Earthship Design Principles

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Today in an Earthship: 94º outside, 70º inside.
Every day in an Earthship: no air conditioning, no utility bills, no blackouts.

1. Thermal/Solar Heating & Cooling: Earthships maintain comfortable temperatures in any climate. The planet Earth is a thermally stabilizing mass that delivers temperature without wire or pipes. The sun is a nuclear power plant that also delivers without wires or pipes.
2. Solar & Wind Electricity Earthships produce their own electricity with a prepackaged photovoltaic / wind power system. This energy is stored in batteries and supplied to your electrical outlets. Earthships can have multiple sources of power, all automated, including grid-intertie.
3. Contained Sewage Treatment Earthships contain use and reuse all household sewage in indoor and outdoor treatment cells resulting in food production and landscaping with no pollution of aquifers. Toilets flush with greywater that does not smell.
4. Building with Natural & Recycled Materials House as Assemblage of by-products: A sustainable home must make use of indigenous materials, those occurring naturally in the local area.
5. Water Harvesting Earthships catch water from the sky (rain & snow melt) and use it four times. Water is heated from the sun, biodiesel and/or natural gas. Earthships can have city water as backup. Earthships do not pollute underground water aquifers.
6. Food Production Earthship wetlands, the planters that hold hundreds of gallons of water from sinks and the shower are a great place for raising some of the fresh produce you’d like to have in the winter, but find expensive or bland tasting from the supermarket.

Earthship Design Principles

Radically Sustainable Buildings

Retrofit your home / office with Earthship Biotecture.

Add some or all of the Earthship Systems to your building.

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Reduce and even eliminate your utility bills.

Get ALL of your electricity from the sun and the wind.

Catch water from the sky for drinking, bathing, cleaning, showering, washing, flushing, etc.

Contain and treat ALL of the sewage you produce in a healthy and beautiful way.

Maintain comfortable temperatures in your building ALL year long, in any climate. Reduce or even eliminate your heating and cooling bills.