Earthship Homes Made Out of Mud and Tires
Blue Rock Station built a beautiful sustainable earthship using cans, car tires, mud and straw. They used 1,200 tires to create the walls of their earthship and use the earth and the sun to naturally heat the home. I thought it sounded sort of like a fort we would build as kids but using tires filled with mud actually makes extremely strong walls. It’s a great way to recycle all those tires too.
Blue Rock Station offers tours of their 38 acre home and run workshops teaching people various alternative building techniques.
Besides the Earthship Blue Rock Station have gardens, llamas, goats and raise rare breed chickens. Their “chicken chalet” is made with beer bottles, straw bales and car tires.
Designer and architect Michael Reynolds created the first Earthship and there are now hundreds of them. Although some are in the desert they collect their own water and manage to have plenty for themselves and their plants. It seems like an attractive and exciting alternative and a great way to get back in touch with nature. See this clip for more information or check out Earthship.org.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
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