Earthship New Zealand

This short film shows some of the alternative building materials and designs an Ohio couple have experiemented with on their farm over the last ten years.

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There’s a new type of home being built near Miles City that will cost its owner nothing to heat or cool.

It’s called an Earthship and it’s a self sustaining home which provides heating and cooling, electricity, sewage treatment, water harvesting and food production. not to mention a zero utility bill.

“To me it makes sense; a building that will basically take care of you and itself,” said Demian Larsen, Earthship Builder. “I can leave and not worry about lines freezing or paying power bills.”

Earthships have been built all around the world, but this is the latest, an 1,800 square foot home located just a few miles outside Miles City.

Almost every part of an Earthship is eco-friendly, including the roof, which catches water and channels it through filters for consumption, cleaning and bathing.

Instead of wood and cement, the major building component of the earthship is low-priced automobile tires which are filled with dirt to create earth bricks.

Other ways this green house will save you some green is through solar panels that keep the inside at a cool 72 degrees.

“There’s a shallow indoor planter that will provide herbs, lettuces, small gardens and deeper cells for small fruit trees, bananas and avocados.”

While Earthships continue to help the environment and eliminate utility

via Earthship Home | KULR-8 TELEVISION – Billings, Montana | Local Top Stories.

Earthships for all seasons, all climates

Here’s someone’s honest account of why they won’t be building an Earthship in Europe. Their reasons are not insurmountable, but they highlight some interesting issues that need thinking through.
http://www.fourelementshouse.com/2009/03/why-not-an-earthship/

Welcome to something new, something now…

“Earthship New Zealand” is about focussing on the realisation of Earthships as a viable form of Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) in New Zealand.  Here you will hopefully find an emphasis on the HOW of Earthships – how to make it happen.  Earthship New Zealand is independent and seeks to be a meeting place for suppliers and consumers and a forum for debate and ideas, as well as practical information.

One of the key benefits this website hopes to provide is a central respository of NZ Earthship information and data.  You can also register you own personal interest in Earthships – it’s all important and it all helps.  A key facet of the Earthship building process is the community that is created alongside every rammed-earth tyre and bottle structure.

So haere mai, welcome and roll up your sleeves…