I agree. I love the spirit of Earthship, but it is certainly not a one size fits all solution. Diversity is a key element of sustainability.

@Pecker Dúnling San Patricio Space Dolphin Brigada I bet that’s true in most cases, but Earthship Biotecture was actually hired for construction in Manhattan recently (and many other cities like philly)! Land masters are surely an issue of great magnitude for sustainability, along with power dynamics as a whole, but I sense more than a little too much intentional focus on the iconic earthship form for publicity’s sake rather than on its appropriate adjustment/reinvention for other climates, to hopefully carry out the mission they seek to achieve.

@Pecker Dúnling San Patricio Space Dolphin Brigada YES!! Such an exciting concept.

the idea of the earthship is to store heat in the walls and underneath the house. I was thinking it might be cheaper and more effective to store the heat further underground and vent it into the house like you could collect a load of heat under some plastic sheet with a tube spiralling down underground. over the summer it could just sit there and soak into the ground and then come winter you open the vent into the house and control the flow rate to manage the heat. the light in the winter together with escaping heat along the edge would be enough to pre heat the air before it goes deeper down into a huge battery of heat. you could heat a tipi or a straw bale structure with it and turn it down over night to conserve the heat. kind of like how they cool the earthship in the summer using a trench. it seems like there is no need to put the thermal mass in the actual house just attach the house to the thermal mass. then the house can be designed with windows on 3 sides and made smaller so it is cheaper and more modular. you could even use the roof to collect the heat. you could errect a yurt ontop of ground you had heated in the summer and put straw round it to protest the ground round the outside. then move the yurt to a cooler spot over the summer and vent it with a cool air pipe. I hooked something up to a house air vent and it warmed it up after a couple weeks. it was preety mild climate but it could be heated with just a couple square meter of plastic sheet and a long pipe. it works nice if you put the fire on aswell coz it draws a load of warm air in instead of the usual cold. instead of being 15 it was up around 20 degrees just with the makshift version. quite amazing really so I was thinking how much better it would work if it was storing the heat from the autumn underground and lagging out the nights. a lot of houses need to be vented in anycase to stop mold and damp. the more the better really. If your providing air intake then it pressurises the space more so less cold air is leaking in elsewhere.

YES, YES, YES

That goes on everywhere! Not saying is right.

True, but M. Reynolds is the one Physically abusing. And people want to believe he does good. His business is a front to lure hopeful individuals in to abuse them. By “volunteering” when all he uses them for is to do his grunt work, gets them drunk and creates an environment of disgust and filth. .You don’t know shit if you haven’t worked there and got too know him yourself.