Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The Earthship

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could you give us more info on this thing ?
How was it built,etc.

thanks
Nick

Gary Schroeder said...

John Calypso can give you details on the construction of his Earthship. Send him a comment on his blog "Viva Veracruz" and ask him about it.

Anonymous said...

Hi Nick -
The EARTHSHIP (not Earship btw) is a 37 inch thick wall adobe structure basically made by pounding earth into tires and then stack the tires like bricks - Then the voids are filled with mud and soda or beer cans. Finally the walls are adobed or stucco'd.

These are time proven structures that have a light foot print on the earth and are extremely energy efficient.

More information available here:
http://www.earthship.org/

a couple photos of our earthship here:
www.ranchocalypso.com/

Regards - John Calypso