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Kirsten Jacobsen Michael Reynolds builds self-sufficient 'earthships' that generate their own power.
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He calls his self-sufficient designs "earthships" because they require little heating or cooling and generate their own electricity and water.
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Along the road, there were some "earthships", which are environmentally-friendly self-contained buildings, with their own water sources, electricity generation, and food production.
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Grab a copy of the magazine Home Power some time, or google ‘earthships’.
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The American architect Michael Reynolds, famous for his earthships went to India after the big tsunami and helped the people there build some pretty impressive structures from the local materials and waste plastic bottles.
Build Blog » Emergency Shelter; A Critical Test of Design 2010
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It houses 58 earthships and could accommodate up to 130.
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I admit that I was simply trying to figure why academia has such a negative stereotype of green building, and was picking on earthships as an example of the “crunchy” stereotype that I think puts many academics and architects off from green building.
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While I see nothing wrong with earthships, I think that the fact that green design has long been associated with a hippy aesthetic has been something that has prevented the green movement from saturating mainstream American culture, and this is unfortunate, as sustainability is ultimately not about style or aesthetics, but about thoughtful, functional design.
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At least one of the earthships was open for inspection, but traffic and construction on the highway had made us late and we didn't have the time.
Archive 2006-10-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006
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I noticed that the earthships all seemed to have a succession of weird domes or hobbit houses on top, as if they were denying the fact they were supposed to be buried and inconspicuous.
Archive 2006-10-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006
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