New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost
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- With walls made from old tires packed with earth, as well as upcycled glass bottles and cans, Earthships have always been built with mainly found materials. The home provides its own energy (with photovoltaics and passive solar and geothermal tubes), water (rainwater and even dew-water capture) and grows food in the essential greenhouse (necessary for temperature regulation and for filtering the water to be reused).
Costs range from $100,000 for a Simple Survival model to $1.5 million for the top-of-the-line Global design. Earthship Biotecture h as justcompleted their first Encounter: an affordable model that provides all the power, water and good of a more costly home.
Deborah Binder has been building Earthships for the past 8 years, both her own home, and community projects in places like Malawi and Puerto Rico. She gave us a tour of the first Encounter build, as well as the Global model she is test-living.
We stopped in at the Encounter build #3 where foreman Phil Basehart pounded tires and explained how the Encounter compares to other models.
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this is all i want. im 17 and im going to start saving for my dream home.
SHUT UP ME TOO!!!! i just can't start saving yet bc of brazil's unemployment rate ugh 3rd world country tings
Good luck, and God Bless
Go for it !!
Tax sales kid is what I would tell my teen age self. Shabbat shalom you are loved
Just start scavenging tires and you're halfway there!
I've worked in IT for over 25 years and I would *much* prefer having as many "low-tech" features as possible in one of these homes; primary reason being that the more complicated you design a system, the more fail-points you will have, and you may not be knowledgeable enough to repair them yourself.
They are using used toliet water for their plants?
D T ccp style 👌
You can design the home to work both on high-tech and low-tech solutions. That way you could switch back and forth between them if you so please. It would only cost as much as a fully integrated high-tech solution, but would have the capabilities of the standard low-tech model.
@@TylerKoz do they get wifi out there
@@dt7491 Well you don't need to be connected to the internet to use wifi enabled devices. You could create a local network for your earthship. For devices that need a internet connection, one solution would be Starlink which should be operational in that area in the next 1-3 years. That would be Gigabit speeds. I am unfamiliar with any terrestrial ISPs for that area.
It's not just low-tech, it's good engineering! This is the height of efficiency.
You get it! Exactly. It’s pretty ingenious, actually.
Hi teck is the solar panels.. low tech is the water and air filtration system..
@@bonnieprice9482
Best of both worlds.
higher tech, higher damage
It's a return to the nineteenth century. My mother lives in a house built in 1855. When its 40 degrees outside, she's wearing a jumper. Nothing was built with electricity in mind.
“Get 20 of your friends together... 10 of your friends together...”
I feel so attacked with my 0 friends right now.
I know right. The people I know won’t give up their current lifestyle for this.
Yea I was thinking the same and "let's go pound tires" < -- not in today's world (not knocking the point though)
We should get a bunch of friendless people and create a building team, lol 😂
@@neuroticnation144 I think u mean, get to know some friendless people for a while and then create the building team. Not a good idea to just pack up with a bunch of friendless people. Some friendless people r friendless for a reason. 😱
😊 Thank you for the laugh 😊
"We have opted out". I so relate to that feeling.
@Apex Mind me too. What state
This looks like AZ.
@@user-tp5yb4hr4w I’m thinking self sufficient is best. Very very small scale. That’s prob safest
Low tech is good. Less things that will go faulty, easier to troubleshoot and fix.
Do you see the irony in saying "low tech is good" in a CZcams comment?
Exactly!
It's why I like having mechanical tools!
@@CurtisDensmore1 Not really. The point is to be as low tech _as possible_. It's like the KISS principle in engineering. No matter how fancy a product you're designing, keep it as simple as possible.
What an inspiration. Thank you 😊💕
i would like both options. one that is automated and the other when the automated one needs repairing.
We were on vacation and approached it best from the West. The More ships we saw, the more excited we got. And then we saw a sign "tour an Earthship". So we did.
One thing I’ve been thinking about is how the ancient Egyptians used mirrors to reflect light deep into structures. With the right emplacements, it could be directed anywhere indoors. Also you could use a gravity as a battery, with sunlight pumping water to the roof during day, and flowing down at night through a turbine. Or even pressure storage. And magnifying lenses could concentrate sunlight for cooking, or heat retention in rocks.
