Where ru? Looking for a place near to WI for some learning/hands on...

did you manage to build it?

bro no way

sick big man

nah bro u lie

how many eggs should i put on my pan?

@@bishfvdisg1308 yes

A real Hippie is the opposit of a real gangsta. FACTS.

Hi love. How did your trip go and your stay in the Hobbit house?

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Putting an earthship in a modern city might be too big a challenge, but what I could see is a rethinking of how we design cities to be in harmony with the land. We see these buildings can be amazingly diverse within a couple of successful form factors... it is conceivable that instead of concrete jungles, we'll have cities which emerge from the hillsides, with homes and businesses that exemplify a symbiotic relationship with the planet. It would be great to see this concept developed for commercial and mixed commercial-residential considerations, aside from simple rentals or model houses.

It's heeeere!

Me too. Looks like heaven.

Don't be so sure about not having to win the lottery , those things are expensive ( true , the Builders use all the scrap in the aera They can get Their hands on ) !!$$!! Look at the BIG picture here ! First , You HAVE to have the land to build on (it helps to for it to be somewhere You WANT to LIVE ) ! You have to be able to get all permits nec. ( not to mention a Architect to design one for You @ make everything fit @ work ) . Lets not forget the other systems either ... You know , solar , water ... Way more complicated than a regular house ( Its used more than once and it can't leak ... ) . You see the list just goes on and on ! Oh by the way , You've probably noticed I haven't mentioned pounding all that dirt into ALL those er um lovely TIRES !!! Oh Your aching back !!?? You gotta LOVE IT , AIN'T THEY CHEAP !!! I don't know where You would get um .. earthship insurance , if You ever actually get it built !

I'm a single mom who lost her business to Covid, and I'm building one right now from upcycled materials for next to nothing! If there's a will there's a way

There is an awesome earthship built in canada by an older couple that turned out awesome.

@@ginadelsasso288 Yes Port Dover couple The Cooks. $70,000 build

There is a Canadian branch of the company (they are licensed nationwide), and there are earthships in several sprvoices (to include Ontario). The most I've seen are here in Québec, there are quite a few here.

Mike keeps bringing up an East Texas build here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eK6CaMuquajSg4E.html basically, gotta redo the math for the cisterns, and ensure you have overflows to not flood yourself in the case of too much rain also, the convection air-conditioning mechanism they designed with a back-tunnel and a 2nd or 3rd greenhouse can help you control humidity and temperatures: simply open/close the doors to the greenhouse plus, no skylights (less moving pieces), keep it simple

The little pond 😍😍

bro thats crazy but i dont remember asking

Five (of six) simple steps: 1) In the morning (mid-morning, say 9-10 am), pound a stick in the level ground. Make sure the stick is exactly upright and won't topple over accidentally. 2) Observe where the shadow of the tip of the stick lands on the ground. Mark it by driving a peg into the ground at that place. If you do it in the morning as instructed, that place will be a northwesterly direction from the stick. (Southwesterly in the southern hemisphere.) 3) Tie a string around the stick, make it long enough to reach the peg, mark an arc from that peg around the stick in a northeasterly direction. (Note that our strategy depends on observing two shadows exactly the same length, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. The arc helps us find when the second shadow is exactly as long as the first shadow.) 4) In the afternoon (mid-afternoon, about 2-4 pm), wait and observe where the shadow of the tip of the stick lands once again on the arc. Mark it with a second peg. If you do it in the afternoon as instructed, that place will be in a northeasterly direction from the stick. (Southeasterly in the southern hemisphere.) 5) Draw a straight line between the two pegs. It will be an exact east-west line. 6) Use elementary geometry (or a carpenter's square) to draw a perpendicular line to the east-west line. That line will be an exact north-south line. You can check your work at night in the northern hemisphere by observing that the north end of the north-south line should be pointing to the star Polaris, however, this is not guaranteed to be exact since the north star changes over time. Also, if you have a watch or clock set to standard time, the stick's shadow at noon will point to within 15 degrees of north (south in the southern hemisphere). (It's not exact because time zones are about 15 degrees wide and many aren't centered on the local time meridian.) If your timepiece is set to daylight time, you have to wait until 1 o'clock because your timepiece is ahead of the sun by one hour. If you know exactly which minute the sun is directly overhead in your location (and your timepiece is accurate) you can get a much better result. Finally, if you have a compass, it too will be in agreement with your other methods, to an accuracy of about 10 degrees depending on magnetic declination in your area. Some maps will give you an exact magnetic declination for your area, which allows you to get a much better result.

Survival model would be perfect for you.

@@ginadelsasso288 Not sure what that is thanks and good vibebrations.

Survival model would be great for you, it's like a studio apartment, one room with just the basics. I've found a few videos that tour the design and build on one, but you might like the corner cottage better, a bit more room.

Exactly, it seemed cold and rude.

John Macomber that or dude is like, a little Asberger-y. No shade, but they could have said something about it in the production of this.

