An Earthship Can be a Sustainable Home in the Suburbs | Act Local

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Meet Amy! She dreamed of an eco home on a block in the ‘burbs, so she built Australia's first suburban earthship in Adelaide.
Earthships are an example of sustainable housing, created with recycled materials like old car tyres, and natural materials like rammed earth. Another integral feature of earthships is their passive solar house design, which works in cohesion with the available elements to power the entire space. It’s no wonder these sustainable homes are emerging as a popular choice for off-grid living.
Amy was first curious about the idea of earthships after creating dwellings out of plastic bottles in Nicaragua, which inspired her to take that notion into her future eco-home build. And boy, was she serious! Amy jetted off to New Mexico to attend the Earthship Biotecture Academy for a month to learn the ins and outs of sustainable house design - a journey which led her to Marty from Earthship Eco Homes.
After months of planning and plopping down rammed earth, her earthship was born. And we reckon it looks pretty neat. It also saves 900 tyres from landfill!
Come with us as set sail into this incredible sustainable home.
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1 фев 2024

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Комментарии : 9

@joshmartin125 6 дней назад

Love this woman! Wonderful video! Gives hope to other sustainable builders!! ❤

@jamiemackenzie9502 5 месяцев назад

Amy is a legend!

@BeeBlot 7 дней назад

My dream home is an earthship

@joshmartin125 6 дней назад

I’m with everything, but the song. Oof 😂

@movingom2054 5 месяцев назад

Love the way you made this Thanks so much ❤

@glennboyd1549 5 месяцев назад

I agree whole heartedly about facing your house north ( southern hemispere), BUT, looking at an arial view of your house on the block, it appears you've taken it to the ' letter of the law'. If you initially got advice from an electrician, he would probably advise to keep the house parrallel to the kerb as any power savings lost by being a bit off north would be so insignificant( I'm talking cents / I'm talking 0.0001 % less in power collection, if you just put it square on the block ( I'm a carpenter), because it's so close to north it's not worth putting your house askew to be true north. As it is ,you've restricted easy access to the rear yard. It would have looked so much nicer if the house was square to block ( in this instance, because it's so close to facing north). In short, you've stuffed it ( aesthetically), for 0.0001% gain. On a different note, I see houses being built today eg : on a 5 acre block and they face the house to the road AND IT'S FACING EAST ... OR WEST !!! so dumb, ( it's the "let's face the house toward the road mentallity- old school thinking"), when they had all that room to actually face it true north. So, even in these environmentally conscience times, facing a building northward,is still not on many peoples radar. Also , shame on councils that approve these DA's that don't have house facing / or close to north as possible and window placements as well. many plans have windows facing east or west, when with a bit of tweaking, they could be faced north.

@jonwinns6808 3 месяца назад

You are correct. When you live in an Earthship you are in-sync with all of nature. The passing sky, clouds, stars, moon and sun all flow past your home. It and you are aligned with nature. True North is not the same as magnetic North. The streets should have been aligned correctly! Which would benefit every home in the neighborhood.