I remember helping my dad's friends build one of the first earthships in that area back in the 80s. Was crazy going back and seeing how many more have been built there.
Not enough, unfortunately. And they're all obscenely expensive.
Hope you are proud. Thank you for exemplifying innovation.
@@badsamaritan8223 the point is that building one yourself is cheap
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That's amazing!! Where is this located?!
I love that she says you need everyone, strong, skilled, not strong, ....everyone building a community. I fell in love with earthships in the 80s. I don't have one but built a passive solar home in Malaysia with no Aircon, water tank, compost bins, and garden. We need to be self-sustaining and minimalistic because everything we buy uses fossil fuel. Once we get off of fossil fuels we can try to re-create commerce and trade. In my dream world...😊❤
I Love the idea of the Earthship.They totally make sense to me and I love the bottle glass walls and no utility bills.
Very good Dirksen family. Please send this video to Joel Salatin thanks.
When I first heard of Earthships it was such a revelation that homes could be self sufficient for power, water, septic, and indoor gardens. And I LOVE the jewel look of the bottle bricks. I love the concept and aesthetics.
What expense is involved in an Earthship? I don't understand why some of these are $300,000 they're made from trash.
@@justgivemethetruth are there any how to videos? I want to build one.
@@billbarrett582 labor intense to build
@@billbarrett582 Labor mostly. Transportation of materials. Earth moving. Glass.
Bill Barrett the material is expensive like every time you go to Home Depot it's a hundred dollars. Also they have to make a living the people who get paid to do it interns pay to learn. I'm building my in Texas bye myself it's s lot of work one day it will be worth it.
It's good to see they FINALLY started putting the batteries indoors where the temp is steady (and well above freezing) instead of the roof where the batteries' performance degrades more quickly with the wild swings in temperature from broiling summers and freezing winters.
That is probably due to a shift from lead acid to Lithium batteries. The lead acid outgased a lot of hydrogen and you could blow up your house. So they were put outside where they could be well ventilated.
Amazing! I just bought land in the desert for a tiny house, this is the best information I have found so far. I was going to brute force my AC, with massive solar array and a bunch of expensive batteries, but with tires, dirt and that cooling pipe, amazing!
That opening drone shot is fantastic.
My neighbors! Beautiful people doing beautiful work.
Kirsten, been watching your channel for years and I want to thank you for all the videos you've done. I really think you're putting out a "message" for people and exposing people to new ideas that maybe, just maybe, will make the Earth a tiny bit better some day.
I agree! It is so inspiring to see so completely different approaches to house building! I'm always wondering how she finds all these objects.
Yes, totally agree
My wife and I stayed in one of the rental earthships for a couple of nights for an anniversary trip. We were very comfortable and really liked it.
This is the exact home I would love my family to live in. Simple and beautiful. Nestled in nature the way life is supposed to be. Beautiful video.
Traditionally people have lived in groups. Made things safer and more efficient.
some day someone has to go in and dig all those cancerous tires out of the ground... then maybe they will grasp the concept that u cant just live on a landfill..
Absolutely magnificent presentation. An Earthship home would be a dream.
@Will Swift well you see, its costsWAAAAAAAAAAAY more. its basically uppermiddle class larping.
Love how the gardens are integrated into the house. Everyone should be growing food like this.
Yes but the greenhouse part should be 3 times the size that they are the way they are building these it's basically just to recycle the water and not to grow food for self sufficiency. I've been to this community and they are a bunch of new age Hippies that left California and other than the living area being efficient Energy wise they are still Idiot rich snobs who buy everything else who left and brought their California stupidity with them.
Jeremy Genslinger this is what I was just coming here to say. I still see lots of food miles. And individual greenhouses are great, but I’d love to see some berms and swales In a master plan for that community since they are already built. That land needs seepage and a canopy layer.
@@jeremygenslinger4874 It was clear to me when I saw my first Earthship video that you could never feed a family from the indoor gardens they have shown. It's better than nothing, but I still think you would need a separate greenhouse + outdoor if you were going to plant enough for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a family year round. Taos is not the ideal environment for planting. But you can easily build in a more fertile zone and employ the same concepts. And yes, much of the "We're saving the planet" marketing is overstated and illogical. It's best just to see these as a great inspiration for people who would like to live as sustainably and self sufficiently as possible. They're not perfect, but it's a good start on many levels.
