Posts Tagged ‘ Home Systems & Construction Issues ’

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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Environmentally-Friendly “Earth Homes”

Feb 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Adobe Homes, Cob Homes, Home Systems & Construction Issues, Straw bale Homes, green building

by Lady Camelot

What are “Earth Homes?” Earth homes are houses that are basically constructed from the earth. Some earth homes are built from adobe, mud, straw or even underground as an earth-sheltered home. Environmentally friendly, earth homes are easy to warm and cool and extremely energy efficient.
Adobe Earth homes are houses constructed from bricks comprised [...]

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