Candace is a Tuskegee University Alumna from Chicago, IL, and a sustainable agriculture educator. She’ll be sharing some of her journey with us through the Academy process this April.

Building an Earthship Encounter 1/4” model to help visualize future construction project. I used plans available on the Simple Survival app provided by Earthship biotecture. I began constructing this while quarantining at home during the Covid lock down. Finally ready to share. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se4w2yj3b7A

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 […]

Description of Project Earthship Inspired Restaurant and Shop located in San Ignacio, Nayarit, México. This little town is located 1 km away from the chic trendy town of Sayulita that receives tourists from all over the world. Proposed BeneficiariesThe restaurant will be run by Jacqueline Topete and will give service to locals and people traveling on […]

I was first introduced to Earthships in 2015. At the time I remember thinking they looked a bit like spaceships but didn’t give them much thought otherwise. Fast forward to 2018. I had recently closed my solar water heating business and was focused on a new business auctioning used goods. The new business was running […]

Earthship ́s Haiti plans under Mike ́s sketches in Uruguay combined with our plans. The staging was a little bit tough because the people in charge of the NGO got to it really late, and I think they thought it would be easier. Time was not enough for us to check every item we put […]

Hello,I just wanted to share a photo of the children in my classroom pollinating the cucumber plant we planted 2 months ago in a bucket planter. I bring grey water from home and they water it every day. They’ve also decided to convert our old turtle tank into another “bucket” planter!

MBEP’s climate change initiative lead, Ashley Gauer, learns how to build an Earthship Under any circumstances, pounding metal support rods, ramming dirt into old tires and digging trenches would be physically demanding. The dry, blazing heat of a New Mexico sun, with temperatures that can hover near triple digits, can turn the work into a […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lozq1fiC2_s The goal of this web page is to network Canadian Earthship projects so that we can learn from one another and help to find volunteers for these projects. We will have weekend workshops in the summer of 2020. collingwoodearthship.wordpress.com I went through 4 different Architects and only used one set of local engineers (www.crozier.com). […]

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 […]

Derek Stenborg, Earthship Academy Student: After attending the Earthship Academy in Taos NM, I wanted to start on a small project to exercise some construction skills. Here is phase 1 of a multiphase process. Phase 2 is a much longer and detailed video of the process, check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0h35ErhahM Off Grid Shed phase 2. […]

Meet Bill Ayers. He is an Earthship Academy graduate and that he attended two phases of the Aguada, Puerto Rico project. For the month of October 2016 I attended the Earthship Biotecture Academy in Taos, NM. In 2018 I completed my field study requirement by attending the first two phases of the Earthship Biotecture build […]