In honor of Earth Day, we celebrate earth homes known as Earthships. What is an Earthship? According to Earthship Biotecture :
Earthships are solar independent buildings that heat and cool themselves, are self powered, harvest their own water and deal with their own waste.The major structural building component of the Earthship is recycled automobile tires filled with compacted earth to form a rammed earth brick encased in steel belted rubber. This brick and the resulting bearing walls it forms is virtually indestructible.
Earthships also use recycled cans and bottles. They need not be built into the earth but may be. The benefit of using the earth is not for the insulation properties of soil. In fact, soil does not insulate well at all.
Here’s a subterranean secret according to Mother Earth News.
See how an earthship was built here.
