Learn to build an earthship in person here in beautiful Taos, New Mexico! Sign up online at earthship.com/learn, or email outreach@earthship.com
Core Classes- Earthship Design Principles
Curriculum:
1. Thermal/Solar heating and cooling
2. Building with natural and re-purposed materials
3. Water Harvesting, Storage and filtration
4. Contained Sewage Treatment
5. Solar and Wind Electric Systems
6. Food Production
Labs
- Water Organization Module
- Electric Wiring
- Earthship Maintenance
- Layout Lab
- Power Tools Safety
Hands-on
- Job Safety and Power Tools Safety
- Carpentry
- Pounding Tires
Methodology - How Earthships Function.
- History and Evolution of Earthships
- Basics of Earthship Construction Techniques
- How to read Earthship Construction drawings
- Earthship Types
- The Water Organization Module
- How to build Grey and Black Water Systems
- The Basics of Electricity
- The Power Organizing Module
- Building Permit and Process for Earthship Permitting
- Earthship Finishes Options
- Earthship Operations
- Earthship Disaster and Poverty Relief projects
- Sustainable Communities
- Earthship Inspired Housing example
- Staging an Earthship Build