Can't tell you how much I appreciate your channel, Kirsten! It's been a huge inspiration over the last couple years and with every video I learn a little from all of these amazing and innovative people, both high tech and low. I really appreciate what you do.
As an architect...this is beautiful in all ways..
The desert ecosystem and the homes are just stunning.
I've been a proud roofer for almost 2 decades. I've been wanting to change my skilled trade. Maybe building earth ships would be a neat new field to get into. Is their contracting crews for this construction
I have just started watching these video...looks like volunteers build it... before you build your own house volunteer some places to get the experience...cool idea
Dont think trying to make a living building theae would be a good plan.
I am not knocking the concept of these homes. I think they have some good ideas.
However it seems most are in this one community. Seems a little hippish or tribalist. Not many examples elsewhere.
@@fredgarvin4482 You are correct and that is the problem. I like the earthship sustainable living idea but building with community members have limitations. Also, building with tires may not be the best idea and selling them takes long time.
Currently, we live in a rental house and my dream is to build a small energy efficient house with solar and rainwater harvesting with minimum carbon footprint.
@@fredgarvin4482 almost communal, I agree. I noticed the more I looked into them. But, uve made a great concept green home myself an will be building the first in next year hopefully. Hope it goes as well as my home has for rentera
@@pinakim11 yeah. I am looking at things from a off grid as much as possible thing. Low bills and etc.
I am a self admitted anti social guy so i not into the commune hippie stuff.
I love everything about Earthships
This guy is my hero! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
As someone who is experienced with technology and knows a lot about earthships I can comfortably say that the low tech approach is the only sane choice, ANY critical function that uses technology to operate them has a manual back up because the electronics can and do fail. Much more sensible to have the manual low tech version as primary and the high tech as secondary where it makes sense. About the only major draw back to Earthships is they can only be built in remote locations which isn't for everyone and that they need land which gets you on the hook for the cost and regulation that comes with all houses. Which is why I built a tiny house truck instead :)
I am becoming more interested in a tiny house truck. I'd love an "earthship home base" but I have this insane need to travel and see a new sunrise. I'm probably years away though, mostly lacking in knowledge and the right vehicle.
@@seriouslee6741 My truck would cost a fortune in fuel to do a lot of travelling in. I'd be getting a van instead. A truck is the better option if your more of a house cat that doesn't want to be a rent slave.
@@jedics1 yeah, that's kind of where I'm at. I don't want to pay rent but I want something that feels like home. Tried bus life, busses are too noisy to move and no one likes looking at them. Did van life for about 5 years, I really miss that. The reason I am considering a truck is because I thought maybe one could take me to some of the off road places a van can't. I don't want to travel a lot but I don't want to stay in the same place forever either. I feel like such a boring person after a year.
Thanks for the input. I didn't really consider the difference between gas. Definitely something to think about.
This would work great until you can't get 12 volt pumps, lead acid batteries, inverters, water filter cartridges,, or window glass. I saw a Simple Survival unit that had a hand pump for the water. One could possibly build a sand cartridge filter. Still a better way to leave over conventional homes.
@@motoben6520 But by that stage the world is truly screwed and what kind of life are you going to have anyway...
I would like to combine the earthship with a dome home. Both has their ups and downs, but it would be pretty interesting.
I live in a dome. Its not that different. The earthen mass of the foundation coupled with high r factor insulated walls mean comfortable temps are a matter of venting cool night air and sealing up in the 110 degree arizona heat.
Great presentation, really like these earthships and all of the simple, sustainable ideas incorporated into the design like the air conditioning tube BUT the pricing is not cheap at all. Although I would choose this over a mansion of the same price, anyday... the materials to build these earthships are NOT 200k. It could be done for muuuuch cheaper. I understand she has a business but if you want to develop a model to actually make the world a better place you need to prove to people that this can actually be affordable so that healthy and sustainable living can be for everyone.
