Low-tech Magazine
This
autumn, the British coastal city of
It’s the first time that a European city council has given builders the green
light to mass construct this radical ecological housing form. In the
been built, most of them in the
A dirt
cheap and 100 percent ecological house that has all the comforts of an ordinary
home, without being connected to the electricity grid, waterworks, sewer system
or the natural gas network. It does exist, but in most countries, building one
is not allowed.
An Earthship
is a completely self-sufficient house that has a natural temperature regulation,
without the use of a heating system. The building also generates its own
electricity, collects and filters its own drinking water and cleans its own
effluent water. The house is partly buried into the earth and is constructed mainly
with waste materials; car tyres, aluminium cans and glass bottles. This
low-tech building approach is ecologically as well as economically
advantageous.
This
autumn, the British coastal city of
It’s the first time that a European city council has given builders the green
light to mass construct this radical ecological housing form. In the
been built, most of them in the