Kunena Site Syndication http://earthship.com/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:40:23 -0400 Kunena 1.5.7 http://earthship.com/components/com_kunena/template/default_ex/images/english/emoticons/rss.gif http://earthship.com/ Kunena Site Syndication http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/3804-nautilus-earthship.html?limit=6&limitstart=6#4922 Tarvarno: Earthships are shown to hold up better to fire threats than conventional buildings. Similarly, ballistics would depend on point of impact. The walls would be nothing to worry about, but unless you reinforced the structure with Plexiglas I wouldn't be confident in a strong storm. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:27:31 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/3710-pockets-of-freedom.html?limit=6&limitstart=12#4921 It took less than 2 weeks for us to get building permit for our earthship in Uintah County, Utah in 1996. I don't think things have changed here too much. Of course being a structural engineer helped. Having the help of a structural engineer may speed the process up in many places. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:11:49 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4762-global-model-earthship-g2-new-images.html?limit=6&limitstart=6#4920 Im no expert!!!! Also has anyone experiemented with improved winter performance through black coloured roofs etc? If you have no snow in the winter I guess it would get warmer. If you have any or a lot of snow, the snow itself will have a isolating effect. Maybe good if your winter is really cold. I too is really intrested in the aspects of coldclimate earthships. Is there any discussion thread or should we start one? Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:54:06 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/510-canada/4919-home-building-in-muskoka.html#4919 Has anyone else had major trouble with a company called French's Fine homes? Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:57:21 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4835-learn-to-build-in-taylor-county-georgia.html?limit=6&limitstart=6#4918 Would love to find out more about Earthship homes. I think this is an excellent idea and it can certainly help so many people. Blessings to you! Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:21:54 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/546-food/3590-food-production-in-a-green-building.html#4917 summer is a season that for women ,women are animals that for clothes. The love for kinds of clothes is a everlasting topic of women .they can speak varios of brands clearly.now summer is being enjoyed by all of us ,the women in kinds of clothes are nice scene in summer, the christian louboutin sandals dress, chanelshoes, rene caovilla hat, yves saint laurenthandbags,are increacing the beauty of this summer ,maybe they all have their own style, but the main style this summer for women is luxious chiffon skirt with various hyperbolic flower picture ,the best brand for this style is louboutin, it make women seemethereal, no doubt ,it is women's favourite this summer. speaking of the Sandals, the main style for it is still the high-heeled one, but different with befor,the populer this summer is that it use bow to be the main pattern in the front part of women's Sandals,and the same to skirt, the flower picture in the body is its style too. canada goose is the best brand for Sandals this summer ,meanwhile,Arc'teryx Canada Goose Blog is not bad too. Do you like this summer's clothe style ? Gucci Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:49:53 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4636-taos-new-mexicos-earthships-the-ultimate-eco-friendly-homes.html#4916 please send me all info an earth ship homes thankyou Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:45:31 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/3593-the-greater-world-earthship-community.html?limit=6&limitstart=12#4915 I'm in love with Black rock and burning man, I would love an earthship out there...how could that be made possible? Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:34:04 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/3722-internship-program-for-earthships-sustainable-green-buildings.html?limit=6&limitstart=12#4913 Hi, I've been following what you're doing for a few years. I am interested in public policies which enable earth-building and other forms of building which use on-site, sustainable, insulated, and reused materials. Recently, I finished a master's program of Urban and Regional Planning at UC-Denver. I am actively looking for ways to get involved in promoting these practices, navigating political barriers, and changing policies to more readily support these practices. I have experience in policy research and would like to work with other interested parties to draft new policies. If you are involved in this, or can refer me to others who are, I would love to offer my knowledge, time, and passion to help people build sensibly and affordably. Thanks! Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:17:50 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4910-earthship-101-sustainable-homes-that-feed-you-store-water-heat-aamp-cool-oh-and.html#4911 want to see earthship 101 video Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:51:09 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4910-earthship-101-sustainable-homes-that-feed-you-store-water-heat-aamp-cool-oh-and.html#4910 ** This thread discusses the content article: Earthship 101 sustainable homes that feed you, store water, heat & cool.. oh and (/begin-here/earthship-101-sustainable-homes-that-feed-you-store-water-heat-cool-oh-and) ** I've been in these ...they rock! In the middle of winter, with a foot and 1/2 of snow outside they are harvesting bananas, grapes and other yummy vituals! Oh and what are they made of? Tires and tin cans!! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:51:08 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/3841-education.html#4909 I think I'm the only one that writes on this one. yes I'm making it to Taos soon, I think I'm going to come for the October internship.I haven't heard back from you guys but that's ok. I'm sure you need more help. does anyone read these?? Deaconl02@yahoo.com see you guys soon Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:53:43 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/3600-global-model-earthship.html?limit=6&limitstart=30#4908 Hi: I think all this is so great that it should be in the core curriculum of all elementary schools in the world. It would be the best way of teaching kids about so many things, hands-on, and useful in real life. Education for liberation as Paolo Freire would say. When will the global model book come out? I believe summer is already here, at least in your hemisphere. I am really looking forward to it. Thanks. Bernardo from Puerto Montt, Chile Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:56:28 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4385-earthship-green-building-seminar.html?limit=6&limitstart=6#4907 Hi, I would like learn ,how to build earthships,do you guys have a course, Im a builder here in australia,but want to get the info from the guys,who have done it before. Want to get this knowledge,to build my earthship,to live in. Theo Tasoulis Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:41:06 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4385-earthship-green-building-seminar.html?limit=6&limitstart=6#4906 Hi, I would like learn ,how to build earthships,do you guys have a course, Im a builder here in australia,but want to get the info from the guys,who have done it before. Want to get this knowledge,to build my earthship,to live in. Theo Tasoulis Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:39:48 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4904-solving-haitis-housing-problems-with-old-tires-bottles.html#4905 quite interesting to know that the house's being built from waste/used tire's, bottles. i, myself am an civil engineer from Nagaland (northeast of India). like to know and have the concept how's things are done and constructed. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:53:57 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4904-solving-haitis-housing-problems-with-old-tires-bottles.html#4904 ** This thread discusses the content article: Solving Haiti’s Housing Problems with Old Tires, Bottles (/disaster-relief/solving-haiti-s-housing-problems-with-old-tires-bottles) ** From the Wall Street Journal: By Sushil Cheema Architect Michael Reynolds thinks he has an answer for rebuilding in post-earthquake Haiti: earthships. Made from used tires, discarded bottles, cardboard, Styrofoam and other waste materials, Mr. Reynolds designs and builds these homes to be essentially energy self-sufficient. Earthships use solar energy and wind to generate their own power and heat; homes are designed to collect usable water from rain and snow and are built with greenhouses where resident can grown their own food. (Tour a Taos earthship.)   Architect Michael Reynolds of Earthship Biotecture, at center, worked with 40 local Haitians in Port-au-Prince to construct an earthship out of used tires and bottles salvaged from the area. Mr. Reynolds has built more than 1,000 of the environmentally-friendly structures, including a community of them outside Taos, N.M., through his company, Earthship Biotecture. (Read more about Mr. Reynolds.) Now he’s bringing earthships to Haiti. Earlier this month, Mr. Reynolds and two builders, along with a cameraman, went to Haiti intending to survey the area to see how they could help. “There was nothing but tents, nothing but cleanup,” Mr. Reynolds says of what he saw in Port-au-Prince. Instead of just surveying the city, Mr. Reynolds and his team ended up building. A non-governmental organization called Grassroots United, which had contacted Mr. Reynolds before he arrived, met his group at the airport and told him that they had some land upon which he could build. Anticipating his arrival, the organization had gotten Haitian children to collect tires and plastic bottles from the tent camps. Mr. Reynolds himself had one arm in a cast because of rotator cuff surgery, and the two builders with him both got sick from the water and heat. “The three of us were worthless, pretty much,” he says. But 40 locals, ranging in age from four to 50, built an earthship in just four days under his guidance. “They had nothing to do. They were all eager to learn, and it turns out all the skills we could do, they could do.” The earthship, just 120 square feet, is made of 120 tires packed with dirt–such tires are the main building blocks of any earthship. Designed to be earthquake- and hurricane-resistant, the Haiti earthship is not completely finished. Mr. Reynolds plans to return in October to add plaster to the exterior and a screened-in veranda with flush toilets, as well as outfit it for solar energy and water collection. He hopes the home will be used as a prototype for more in Haiti, an example of what’s possible. Earthships could be a boon for a place like Haiti, says Mr. Reynolds, where even the capital city has little infrastructure like sewage or electricity. “The most substantial thing I saw down there was a plywood shack,” he says. The Haiti home isn’t the first that Mr. Reynolds has built in an area hit by disaster. Following the 2004 tsunami, he says, an architect from the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean found his website and asked him if he could help rebuild. There, Mr. Reynolds and his team erected a building made from automobile tires and bottles during a two-week visit. “On our last day there, the monsoons came, and we saw it catching water,” Mr. Reynolds says. Though he hasn’t been back to visit, he hears that the locals now use the structure like a well. The Andaman Islands Earthship was too complex for the locals to replicate themselves, Mr. Reynolds