"healthy and sustainable living can be for everyone." the biggest challenges are making the changes that enable moving things from proof of concept>pilot>realistic ability of broad adoption. The more people and climates involved, the greater the complexity and the overall cost of shifting/adjusting. Given that the most stability we have politically is 4 years, (aside from lifetime supreme court positions) long term planning is nearly impossible.
Awesome yet again! Thank you!
I really love earth ships and the concept. I just find living on a real ship so much cheaper and I can move!
Its funny how rain water collection is this new thing in the usa. Here in Australia its the social standard and in some council areas in force building regulation. I dont know one country house in Australia that doesn't have rain water tanks for drinking.
A lot of UK residents collect rainwater, too. It makes a lot of sense.
Unfortunately, In the USA some cities ban rain water collection.
Some municipalities in the US actually restrict rain water collection.
Leslie Claus staggering, isn’t it?
@@LClaus some councils do in the UK. It's really silly as we often have water pipe bans during summer so rainwater does come in handy for watering gardens & wotnot!!
I first heard of earthship in 2013 and was so intrigued! Soon after I started looking into living small and self sustaining. Living free and eco friendly has been my lifetime goal ever since
Why would anyone criticize these homes? Seriously, if you dont like it fine MOVE ON but to make negative comments just shows ignorance!
These are very cool. Realistically, I would probably never go to such extremes. But it does inspire me to move forward on smaller scale projects like a rainwater collection system, solar panels, and a greenhouse.
U sure? what happens if the next covid is not so innocent? what happens if the next covid takes hundreds of millons accross the planet?
You'd probably want to be in one of such houses! :)
@@daniluchison It's not that we all wouldn't want to live in a place like that. It's just that you have to prepare for this financially. Most of us don't make enough to start big projects like this. I think stevenqirkle is right to say start with something small. Everyone can implement some type of self-sustainability in their lives no matter their budget.
@@daniluchison an economic collapse is far more likly than a cough killing you
@@ryanbruh752
We are going to have both, an economic collapse and a much nastier virus coming this way. We are not to survive as a civilizations, we became a threat to the planet. When you have disasters like deep horizon where the damage can be seen from satellites, that's when the rules of the game changed.
The way most of us have been living IS the extreme way. And that’s why people believe the lie that the world is over populated.
We stayed in a earth ship there over 20 yrs ago. It started our love for off grid living! They are labor intensive but worth it!!!!!
Smart people with great enthusiasm and energy
Outstandingly truly caring for her
I am happy to see they stopped slanting the south facing windows. I am sure after so many leaks they realized the slant wasnt worth the heat gain.
totally agree
Why do they leak if slanted?
Love New Mexico thank you so much for this one...🦋🕊
Loves me some earthships. It's really the coolest. Inspirational design.
"OPTED OUT OF THE SYSTEM" Man i FELT that to the CORE.
Nice editing. People will appreciate how you mixed in positive experiences with grey and black water. I also like your skill as an interviewer. Others would be temped to interrupt or not even ask questions that the interviewer knows the answer to.
As far as swinging a sledge hammer to compact dirt in tires, I would forgive anyone who used a bit of gas to run a plate tamper.
I love how you’ve adapted the earth ship over time and put all the years of experience into different environments. I’m curious if you think an earth ship would ‘sail’ in a temperate rainforest? I’m in the Smoky Mtns and looking to get undeveloped property for something similar, in terms of build concept
Hey Russell, I hope you see this: Be sure to study such things as 'angle of declination' charts & info - for the area you become interested in - for positioning your south wall and roof overhang.
Don't forget to slop what isn't under your foundation/slab away from your front wall, also strongly consider either a perforated, clay or French/rubble trench drain.
Best wishes - never let go of your dream!
The only issues I can see is having to make sure your wood is as weatherproof as possible to delay rot from the humidity. Also depending on how much sun you will get you might need to add more space on the roof for solar panels since waterfall doesn't seem to be an issue. Or you can integrate your panels into your roof at a slight angle like scales so that water runs off of them onto your roof for collection. Also foundation on softer ground will need something more stable underneath. These earthships are in the desert on harder ground with less humidity and more sun, so those will be the factors you will have to accommodate your plans to. As long as you keep the area well ventilated, mold shouldn't be an issue either.
