This is the most attractive Earthship I've seen. Often it seems like they forgo aesthetics for function, but this one has both. These look incredibly complicated to build though!

With Ryan's kzfaq.infoUgkxy_pn55PK60wAV3X_C_RoLS_67mNonoCE plan, I was like one taken by the hand and led step by step from start to finish. Thank you very much Ryan!

Here in Finland we recycle all aluminum cans (there's a deposit when you buy a soda), aluminium is reused. Valuable raw material to be wasted in landfill. I like the earthships getting more like a technological concept, not a specific looking "elf" house. This house look almost like any other house and will be more easily accepted by more people and making them more approachable.

What I love about his two earthship homes is that the finishings are nicely done. One can see the rough textures here and there, but the lines are clean, what needs to be flat are flat, what needs to be balanced are balanced, etc. He does admit this is 50% re/upcycled and 50% new materials. The blend between the two is just CLEAN. And if in the end, one does not have to pay for utilities anymore, for such a spacious house, that is a loooooot of money saved. While his plants are yet to mature, I can imagine how much money shall be saved on food -- organic at that (I assume).

I absolutely love Earthships!!! If everyone built their homes this way our world would be a much better place!!! They are like a living thing!!! You take care of the home and the home takes care of you!!! Absolutely brilliant idea and he did a phenomenal job on his amazing Earthship homes!!! Cheers

I love his point about coming home from work and having a home take care of you. Thanks Jenna!

i think saying "it doesnt cost any more or less than a home in their area" is a tad disingenuous. maybe if you do it ALL yourself, but try and find any local contractors willing to tackle this kind of project. and if you DO find one/some, it AINT gonna be cheap! this is a VERY "skill specific" home, and very few have the skills or ability/desire to do this. all that said....kudos to this man and i wish I had this home! fantastic job!

Hey, i always knew that Dennis Quaid was big into sustainable living!

I love how modern and clean he made these look. Not the typical funky earthship design. I wonder how much they cost to build.

I've been wanting to build my forever Earthship home for decades but life just keeps getting in the way. Hopeful 2021 will b the yr I find the perfect spot!

Thank you for showing a more "realistic" Earthship outside of the idealized desert ones that every other doc shows. I'd be curious tp see how they take care of mold and mildew in humid places.

I live in Kenya, this would be a dream house for me. It is beautiful and eco-friendly. I love it

Wow, I randomly clicked on this video. Thats Jeff Saad, I helped build that house. This it the second one he built, the first one is about 100 yard away. I love how it turned out!

I love Earthships and this guest house is one of the prettiest I've ever seen! Nice work. Thanks for sharing!

Love this home! First time I’ve seen a grow wall in an earth ship! OUTSTANDING build! Thank you for sharing it❤️

Jenna, I really enjoy the results of you spreading your wings! Thanks!

Aluminum and glass are literally two best, easiest and most important things to recycle. Producing of new aluminum is INCREDIBLY taxing on the environment

He is such an adorably honest guy ❤

Thank you, Jeff, for opening your home and sharing your design process. I am truly inspired and hope to replicate one day!

I so love the earthships they are so beautiful and such a wonderful way to live in a place where life is completely without the normal utility bills and you are in complete control of the whole system. It works with people and feeds them provides water and heat and cooling and is made to live in. This is a wonderful way to recycle and really cut the waste.

Beautiful homes in a *beautiful location.* The owner family will save a lot on maintenance and bills.

This is the nicest layout and great interior design I have seen with earthship homes

The homes are amazing, but just as beautiful are the true friends you are blessed with. 🙌😍

This earthship guest house is simply stunning. I love all its features, especially the living wall. Thanks Jenna for sharing this with us, I'm really enjoying these alternative living videos that you're making 👍👍👍

That guesthouse is a sensual sensory experience. I saw the ship neighborhood in New Mexico. May many more become homes.

Aluminum is pretty much the only thing that can be effectively recycled and is cheaper than harvesting new resources.

This is one of the best videos I have ever seen, across any media platform. I am well impressed. Beautiful. 🙏🏽

Thank you! I'm more inspired than ever to build our Earthship now 💖

I have been following Earthship designs for years. I’m surprised there was no mention or credit to Michael Reynolds the original architect and innovator of Earthships from Taos, New Mexico. For the history and birth of Earthship Trash Warrior is must see. Please give credit where credit is well deserved.

I'd love a house like this for myself ❤ I'm trying to grow food in flower pots and I'm looking forward to expanding the operation and living more sustainably, solar panels and the whole shebang 😊

I am watching this video for second time and feel like building such home for myself in one wonderful place. i love both the houses

I really adore the modern look of this earthship

All people on Earth should live like this ♻️ And we will save our planet 🌍🙏🏻

Wow! I'm from a very house efficient country and hard to impress, but this dude has taken it to another level. Magnificent house and place. Good for him!

I hope we all live like this one day,i total harmony with the environment. Fabulous job. Well done.

