its own energy and dealing
with its own waste.
Using discarded tyres, earth is forced into them, they are then bermed
into a bank and daubed with a cement or lime plaster.
Earthship
- tyre house
Earthship
EARTHSHIPS
FOR SALE - US
IN THE TAOS, NEW MEXICO EARTHSHIP COMMUNITIES
You can stay a night in an earthship to try it out!
http://www.lowcarbon.co.uk/
- earthships at the low carbon network - UK based not for profit
company established to raise awareness of the links between buildings,
the working and living patterns they support, and global warming.
They're building earthships at Brighton.
In 2005 tours of Earthship Brighton will be held on the the 1st
and the 3rd Sunday of every month . If you would like to attend
just turn up at Stanmer Church on the lawns in front of Stanmer
House at 10:30 AM. See the site for more details.
Piloting
Earthships in the UK - PDF file - right click and download
Earthship
Development in Scotland - ES Fife is Scotland’s first
Earthship
Earthship
Huts - Recycled Modular Buildings - article on Permaculture
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Earthship
Update - pictures of a completed earthship home in Oklahoma.
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Valley Earthship Chronicles - personal experience of building
and living in an Earthship near Ridgway, Colorado. interesting site,
good photos. |
| Built from waste and dirt cheap to run, Mike Reynolds' earthships
just might save the planet, says Steve Rose
Monday November 29, 2004
The
Guardian article about earthships - |
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Ayrshire council site - asking for feedback on earthships. Great
photo of tyre wall before plastering. |
Not earthships - but the energy houses -five families living near
Hockerton in Nottinghamshire who have built a development of cheap
(£80,000 each) earth-sheltered houses,
Guardian
Article about the energy saving hockerton houses
Conservatories, heat recovery ventilation systems, under-floor
heating and triple and even quintuple glazing mean they waste almost
none of the heat they generate. Yet the houses have no heating or
cooling systems at all, not even plug-in heaters. The houses are
so well insulated that even if the temperature plunges outside it
takes weeks for it to be felt inside the homes. Whatever the weather,
the indoor temperature falls to only 18C in the winter and rises
to a maximum of 23C in the summer. Each house uses about 8kWh of
electricity a day, which is more than offset by a small wind turbine,
that is expected to start "exporting" energy to the national
grid soon. This is the start of a trend, as electricity companies
begin installing by-directional meters that measure the amount of
energy homes are putting back on to the national grid, as well as
taking from it. So there's the distinct possibility that in the
future a letter from your power company could contain a cheque rather
than a bill. |
BedZED Sustainable Housing Development
Bedzed site
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Article
on design council site = The BedZED sustainable housing project
applies design thinking across a whole system. It shows how big
ideas can solve environmental and social issues by addressing the
causes of the problems, rather than their symptoms. |
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Earthships
About earthships
Penny Poyuzer - No waste like home - visited one during her
series.
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