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Building an earthship in 16 days

 

Most of you will probably be asking the question,   what is an earthship?   Well it is  an ecologically friendly home build from recycled and sustainable materials and are also almost completely self sustaining.  They are starting to gain in popularity.  A group in Nicaragua is taking on the challenge of building a home in 16 days.  They are also using it as an excuse to do training and incresae awareness which is a good thing.

Obviously solutions like this aren't going to work in high density populations such as cities but they still could become an important part of our future.  There is much talk about it and people are starting to experiment but we don't have anything that reaches the level of earthships yet.

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Sunday 2 December, 2007 11:06 PM
 
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