@@AK-df3lh yes i beleive yes

I get the feeling that he is annoyed by the interviewer.

He's not being rude, I do that too. I think he's just wanting to express a really in-depth topic. Looking at the person while you're talking is distracting to the mental process.

I would say you can do it yourself, addressing Michael Reynolds 6 points. The current stardard of earth ships are elitist in that they require copious amounts of labor and expensive materials and systems. They get around this with the pyramid scheme of students paying for the opportunity to build a home. What makes earth ships work is thermal mass, insulation, solar radiation, ventilation. Tandum paver retaining walls (belguard mega tandum) can be errected quickly, cheaply, using machinery. AireCrete as an insulator, dome, arch, interior wall material is diy and inexpensive. Used 260 gallon totes can be used for the rainwater storage. Seperation dry composting toilets negate the costly septic systems. The high costs can be worked out of the design. The survival 600 square feet models were quoted at 50k in one video, but I'm not sure if that is the all in cost. A Canada earthship was built at 70k materials, and with volunteer/ student labor. I like how everyones junk and cars are lying around in the open, because there are no garages or basement or attic storage.

if you decide to buy / live in the Earthship subdivision outside Taos, NM... with students that help build it WITH YOU... then you could probably get away with $100,000 for something simple. Nice set up easily $250k. You need lithium batteries for solar storage, wind capture with a really awesome turbine that's a work of art, water capture with sisterns in the back... and 10,000 tires... depending upon how fancy you get with appliances... most kitchens run about $10,000 worth of appliances, etc., bathrooms a lot less. I was there in 2017... love Earthships... and what Michael Reynolds has done... and I'm proud of the State of New Mexico for finally deciding to support his efforts. There was a LOT of issue with him 'not being on grid'. It was a fight but in the end Mike convinced them that sustainability is the way to go. Still had to get 'the power grid' set up...

luv2dancesalsa so how much would a 8,000sqft earthship cost? And how long would it take to build?

Well I'm building one, you can come help lol

Off gassing does accure if the tires are exposed to air or sunlight. If they are completely concealed then no off gassing accures. Earthships can survive in cold climates with a little adaption. But the passive solar design works anywhere there is sun and earthships just take it to the extreme.

Not true (what you heard)... watch KZfaq videos where there are his classes... in colder climates the 'air intake' tubes that run behind the house and create the 'airflow' when they are opened (along with the upper windows to allow air to escape) just need to be longer... they're buried underground but the length is calculated to determine how many feet are necessary to bring the air to the desired temperature... 65 degrees or something. So... they've successfully built in cold climates.

Naked Dharma from my research if they properly place the tires as in no air and sun hits them they’ll be ok and they can survive in cold climates there’s literally a video of a man and his wife in their earthship in Canada and he’s growing tomatoes lol and it’s snow outside, they just have to modify the built in AC to match the climate, earthships can be built anywhere a home can be built(excluding like antartica lol)

Incorrect statement

Absolutely freaking love those hand made collums!! They really open up the flow and address the square wood greenhouse look

Near Salem Oregon? Interested in making your own kombucha? Contact me, I may have new SCOBYs to share

I doubt it, they're (the establishment) are gonna lose control of us if we go off grid. Has always been a battle, think of the hippie communes of the past, some have survived successfully until now but they've always been frowned on by the establishment.

1. Comfortable Shelter2. Water3. Electricity4. Treating own Sewer5. Dealing with own Garbage6. Producing your own Food

Look up exploring alternatives channel on youtube. That channel has a tour of one that has many windows and looks very modern. I think the title says something about it being innovative lol.

It's a man's home, so you may not be able to stay in it, but it should give you an idea of what you could do if you wanted to build one.

For most people, yeah. If you want to go back to the stone age, no. The annoying thing about Earthships is that most people are perfectly willing to accept the local grid alternatives for electricity, water and sewer. There doesn't seem to be any compromise with an Earthship. It's either off grid or it's not an Earthship.

dlwatib yup and the earthship needs far less power since it has it’s own water and ac system, the solar/wind energy will be purely for lights/TV, etc etc

Skip the religion thing for a single solitary moment and think about sustainable living as redeemable of itself. Only after your are sheltered, fed, watered, and water treated can you contemplate religion. Get it?

