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green sustainable: Earthship's What is it? - 01/12/09 05:04 PM
Earthship In Flagstaff, AZ
 
Earthship's are Earth sheltered autonomous buildings. Made by recycling automobile tires and ramming earth in them. Rammed earth is taking clay or sand and packing it into the tires(and other objects). Earthship's are made from a lot of recycled material often including beverage bottles and cans for non-load bearing walls. Earthship's may function is to be earth friendly. As mentioned they are built with recycled materials (automobile tires, beverage bottles, recycled wood, just about anything). The are also self sufficient with their utilities. Water is collected of the roof and stored in a cistern, then filtered … (23 comments)