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Originally Posted by reZak
Hi Anasazi and everyone. I will fly to NZ 13.september. I am interested in sustainable independent houses called earthships... so mainly Iam going there to get some practical experiences with them, helping some people and communities to build them. I wont to Join and live with waken people in community, but now I am still learning about survival, alternative energies and stuff to be able to contribute more. Iam flexible enought to go enywhere and meet anybody who wont to start community. Peter, can I have a look how are you doing on your place when i am near?
Do anybody knows about this ones?
http://directory.ic.org/21812/Earthwise_Valley
http://www.savita.co.nz/ |
Hi,
We went to live in an earthship in Taos, New Mexico and learned how to build one. Basically, the walls are made out of used tires rammed with earth and stacked like a mm.
The roof is designed to collect water which flows down into cisterns located at the ends of the structure and are underground. The structure is build 4 feet down into the ground to keep an ambient temperture in the 70s inside year round irrespective of how hot or cold it gets outside. Windows face south where the winter sun is located as the entire south end is designed to be a green house where one can grow banana trees and their own food.. it would be easy to design an aquaponic system inside on the south end.
Google earthships - Taos, New Mexico
Go to
www.friendlyaquaponics.com for how to do an aquaponics system