Sustainable Building Methods

Alastor wrote: Did you not say:

$10k(plus labour) to build.

That is expensive to some people, myself for example.

Well where I live my buddy pays $700/month for a 2 bedroom apartment plus $100/month electric so he could own his own home in about 2 years if he got a lot for $10k and a home for $10k. Also factor in $400/month for food and suddenly earth-ships seem very attractive to people who can invest their own time for labour.

Some people can go much smaller and the price goes down accordingly. One time I lived in a 350 sq ft apartment and paid $400/month. I just built a 200 sq ft geodesic dome earth-ship greenhouse for $1k and $400 went to pay for clay because our soil doesn't have any so with clay you can do 200 sq ft for $600 and maybe 400 sq ft is $1200.

Some other methods have been to use compressed earth bricks and you make the compressor for $2k and then build unlimited sq ft and put straw-bales between the outer walls for insulation. You could also get a sawmill for $2k and cut your own wood for savings on a big house.

I would love to be..(and perhaps live)..in an earth ship. It's a great idea.

They've built them in the CO mountains and AZ desert which gets cold at night. Both straw-bale and earth-ship do well in cold climates.

I hate to point out the obvious... but there is a severe lack of ships in the earth ships...

But there are a lot of ships on the Earth!

hahahhahahhahahha :woohoo:

Straw and sand and earth. And lots of work. And the land of course. I do have 40 acres here in Michigan here in the boonies I could build one at. lol. As far as money, gah. Always a road block.

they confuse recycling with repurposing. What they are doing is put tiny landfills everywhere and make people live in them...

Yes, repurposing....

But, when this technology came out, "repurposing" wsntva word, lol...

"Living in tiny landfills"...

I am no longer going to say, "im headed toward the house"...

"Im going to the landfill"

:laugh:

ren wrote: they confuse recycling with repurposing. What they are doing is put tiny landfills everywhere and make people live in them...

Nice landfills at the least.

hahhahahahhahahhahhaha :woohoo:

Ren... that was funny! I almost spit coffe all over my computer!