Builders of Worlds IVEarthship village ecologies, New Mexico, by Michael Reynolds.“Throughout the la
Builders of Worlds IVEarthship village ecologies, New Mexico, by Michael Reynolds.“Throughout the last forty years Earthship Biotecture has been working toward developing a fully sustainable prototype home that has a zero carbon footprint on the planet. We arrived at this in the early 2000’s and are still perfecting and refining it. We have a building prototype that harvests its own electricity and water; contains and treats its own sewage; and heats and cools itself without fuel and produces a significant amount of food.The building is built from 45% recycled materials… thus starting the construction of the building with a negative carbon footprint. Discarded materials take the place of new materials that require energy to produce. Also, once used, discarded materials, would have taken energy to dispose of. There is no energy required to reuse existing materials. This further contributes to a negative carbon foot print at the birth of the building.”Excerpt and photografies from Source 1 -- source link
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