Yes, they have been built in other climates, should be easy to find with web search I think there's one in either Ohio and\or upstate NY
In addition to being good for the planet and your pocket book these look like they're good for community and empowering people.
my favourite by far
Yes Finally a Earthship!!! Thank you!! Can you visit a Rammed Earth home in the future?
Thank you for this video. Absolutely amazing. I was in Taos last year and went to see a "neighborhood" of earthships (it looked like the one on Lone Tree lane in the video). We got a "tour" and explanation of how the house was built, but this video gave me a much more detailed view of how they're built and how they work.
I'm very disabled with health problems. I wish I could live in an Earthship but still be in the City so I get all the things I need.
I have a similar scaled-down version of that problem, I see a counsellor once a week, can't really move too far away from her. The last place I lived in would have been fairly easy to build an earth-ship there...but it also had one clinical psychologist for 40,000 people who couldn't see me bc of a conflict of interest, and no psych for another 200miles.
insha'Allah I am gonna build my dream earthship with reclaimed materials and earth 🌎🙏 in coming few years and I will keep a free room for people from different continents than mine 👍 believe me my country kashmir is place worth visiting 👍
I like everything about these structures except the bottle walls. One day I’m gonna build something like this.
Welcome to another paradise video! 😍
I love that distressed turquoise paint on the doors and cabinets in the last earthship they showed.
One of the best constructions I ever seen.
Thanks for the super interesting tour. Your guide did a great job explaining all the systems, and the overall concept of the design.
Taos is a wonderful little town, and the Earthship community is one of the reasons why.
We took a tour of one of these a few years ago, and are seriously considering buying/building one for ourselves.
Good Vibrations
This is one of the first youtube channels I got into years and years ago, so glad you continue to make these amazing videos. My mom has a house very close to here! (not an earth ship though)
This deserves a lot more recognition ❤️❤️
👍👍👍Excellent work !!
I really enjoyed this piece. It's given me a lot to think about in the way that we live and the way that we should be living.
6:43 you see they have propane (LNG) delivered which I guess is for cooking (?) but with that much roof space you could make enough solar to cook with electricity.
8:45/17:45 this is one of my problems with the earthship model is the use of large amounts of unpaid, manual labor which takes a lot of time and understates the cost of building. In the USA and other developed places if you had to pay for the labor you would choose instead to use more mechanization such as soil compactors. I'm still shocked that a 2BR/1 bath fairly compact house made of a lot of natural local materials cost $219k. So at this scale I wonder if they're still doing it with free labor. I certainly don't have 20 friends that would give up several weeks to help me put up the basic structure. I would like to see a case made for professionally built earthship developments and what the business case looks like.
14:44 I would like to see a profile on a tropical earthship because most of them I've seen are in arid landscapes.
And I heard Mr. Reynolds doesnt even live in one... could be a rumor but theres something off and his cult like community. I looked into being an intern and he want you to pay??? Okay for room and food but I had a trailer and can feed myself, thanks. Something was off about it...
This would make a really cool setting for a triller/horror movie. These folks know their land and living space better than anyone else !
No tilted windows, cool . I saw curtains instead of bedroom walls to the sunny plant area . Much cheaper and convenient. ❤
Obsessed with this home and community! My family is going to make a transition to something like this in the very near future. Just need to decide where and how. But this video has been very inspirational. Thank you for sharing!
Areas available in the US are currently limited; otherwise the structure would have to meet all building codes. This area of New Mexico, while quite small, is under unique state building standards negotiated by its founder over decades.
I love rewatching this, currently on my second night of staying in an earthship! I want one and I want go crazy build like Michael did 🥰🌱🚗🔌🌻🤘🏻🐝😎😻
So this is an earthship. I would love to live this way 💖💖.
I love all you videos very much indeed. So satisfying to see so many imaginative, creative and thoughtful people taking risks and exploring new ideas
Wish I can build one of my own someday.. I wanna be one of those people who "opted out". 🤔🤔🤔
Me too but in Ireland it’s not easy getting land etc.
Feel the same
@@jimmyjohnny3779 Or building approval?
The working with other people to make it is also very nice.
count me in!
It's interesting to see the upgrades and solution finding.
Very great job contragulation👍🤗
This type of housing would be perfect for desert settings.
