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'Earthship' takes shape on Alberta prairie - Calgary. A family is building a so-called Earthship on the southern Alberta prairie — part of a homebuilding movement around the world. The unique home is an off-the-grid, solar-powered house made of recycled materials. Volunteers have been packing dirt into used tires and stacking them like bricks to form the retaining walls, which are built into a hillside. The home is the length of about two school buses. "The roof is on. The greenhouse is built. Kinney says he planted the idea of an Earthship in the minds of his parents, Dawn and Glen, a few years ago.

He says it has obvious environmental and economic benefits. “Why wouldn't you build a house that collects all its own drinking water, and treats its own waste, and generates its own electricity and does all these amazing things for you? " Self-sustaining The home, which is near Vulcan, Alta., is built with large south-facing windows angled to collect sunlight and heat. "This building does everything for itself. Volunteer effort. Hazard Herald (KY) - Living off the grid. CHAVIES — In the middle of an active surface mine site in Chavies stands a pair of solar panels overlooking a lush Eastern Kentucky valley carpeted with forestland and filled with wildlife. The panels absorb sunlight and covert it to usable energy to power a device that pumps water into holding tanks for use at a nearby cabin.

These two panels and only eight others generate enough electricity to power the home and provide a four-day back up onsite. The home’s owner, Ted Baker, grew up among the trees and wildlife in Eastern Kentucky, but he hasn’t always made his home here. He spent 20 years as an aeronautical engineer in Cincinnati, and it was this experience that made him long to be back in the woods, closer to nature. Baker’s family had lived in Perry County for most of his life where he was a graduate of Buckhorn High School. His family moved to the Chavies area in 1968. He then went on University of Cincinnati. “I got kind of burnt out on being a sheep in the herd,” he said. Living Off the Grid: Free Yourself. Montana. EarthBound Project - Home. Always wanted to have the outdoors experience without the discomforts of a small tent and backbreaking stretcher? Spend your vacation in a dome at Otro Mundo. GREEN ROOF | FundedByMe — The fastest-growing crowd investment platform connecting investors and entrepreneurs.

Bio Home Karuna - A Sustainable Building Approach Based on Earthship Biotecture. Hydrogen House Project - Hydrogen House Project: Home. Tim and Hannah's Affordable DIY Self-Sustainable Micro Cabin House Tour. Name: Tim Eddy and Hannah Fuller Location: Tahoe, California Size: 196 square feet Years lived in: 1.5 years; Owned Hannah grew up in a home her parents built (her father is a boat builder), so it was only natural for her to follow in their footsteps. Tim, on the other hand, has never built anything but fires. With that in mind, Tim and Hannah started out with 20 acres of land and no blueprints, and built one of the most impressive houses I've ever seen in my life — not to mention it's fully off-the-grid. Tucked away amidst a dense forest and surrounded by wildlife, Tim and Hannah's tiny cabin boasts a storybook view of treetops and purple-bluish mountains.

You'd never guess it's only 15 minutes to town. The cabin is connected to a private road by a 100 yard trail, which their friends helped clear. The cabin's modest footprint meant the couple had to create smart storage solutions and keep only what was needed. Apartment Therapy Survey: My Style: DIY. Inspiration: Living simply. Earthship 'biotecture' stays comfy without utilities. TAOS, N.M. — If you landed in the desert surrounding this north-central New Mexico town, you might at first think you had landed on another planet. In a sprawling development a few miles northwest of town, the architecture is so wild and futuristic that it could just as easily be a colonial outpost on the moon. Yet the homes are largely made of trash, and all are designed to be totally self-sufficient without hookups to any utilities.

It's a home design know as the Earthship, and the guru who developed it into a distinctive vision of the future will soon be spreading his gospel to Utah. "It's a vessel that sails on the seas of tomorrow," Earthship founder Michael Reynolds said in a recent interview. Over the past 25 years, Reynolds' thriving experiment in self-sustaining architecture has grown into a diverse collection of about 200 Earthships just outside Taos. On Saturday, Reynolds will present an all-day workshop at the Fort Douglas Post Theater, 245 S.

–Michael Reynolds, Earthship founder. GEN. Tim and Hannah's Affordable DIY Self-Sustainable Micro Cabin House Tour. Tumbleweed Tiny House Company - Welcome to our website ! A Cabin so Small it Doesn’t Even Require a Permit. TwistedSifter The Best of the visual Web, sifted, sorted and summarized Dec 20, 2013 A Cabin so Small it Doesn’t Even Require a Permit In 2010, Finnish designer Robin Falck wanted to build a place he could call his own. While hiking in the woods he found a beautiful location for a cabin. With mandatory military service coming up in less than a year, he knew he didn’t have time to build anything substantial that would require a permit. After designing the building during the winter months, Robin set out in June to build his cabin using as much locally sourced and recycled material as he could find.

Robin says the angle and size of the window gives the interior a lot of natural light and that you can even see the stars at night! [treehugger via Ignant] ROBIN FALCKWebsite | Twitter | Instagram Built and Designed by ROBIN FALCKWebsite | Twitter | Instagram If you enjoyed this post, the Sifter highly recommends: Student Converts School Bus into Mobile Home and Drives Around Country AddThis Sharing. Off Grid Living: Homesteading, Living Off The Grid, Sustainable Living, Survival, Prepping, Zombie Apocalypse, Disaster Relief – Living Off The Grid. DIY: Single Mom Builds Shipping Container Tiny Home for $4000.

Single mom build her own shipping container tiny home for $4000! This just goes to show you what’s possible when practical outweighs keeping up appearances. Shipping containers make great tiny home systems and are easily transportable. The best part about building your home from shipping containers…they’re affordable. Simple as that. Lulu is a single mom who’d gone back to school and didn’t have the time or interest in working full-time to pay for rent. So when she had to move out of her more conventional home, she decided to move herself and her daughter into a shipping container. Original story here: Music credit: “I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor” by Chris Zabriskie ( Comments comments.