says, but he has since perfected his model for disaster relief to help locals in devastated areas rebuild themselves. When he returns to Haiti in October, he plans to find a site where he can build a small village of earthships. “It doesn’t have to be in the city because there is nothing in the city anyway,” he says of the lack of infrastructure. “These buildings would provide their own power, their own water, their own sewage (systems).” Most important, Mr. Reynolds says, is a sense of empowerment instilled in those who helped. “They built the building!” he says. “The real thing that shows it’s possible for them to do it is that they did it.” from the wall street journal Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:53:56 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/512-australia/4903-earthship-coorong-sa.html#4903 Hi all you beautiful people. My family and I are in the process of purchasing a block of land (community zoning) in Coonalpyn, SA. The block will be used as a care farm (green care) for people with Alzheimers disease. It will feature community gardens, a sustainable living walk and an adventure playground. The main feature though, will be the earthships (yes, more than one!). These will accommodate the residents/ patients. Since we are only a family of 6 and not yet an organisation (we're working on that), we appreciate all help we can get. I'm sure you all have similar views as us, but many of you have lots of skills we are looking for. Let's work together to make this work. Regards, Claudia Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:29:55 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4751-canada-darfield-earthship-update.html?limit=6&limitstart=12#4902 As far as I know there are 6-8 earthships in BC; perhaps more. To the best of our knowledge we are the first fully permitted earthship in BC. The next closest one to us is about 160 km (100 miles). The permits took us about 8 weeks to acquire; Chris is an engineer and did our plans so he was able to consult more closely with his client than most engineers are able!!! Ultimately, our building authority wanted to see that there was analysis equating alternative building methods with conventional building. In other words, earthship building methods must equal or exceed the prescriptive requirements of Part 9 of the BC Building Code. Beyond that we also had to adhere to other requirements; exemption as an owner/builder from the Home Protection Office, prove an up to standard septic system (a traditional one; which already existed on our site). We are definitely not in a "pocket of freedom" but we are fortunate in that the process was not too arduous for us. Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:48:54 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4835-learn-to-build-in-taylor-county-georgia.html#4901 How to sign up: Call us at 575-751-0462 to pay your scheduling fee and choose the week(s) you would like to attend. Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:10:03 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/510-canada/1473-wanting-to-build-a-demo-earthship-on-vancouver-island.html?limit=6&limitstart=12#4900 One Day Earthship Seminar in British Columbia, Canada! One Day Earthship Seminar during the upcoming Canada Earthship Workshop at the end of August. Where: Lone Butte Community Hall and on-site at the Earthship Project > read more... http://earthship.com/canadaseminar Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:06:43 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4751-canada-darfield-earthship-update.html?limit=6&limitstart=6#4899 Thanks Dowser for answering the question about the smell, and addressing offgassing. Mitt, our winters can be cold...sometimes down to -30+ celcius, but only for short stretches at a time. Most of the winter is below 0C. Our valley can be quite dark in the winter, although Kamloops (to the south slightly) is quite sunny as it is situated where several valleys meet. We are going to put infloor radiant heat, fuelled by a gassifier, using waste from beattle killed wood, as back up heat in the winter. It is plentiful here and can be a real fire hazard if left on the forest floor. We have not investigated plants that would do well in little sunlight, but it is on our list of things to research once we get moved in! Our summers are incredibly sunny. We are planning to tie into the grid here so any extra "power" we need in the winter will come from there. We are aiming for net zero over the year. No, we are not lowering the ceiling. We have an extensive thermal wrap around the building (just finishing that part this week). No plans for extra greenhouses, we are building the old style Earthship with the growing areas incorporated. We are thinking of making a living roof to get more growing space in summer. We are hooked up to a rather lovely well so although we have plans for two cisterns at some point, we haven't thought that part out completely, yet. Lone Butte (where the Biotecture build is happening in August) is much colder than here in Darfield and they will have potentially an earlier winter by three weeks and it may last longer by three weeks. I don't know Linda and Grant's building site (hoping to see it before they start) but they may have a much sunnier location than we do. Sorry this is disjointed, just trying to answer all questions. Chris I'm sure, could answer more technically if anybody has additional questions. Cheers! Sandra Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:08:19 -0400 http://earthship.com/education/forums/535-general/4835-learn-to-build-in-taylor-county-georgia.html#4898 Hi, I live in the UK but would love to join the Georgia Earthship build. I'm not sure whether to come for the whole month or the last two weeks. My decision will depend on accommodation costs really. Could you tell me whereabouts in Taylor County the build will be so I can do some investigating? Many thanks, Olivia Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:30:48 -0400