Yeah, it's so nice you don't have to think about the winter when the ground freezes more than a meter deep. You can build wonders out of flat tires or even mud, without any basement, or dew-point calculations, or defrost effects in the ground after winter.
I would love to adapt these principles to a more suburb-friendly home.
Of course god supports abortion.
To be complete. Jesus commends you to love. That’s an order. You shall love this baby enough to keep it alive. But sure, you can get an abortion.
They are in a suburb of Taos new mexico
@@bobjob3632 wtf are you talking about?
It be really good for earth, and therefore humanity, if this sort of engineering was adapted for all new builds!!!!
@@hisomebodytrackingmuch1309 Exactly, but there's a lot of things here that wouldn't work in higher density areas. You can't have a septic field in a dense suburb, but you could separate the grey water and sewage to reduce waste.
One of the most eco-friendly things we can do is just NOT move out into natural areas. Even a low impact home like this is incredibly disruptive to the area, humans are the apex predator.
So if we could make homes like this work in Compton, the impact of them would be so much more
This looks like a good life in a good community.
Inspiring. Practical. Sustainable. Beautiful. Thank you.
I really like the concepts and principles employed in these houses. Makes a lot of sense. I don't like the cave like light inside the house and some of the found object aesthetic details. I am grateful that Earthship is testing this out on a large scale, and hopefully making these simple concepts more mainstream (minus some of the aesthetic decisions)
I think you have to go outside of the Taos/Mike Reynolds models to truly see the state-of-the-art earthships today. The Taos models still tend to carry the original Hippie aesthetic they were born out of. Rough finish, slightly dirty, junk yard recycling, amateur/commune build process. You can find a lot more refined designs using the same principles and layout elsewhere these days.
So Cool!!! 💚
This is amazing and solves many world problems at once. Natural disasters, BASIC survival, cleaning up landfills, and more. GENIUS! AND you can live relatively normally and comfortably
Thank you for another great presentation. It keeps us informed, educated and inspired.
I like how they have upgraded their designs over the years, I'm still wondering why they are still pounding tires, it takes months to pound tires with a large amount of people, essentially they are just burying them, no difference in tires at the landfill. They have to transport tires and go to all that effort for so little payback. They could pour concrete walls and be done with it in a week, rather than months. It's of course not that sustainable, but it's 100 times more practical. They also have to fill the gaps between the tires, then doing plastering layers, that's an insane amount of labor. I would love to see a lower man hour/low cost versions of the earthship in climates other than the desert. I think earthships do best in very arid environments, especially because of the earth tubes. You can't do earth tubes like that in humid environments, you would be breathing mold/musty air.
they got nothing better to do, that's why they pound tires for months
How is pouring concrete not sustainable? Not sustainable means we'll run out. Maybe you mean environmentally friendly? Concrete seems to be, whereas tires secrete mercury, lead, benzene, etc.
Urban Hymns Maybe he means because of the limits on the right type of sand for concrete? 🤷♀️
@@urbanhymns8880 Concrete requires sand, which is of a limited supply. Not to mention producing concrete is also a labor intensive process when you factor in the raw materials. You just don't see the work as the end user like you when you're pounding you're own tires.
Agreed, I have been following Reynolds and Earthship for years. Not a personal fan of his. He a bit culty for me. However I would definitely do earth bags instead. You can buy them by a huge roll for 500 dollars and waaaay easier. Fill them with a coffe can and tamp em down. Cut when needed etc.
"Ah, what's for dinner tonight?"
"Shitberries"
Spoiler: all berries are shitberries
The earth ship,ship on the ocean comparison/analogy was great.Its obvious in retrospect.Has been going right over my head for years...got it now.Thx from Sandhills of NC.
These videos bring tears to my eyes... this is beautiful.
Her pricing is nonsense. I have followed the earthships since the start. They try to price such for walk ins in the right areas for that much. But it is the same area they have been contained to in that placement for a long while now. I live in another of one of the few areas states that allow such, and they are not priced that ridiculous. Furthermore, those are all the grunge hippy styled, and genuinely not the best the concept is capable of. I get tired of seeing that same area being looked at, but it has become like their "central" area, and it always leaves a "grateful dead" troupe feeling to what are very good design concepts overall. You can do them modernly, to the point that you dont even realize it IS a "Earthship".
