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Earthships - Another Recycling Frontier

Feb 10th, 2008 | By Kelly Mead | Category: Designing Healthy, Earthship, Energy Efficiency, Green Homes In Use, Helathy (green) Ideas, Home Systems & Construction Issues, People Off-Grid, green building

Earthships are earth-sheltered autonomous buildings made of tires rammed with earth, which are usually arranged in “U” or horseshoe shaped modules. Each tire is rammed full of earth manually using a sledge hammer. Windows on the sunny side admit light and heat. The open end of the “U” shaped structure faces South in the northern [...]

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We love “It’s Not Easy Being Green”

Nov 11th, 2007 | By Kelly Mead | Category: Charities, Green Homes In Use, It's Not Easy Being Green, People Off-Grid, TV Shows, The Big Green Idea, UK

We just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the BBC show “It’s Not Easy Being Green”, since it really helps to see someone making a go of it, and with such humor.
Unfortunately, being in the US the only way to see the show (with our cable that is:() is on the Sundance channel, and [...]

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