Houses Made of Old Tires and Cans
Earthship is a company that has put together a book that will tell you everything you need to know if you want to build your own house totally out of recycled materials like used tires and cans. This is also a house that can function almost 100% off the grid.
I read this on their website and I think it says it all:
“We must realize that we, the users of the vessel (the home), are part of the vessel. This is much the same as we, the users of the Earth, are part of the earth. The Earthship is a participant in the prevailing systems of planet earth. It causes no conflict, no stress, no depletion, and no trauma to the planet earth.
Just as the human body is a result of the various systems that support it - (circulatory systems, nervous systems, respiratory systems, etc…) so must the Earthship be a product of the systems that support it. In view of this, we have made the Earthship systems both understandable and available to the common everyday human. Systems are generally 25 percent of the construction cost of a home, providing little to no utility bills every month.”
Read everything you need to know by visiting their website.
[via] www.earthship.net