Love your comment, it's so true that it could be modernized to make it more marketable to modern civilization.
Take a look at Big Sky Earthships in Montana they have 2 really beautiful Global model Earthships. :)
Any builds or links you could point others to in reference to your comment :)?
u must be fun at parties
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I could be sold on one of these Encounter Earthships. I'm already have opted out of life as we know it.
same here.
Thinking about it myself.
I love these low-tech practical solutions. Earthships are a major part of climate solutions. I love it, I hope to build one, one day.
Thank you for your diverse frequencies
It says these are less expensive... only 200,000, how much are the more expensive ones? 200k is not reasonable in many areas of the US.
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The older Global models used to start at $200K, I think. Since then inflation has pushed it up, and I think that they are trying to stay on that target price. That reflects the cost of the place all in, though. Your labor may have more or less value than that of the workers.
Imagine saving $500 per month in energy, water, and sewerage bills. That's $60,000 saved over 10 years. That being said - ideally someone could do something similar to this Earthship for less money. New build housing is expensive. Materials cost a lot and labor is a big factor. Older homes or trailers may be filled with toxic chemicals from past generations, and often require a lot of upkeep. Roofs and walls can be ticking timebombs just waiting to cost thousands in repairs.
@@Nphen Where are you located? I run about $150/m for gas and electricity on average. Are those east coast prices?
@@Nphen I live in Scotland, my energy, water, sewerage bills are probably $180 or so a month. It would nice to knock it down to zero though or close to it.
@@Nphen Old homes are not that high of a risk or you wouldn't be able to insure them. New construction has never been easier; once you have the blueprints you can do most of the framing yourself if you wanted. I'd sure as hell rather pound nails where ever I wanted than beat tires in the middle of a desert.
Watching this while browsing Redfin for a traditional home [sigh]
love the video, thanks for sharing
Thank you, great video.
My concern with these earthships are more about humidity. Seems nice in a desert but the rest of the world only gets more humid. I think the layout should work, but with more modern building materials. Also wonder why nobody has any wind turbines. Open areas like these would seem like good places for small scale turbines. I'm no expert, just questions.
water turbines from rivers work quite well.
Seen one with a similar design built in NZ. Amazing house but very labor-intensive exercise.
Just get hipsters to pay for a "workshop" and get free labour and their money.
@@xeftones I think that's what the owners did. A whole bunch of folks from all over the world turned up. They say it's a knowledge exchange for the labour. I guess.
Actually I just remembered there is another building designed using earthship principles not far from where I live. But its not a residence. It's an early childcare centre that also provides multiple healthcare services for the local community. That one was designed by an architecture firm. It didn't take long to build; mainly because the client had the finance and the architects had the experienced construction/labor team to get it done.
@@justgivemethetruth that is true. For those who do build them, a labor of love I suppose.
No not at all. A normal brick house will take 30 years of hard work to pay off the loan. This takes a 13 weeks of low end labor.
Beautiful work ❤♻️⚠️
I can’t imagine the beautiful view of the night skies from that home . I love that house.
I would like to see more videos about homes made out of SIP panels :) they may be pretty common in USA, but here in Europe the SIP`S are only starting to emerge. The price point is really appealing, the construction time too. They sound too good to be true at the moment, and it would be really cool too see some examples in USA and how they sustain over the longer period of time.
If you want to follow an SIP home build i would suggest you take a look at the Handeeman channel. This is not an endorsement from me but I found it interesting to watch.
@@daleygreen809 That is different technology, but Ill look in to it.
i lived in two different earthships some years ago. god i miss it!
If you don't mind sharing, why did you leave?
@@ig7157 internet? 😎
Please share some earthship stories. What was it like to live in one? Why did you live there, and why did you leave?
In general, it isnt for the young couple most of the time. Work is the issue, and very few counties in the USA allow such building, and those are generally not near major varieties of workplaces, school districts so fourth. They are a better retirement area building than a full lifespan plan with the world as it is presently.
that was a great presentation by this woman! So clear and logic, with no fuss. It was very pleasant to listen to all her helpful suggestions.
Thanks for sharing it...I would love to build a earthship house and this has motivated me even more!