Walls of rammed earth and old tyres, water caught and used three times over, warmth held through the night by the ground itself. Earthships are less a style of building than a way of paying attention.
The prototype and grandfather of recycling-built, self-sufficient homes — with a food forest growing inside that cleans the water and regulates the climate of the space itself. So inspiring, what's possible.
And they really are ships: not only in the way they look, but in how independent they are of almost every communal structure. Out in the high desert of Taos, New Mexico, they grow pineapple and papaya through the winter.
Everything is possible, and it's not so difficult — it's all been here for so long; we just have to open up to it and make use of it.
