Earthships in the New York Times Magazine

Today at Earthship Biotecture World Headquarters in Taos, NM, the weather is sunny, snow is in the mountains and the veggies are growing well inside the Earthships, treating the sewage. ;-) With Earth Day coming up in April, we decided to take a quick look back and see what stories we have published in April over the last few years. We came across this article in the New York Times Magazine from April, 2008. Take a look and enjoy the read!

Sunday, 20 April 2008 09:26

WASTE LAND: Earthships — solar homes made of natural and recycled materials — are all about waste: aluminum cans molded into walls, dirt-filled tires stacked like bricks.To hide their pedestrian appearance, the tires are plastered with adobe or cement. Michael Reynolds, an architect — he calls himself a biotect — living in Taos, N.M., came up with the concept in the mid-’70s. Motivated by the energy crisis, his ambition was to build an affordable home that would produce energy (from wind and solar power), collect water and snow in cisterns, contain and treat sewage and manufacture biodiesel fuel.

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