Earthship Biotecture on the Weather Channel

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?
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[VietnamVegan]

Im going to save all my money up to have a large EarthShip built for my first own HOME!!! I Love This Entire Concept!

[Nichen]

Let us start the global cooling guys. I could die for a home like this!

[Livingdeadsavior]

The plans for these homes (just the plans) run about $10,000. That's a 10 and then a comma followed by three zeros. I think the idea of this home is fantastic, reusing waste water, growing food, passive heating and cooling, and independent energy. However, I don't agree with using bottles and aluminium cans as "little bricks" for the non-load bearing walls. The cans don't really serve any purpose in these walls, just recycle them, they don't do any good in the walls.

[Mandems96]

average house price in england is about £240,000

[Mandems96]

US$ 150 000 = 97 244.7326 British pounds

that is a good price for a british person wanting to find a house in america...

[SantosRegal]

I see lots of comments regarding "sustainability", I would love to have a home like that, but I knew this houses are not within my budget, I can't afford $150.000 for a house like that, and even though I think it is a great idea to grow your own food, I would not consider myself an "environmentalist", as these folks also said, if I get to live in a house like that, I would still go to the grocery store and get my lemonade and cheese, and use the internet too :)

[primalinstinct1000]

dat sum tatooine shit, i want one

[80spopQueen]

@TheReasonWhyGuy (2 of 2)

sunlight, wind or Geo-thermal energy as long as the earth is around.

in the lady's case if all of the fossil fuels were to disapear from the world and no trucks could deliever lemonade to the store, she can just grow some in her EARTHSHIP. So no, she is VERY sustainable.

[80spopQueen]

@TheReasonWhyGuy (1 of 2) another product of American education, *sigh* (-_-)

sustainability means being able to stay alive dispite whatever happens. for example fossil fuels is a non-renewable product if humans ran out we would have no back up energy and we would have take like a zillion steps back, there for fossil fuels is non-sustainable for our society. If we rely on it completely and we were to run out we would be doomed. This is where clean energy comes in we xan never run out of

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

@80spopQueen ...

do you know what sustainability means?

She has store bought lemonade... which was delivered and produced using gas powered vehicles...

100% not sustainable.

If she grew her own lemons, then I would have said nothing about it.

When you claim something, you need to demonstrate it :P

[80spopQueen]

@TheReasonWhyGuy what does sstaionability have to do with lemonade? are you sure what sustainabiliy means?