“How to make an earthship from earthbags? A South African friend of mine asked me to design an earthbag house for him for his site in Portugal.
Earthbag Earthship Design, Portugal
Eco Nest 1200
This 1,434 sf home was designed specifically for an off grid building site. Its floorplan allows all spaces to be easily heated by the solar gain or a woodstove at night.
Family Quits City Life to Live Off-Grid in a Giant Yurt
Lucy is living off-grid with her family, in a yurt, in New Zealand, while unschooling their kids, running a farm, and freelancing as a digital nomad. The family quit their jobs, sold their home, and sold most of their belongings, and left London to go live off-grid in a tiny house a.k.a. a yurt in New Zealand.
Incinolet Electric Incinerating Toilets
How it works: Drop bowl liner into toilet bowl. Bowl liner catches and contains all waste plus paper. Flush bowl by stepping on foot pedal. Push start button to incinerate waste automatically. INCINOLET uses electric heat to reduce human waste (urine, solids, paper) to a small amount of clean ash, which is dumped periodically into … Read more
Firefighter’s Earthship Inspired Off-Grid Urban Tiny House
“Earthship design is all about experimentation and innovation and that’s exactly the case with this incredible tiny house on wheels. Firefighter Steve was inspired to build a tiny house incorporating Earthship principles after completing a course on Earthship Biotecture design and building in New Mexico.”
No Work Compost – The Easiest Way to Make Compost?
“We’ve been using this simple compost system for the last 2-3 years and it has worked great for us. In fact, this is how we got our best compost ever. Our first attempt using this easy compost method produced hundreds of papaya plants that sprouted from the compost as volunteers. Papayas don’t normally like to be transplanted, but these plants did great probably because the soil was so microbial rich.