lets see your list: * scattered green plants not enough to support a person - pff that area there can support 10 people if that space becomes vertical farming. Will not be as beautiful but who cares. Instead that space makes food. Is functional. * fuel for cooking stove - use an electric heater which gets power from solar but if you rely rely like fire, then compost can leak out gases which bun. That can be made from food scraps and enzymes. Ive seen a youtube video on a bio compost stuff which was producing gas for cooking. * drinking water - on the iss (international space station) people drink their own pee and perspiration. Because any water of any kind can be filtered, clean and drink. All it matters to be the H2O molecule - does not matter where it comes form as long as you can properly filter. So you can drink your pee just fine - but given this earth ship collects water with the roof you can process that too. * schooling - school should be online. This hole idea of dropping the kids to school, picking them up from school, clothe them, make breakfast - 2 hours a day wasted life - why? - is that the best way? clearly not - is rely rely rely retarded. Education should be done online. All of it. Universities, campuses all of it. Where is the sanity of putting 200 people in an amphitheater and 1 person in front teaches the same lesson over and over for decades - when that exact video can be seen on something like youtube - and all those people sit in place - at home, dont use another building which needs heat, cars, gas, roads, bridges, traffic, managers of the building, administrators, security... All of it is supper dumb. Rely dumb. For person to person interaction this earthsips should form villages such that your kids and your neighbour kids can play together, do experiments, hackathon, anything interactive is done in the same "neighborhood" since with traditional school is kind of the same. And when kids grow up they move to centers which make interaction easy - like hakatlons, labs, research centers, but not for participating in a course. The university and school is centered around courses and the teacher and that's boring, you can't play it back like youtube - in one word - dumb. Champuses should be more like what happens inside a hands on lab - where you rely touch stuff, talk to people, even a lot of that will be done trough virtual reality. If you can play a game for 8 hours - and feel "you are there" - then why would reality not be made such that is possible, accessible, easy - natural to so day to day stuff like lab work, design. You drive a car in a video game and feels real. The technology is here. The vision of what it rely needs to be for real is not. * custom glass - what is custom glass exactly? Glass cut to shape with a water jet cutter. You order this, you scan the hole if you don't know dimensions upfront - and they come exactly as you wish. Can even be fully automated. Like cement or anything else you buy. Getting glass should not be hard. Also you don't rely need custom glass. You can change your house to use prefabs if you so prefer. * logs - yes big problem in areas where they dont exist - since shipping many bulky log is gonna be more expensive then the logs themselves. But who said you need any logs. You just use something else available to you in the area - like pvc pipe filled with clay + rebar or filled with concrete + rebar etc. Who said only logs count? * steel insulated roof - there are many roofing products you can find an alternative just fine. Maybe is cheaper maybe not - but out of what is available sandwich panels are one of the cheapest i know of. * water tanks - hmm yes. but more expensive is all the piping and fittings for such a big house with garden inside and stuff. * custom cabinets - make them yourself and are 80% cheaper. KZfaq is filled with tutorials. you can even make them out of foam, paint it and looks cool if given enough care. You can't tell the difference if is from ikea or made by somebody like yourself. Last point - eartships are not supposed to be in the middle of the desert. Somebody told me that was an experiment and they got 60% sun efficiency in Antarctica using solar panels. So is not because of the sun. You can find enough sun in many other places just fine. The desert presented in the video i think is just cheap real estate to prove living in super tough conditions - not something every earthship must do. Hard to keep them cool in the desert. Temperate climates will work better for earthsips. They can be made very good. We dont have any real limitations with them. Is not like putting satellites in orbit. This is easy. Can be made as good as you want it.

You don't have to believe in it because all the things that are purported to be contributing to global warming are still shitty! Pollution, environmental destruction, et al... Patently undesirable things.

Doesn't mean we shouldn't consider our environmental impact. We're terrible, regardless of what the science says.

Sustainable living has nothing or little to do with CC

You sound needy. This guy is sharing what he has to share. He is probably tired of dealing with people who are never satisfied and that is why he lives like a hermit on the mesa, and grounds himself in nature like Frank Lloyd Wright.

@@helenpatterson3858 Then why do an interview? Far more that goes in to the social psychology than you're seeing.

@@hatchattack02 No respect? Or socially awkward? Not the same. He talked with him, and even shook his hand. Doesn't sound disrespectful to me. He's on a mission, and that's clear in any interview I've seen him give. Save your judgement and just let the guy do his thing.

I find it interesting that you’ve chosen to criticize the one guy who understands the word “respect” better than most of us . Wow.

eye contact doesn't equal respect lol I never make eye contact with strangers cuz its awkward

Let the biotect make some money... he puts it ALL back into the business. Labor intensive... even with free labor (as you state), the managers and people that Mike has working with him, designing, teaching... they deserve an income. Right?

SuicidelG well it costs 225$ per sqft so a 500k earthship would be around 2,500$ sqft kind of expensive but the majority of people can get a nice sized earthship if they truly wanted one, once it’s built you got power water food all 100% you don’t have to pay anymore just live there

Why don’t you think about it long and hard… 👀

The visual that a person presents is just that, a visual, it may not conform to what you consider 'normal' and make you uncomfortable. Try to look further than the surface. There are some forms of art that make me uncomfortable too, Salvador Dali comes immediately to mind, but the doesn't mean it's not good. It's peoples thoughts and actions that count most though and that comes from the inside.

Just rewatch, try to go a bit deeper than the surface. You may find a reasonable, well thought out product of sustainability that might enhance your "experience." BTW speak for yourself...I'm just saying that your reply undermines your credibility. You present as shallow and lonely and selfish, in short, a millennial. Comes off as weak and wishy washy. Perhaps that's what you were going for...lol.