I absolutely love this home!!! Continued BLESSINGS

This is beautiful - I've seen videos of earthships before - but I didn't like them - also the people there were a little bit strange .... This guy here is really down to earth (😝) - very nice - and the house is great !! From Germany with love !! 🌻

You have totally inspired me Jeff! I have been researching tiny houses for about two years, but I'm concerned its going to be just too small for me, especially after you put all the equipment needed for solar and water catchment systems, etc. Was hoping to travel the country for two years before parking on my property in GA, but I'm resolved now to just getting a small travel trailer for that trip and have moved on to looking into other ideas for the small energy independent home on my property. Just recently started looking into shipping container homes which you can easily have more space just by adding containers, but still isn't exactly what I was looking to do. Seems everyone ultimately gets ac/heating units because the tiny houses themselves are just not energy efficient enough on their own. I would love to have more information about your build. Also if you believe I could do what you've done here, or something close, yet obviously on a smaller scale, utilizing shipping containers? I'm older and plan to build myself, so it's doubtful I could manage an entire adobe or cob house on my own, because I've actually considered them as well. Possibly with the framing of the containers I could then seal them in with the adobe/cob mixture? Also as for your water system, what is the system you are using to clean it and is it truly safe to drink? Are you pulling any spring water from the ground or other water sources? I was hoping to also utilize spring water as a back up system for those few months when we get very little rain here. Would love to hear your thoughts on any or all of the above or possibly you could direct me in the right direction for the correct information. I've read a lot of crazy stuff that possibly could be true about different systems, but seems you're very happy with yours which is the best seal of approval a person can get. Thanks!!!

Jenna thank you so much for this amazing tour in Montana, The state is near and dear to my heart thank you so much, love your videos!!

Can't get enough of Earthships. Thanks Jenna!

That was awesome! Ahhh, DREAMS!! Now tour the other one on his property!

Wow beautiful you gave me some ideas for my earthship am saving up for.

Congrats on the new baby!!! I’m so excited for you guys!!!

Love this home and its efficiency & attractiveness of it.

I would want a house like that someday. Even now if possible.

Wow! It’s gorgeous!!

I've seen this home before, idk where. But it's breathtakingly beautiful every time.

Amazing build one of the most eye catching builds I've seen on KZfaq. Would love to do this one day

Que lindo lugar para vivir, una casa bien hecha y sustentable, lo bueno de esto es que no tienes que pagar servicios, los felicito por ser como quieren vivir, abrazo desde mendoza argentina

I love it. What skills are required to manage a house like this? Do you need to be a plumber, electrician, etc., to be able to live long term here?

Best looking earth ship I’ve seen, well done.

Good day to you Sir, getting to you from down here in NM. You are what we call Chingon. A truly gifted person. Thank you

This went from a good earthship home story to an airbnb commercial.

YAY! I love refreshing my page only to find a new THGJ vid!

I'm completely sold and in love. GORGEOUS!

Yes, this man is an engineer. He speaks so effortlessly about how he created the different aspects of his house.

Because you used tires, with heat, doesn’t it emit certain gases? (I’m an asthmatic and am always thinking of things like this). I love this house!

WOW what an awesome looking house, all made with natural products of the land and. Runs on it too, no bills 👏🏽😜❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗🏡

It would be great to know how much it cost to build these houses. It's very inspiring to see what was done.

please google aluminum depletion! and google the costs and effort of producing new glas instead of recycling it. And folks, did you ever think about gas emitting from the tires breaking down in the walls? I don't think that this is healthy. Earth ships are cool but i very strongly doubt that this is as environmently friendly as many of you think.

I think that it's the coolest Earthship that I have seen. Amazing!

This is really unique. I love some of the concepts that he has utilized. Thanks for sharing.

The aluminum can dump has been greatly covered. My experience with slanting windows for the very reasons you explained are also catch basins for rain which can create leaking bottom seals and contribute greatly to wood frame deteriorating. Finally once the 10'x5'8" need replacing I can't imagine the cost. Im sure several common sizes would cost less than one of those mammoth panes. We learn thru our mistakes and applaud you for your progressive thinking.

Beautifully realized Earthships! Aluminum cans are recyclable. Why would you "entomb" a recyclable resource under pavers? Are there advantages to having an aluminum underlayment?

that is what i call a smart home so very cool . love your art .

I've always wanted to make an earthship. It makes so much sense

One of the best looking earthships I've seen! Thanks for sharing. Would love to have known the total cost to build each house (or did I miss it in the video?)

As housing evolves, this is inspiring! I see it like the sense of awe that people had back when at the time Frank Lloyd Wright was building his designs. I wonder what comes next? I wonder what specific issues arise later. For example, many of FLW’s flat roofs leaked. Fallingwater’s cantilever designs needed later reinforcement, etc. Old buildings HVAC systems became ‘infected’ with black mold and Legionnaires. Since the living space air circulation depends upon drawing air through the exterior intake tubes, what provisions are there for environmental pollutants such as smoke from forest fires and such? It is quite likely these things have all been carefully considered when engineering the structure. Surely, these concerns were beyond the scope of this video, so please do not think of these concerns as critical or negative. One other viewer considered the insurance aspects. Since insurance considers traditional construction methods, insuring to replacement cost would be difficult to calculate. Further, imagine a fire situation; how difficult would it be to repair with “like kind and quality.” Would the insurer determine repairs with traditional construction methods? I would definitely want to know the answers up front. Forgive my pragmatism. This house represents the next level. It is visually pleasing and functionally economical in design. It would be fantastic living there. What’s not to like? Though out of my reach, it is a dream house!

