My job as a lifestyles editor has taken me inside hundreds of homes, but none as fascinating as an Earthship in Park County, Colorado. Its owners, Cherrie and Guy Geerdts, traded careers in Denver in 2012 for laid-back mountain life near Guffey … population 25. Four years ago, they began looking at off-grid possibilities. “Nothing […]

Welcome to the Bonaire Earthship! Ten years ago my husband had a vision to make something different on Bonaire, so he contacted the earthship organization and soon started the earthship houses in Bonaire. We started strong, but life happens and the Earthship wasn’t finished until 3 years ago! It became a labor of love, we […]

Floor Plan, Section, Elevation and Door Study. Tropical Earthship Design for Haiti Earthship School.

Research trip dates: October 31 – November 03, 2020

Alternative building construction can take many forms, and one of them is the earthship. Pioneered by American architect Michael Reynolds more than 40 years ago, earthships are made of natural and repurposed materials such as tyres packed with earth. According to Appropedia the first earthship in Mzansi was constructed near Hermanus in the Western Cape […]

A house made of trash and tires in the NEK makes an eco-friendly ‘earthship’. She stood in a circular hilltop clearing in the Greensboro woods Friday afternoon, speaking as a six-man crew maneuvered around a mass of scrap tires, cardboard and piled fill materials. “All this stuff, a lot of it is just garbage,” the Massachusetts […]

‘Kinship’ emerged out of a desire to create a positive legacy from the wreck of Black Saturday. The building is constructed from second hand and redundant object upcycled materials, and is solar passive, and uses no fuel or energy for space heating or cooling (and performs at a 20+ star rating). When complete, it will […]

Sweet taste of heritage tomatoes at Mohawk Seedkeepers Earthship. By Donna Duric Writer Who knew that so many tomato varieties existed and that they could all taste so different? If you did your gardening right, tomato season is here and there are dozens of varieties to choose from. Some are good in salads, some are […]

Simple Survival Model Images from the field at 11,000 ft. in Colorado, USA. We have many students who attended the Online Earthship Academy. The Simple Survival Earthship is designed to provide comfortable shelter, clean water, contained sewage and basic solar power for lights and charging small electronics at a very low price. This building uses […]

SETBACKS FOR LUXEMBOURG’S EARTHSHIP Construction of Luxembourg’s first off-grid learning centre made from repurposed material has been setback. But covid-19 is not the only cause. International volunteers and experts built the first supporting walls of the Aërdschëff in Redange-sur-Attert using tyres pounded with earth during the summer of 2019 and it was hoped that the […]

A couple lives in an off-grid Earthship made out of bottles, tires, and other materials collected from the trash. Laura Davies and David Buchanan live in an Earthship in Almeria, Spain. Their home is autonomous, meaning that they rely on energy from the sun and water from rain. The couple started building the Earthship in […]

Argentina Opened It’s First Sustainable School Built From Garbage Including 2000 Car Tyres By Mayukh Saha / Truth Theory Michael Reynolds is an architect who’s redefining the way ‘Green’ architecture with his sustainable ‘Earthship’ buildings. The project is radical: it is Reynolds’ attempt to instill green architecture principles within the next generation. One of his latest […]

Living in Earthships Through a Global Crisis Earthship Biotecture has built in over 40 countries around the world. In 2017 we built a 2 bedroom Global Model for a family in Biras, France. In this video you will get to see a tour of the Earthship as well as an exclusive interview with the owner […]

I think this is what they call, “bored in quarantine and longing for this kind of life.” This is obviously a very loose interpretation of an Earthship but it was fun to “build” nonetheless 🙂

https://d334d4qdfk61ge.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/CALIU-EARTHSHIP-HOTEL.mp4 In February of 2019, Earthship Biotecture conducted an Earthship Academy for more than 60 students who gathered near Colonia Del Sacremento, Uruguay. A Star studded Earthship Crew tie Lou, Rory, Phil, Harry, Mo, Spider, Ralph, Dan, Michael and so many more and with the students focused on learning all about Earthships from the legends […]

Jim Gagnepain calls it “the little bermed house on the prairie.” He and his wife, Stephanie, built their retirement home in eastern El Paso County. Jim, who has a background in electrical engineering, acted as general contractor, and he and Stephanie did a lot of the work. The result? A unique, almost completely self-sufficient bermed […]

The Question of how a structural earth-rammed tire wall would do in a fire has long been an issue for which we could only offer an intelligent opinion. People think that because tire piles in tire dumps burn so easily and are so hard to put out, that an earth-rammed tire wall would be the same. Our answer has been to compare a […]

Recent disastrous bushfires have rebooted debate about how to (re)build in the Australian bush. Questions are being asked about building standards, whether a fire-proof home is possible, the value of fire bunkers when it’s too late to leave, and if we should even live in the bush any more. I suggest homes and community buildings […]