You just gave me the craziest idea with the tires! Thank you!

Earthships are incredible! Thank you Mike Reynolds the Garbage Warrior!❤️❤️❤️❤️

It has a tv I hope you never watch it 😂‼️ Love this place. I want to be his neighbor!!

LOL, awesome house. 50% renewable material sound like a big saving IF you build the house yourself to cut the labor cost because judging simply by 3:00 to do all that tires with dirt inside, even illegal labor cost still won't be cheap. Proving that anything with energy saving in mind will always be expensive for initial cost.

Love it! Seen many, this by far favorite. Great, clever ideas. Should be a building standard.

It is an amazing job. Congrats. People have lots tô learn with guys. Thanks for sharibg you ideas. 🥳🥳🥰🥰💙💙

This guy looks like a younger Dennis Quaid :)

2:12 This actually sort of upset me. He made it seem as if his only option were tacking to a landfill or burying them under the pavers. As far as I can tell they use served no practical purpose other than to bury them in the ground(landfill). If all he was doing was trying to keep them out of a landfill he should have taken them to a scrapyard that recycles aluminum.

So awesome Jeff and inspiration to many of us... Thanks

This earthship home is amazing 😍 I love it!!

If the house takes care of it's self, where do you get the gas for the stove, propane ? You would need to buy it.

I'd really love to live in one of these unfort I live in Germany. Here they'd never allow you to build an earthship because you not allowed to burying garbage on your property. Second reason they say it's a too unsafe construction because there are no references of similar buildings. Means they expect the building wont hold long therefore it's a thread to the inhabitants and this leads you to never get a permisson to build one. And lastly they just dont want to have selfsuficiant people you are even forced to be on grid by law! I really hope they change this soon because housing prices are incredibly high and we need other solvings which dont harm our environment as it does today building with concrete.

Such a gorgeous and productive home! 👌

Not only self sufficient and environmentally conscious but also beautifully stylish. LOVE.

...sustainable building is where we all need to go, for sure. earthships can teach us a lot, but they are getting left behind while revealing design flaws themselves, imo. hope to build ICF perimeter for thermal bridging with the earth, wide-overhang ICF roof with metal on top, buried tunnel/vent scrub-assisted cooling for fresh air, southern glass with solid surface flooring for solar heat gain, solar overkill feeding the grid/neighbors, & water catchment/reuse. immune to pests, most natural disasters, & nearly immune to time. ...but no tires (off-gassing), no bottles/cans (better recycled infinitely), no slanted windows beyond the roof-line (water damage), no watering within my foundation (erosion issues), no batteries (mining/e-waste), no use of fossil fuels (i know, the range is nice...), no split garden/living areas (hot up front, cold in back), & no living in non-temperate zones that make the house's systems come up short.

I've read something about the tires off gassing as they decompose. If true, that could be an issue.

Tiny house built on concept! Perfect!

No needed words. It's perfect!

I wonder if there are any concerns with radon and off-gassing from the tires?

There's almost no where near me where you could legally build this, live in it full time, get garbage, recycling curbside pick up and get an actual civic address. No company would insure it or the belongings inside. The technology to build more sustainable homes has been present for a good while now, what is lacking is any kind of courage from the authorities to look into these technologies. Putting a home like this into a regular urban landscape would likely be seen as something that would bring down the property values of the homes near it. That's unfortunately the reality for many of us right now.

That home is beyond cool!!!

I've always wanted an Earthship & love that you've made these from recycled materials with all the technology Mike Reynolds developed with his original Earthship community in Taos, New Mexico where I've visited. I'm dreaming of a tiny, off grid home, especially an Earthship so I'm definitely saving this for future reference. Many thanks!

So, what temperature range does the house stay year round?

"...month after month was a $1200 Propane bill,..." What? How?

What an amazing home and an amazing owner. Love it!

Love this idea. I'd love to build something like this someday.

Applying The Universal Laws Of (Constructive) Life. In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and ultimately destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends. --Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Christmas Sermon on Peace," The Trumpet of Conscience, 24 December 1967. "We must overcome the powerful obstacles of our histories, our institutions and our hearts." ( Forward to last MLK Book, "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community".

Aluminium is not rare on earth in bauxite put refining it is energy expensive, these cans would recycle well, saving around 80% of the energy needed to make more, using them as land fill is wasteful.

I believe I saw this house on a TV show. But it never looked like this. This is beautiful !

A DJ,s dreamhouse. You can crank up the music and not worry about neighbors calling the police. Love it. No nosey neighbors looking to cause trouble. Yes!!!

If you build an earthship, don't buy aluminium cans. If you must buy aluminium cans, then recycle them, don't bury them.

Great house! However the video was not enough to really understand the layout, and how the spaces connected. Wish it was more revealing.