I think Dh is thinking the same thing.
Though I have to admit when he came home and told me he wanted to build an earthship I did think perhaps he had gone a little nuts
they did an earthship on an episode of grand designs a few years back - was awesome! Everything was recycled, reclaimed, renewable or double glazed - awesome house!
We're building at the moment, and going for solar passive and as sustainable a design as we could possibly get away with whilst using a volume builder. We would have loved to build truly green (although I don't think I could go for a composting toilet), it's just so hard to find builders willing to work with requested materials, and we don't have the time to do it ourselves...
An earthship or strawbale or rendered earth home would have been SO cool =) I would be so interested in watching your build progress if you go this route - please make sure you keep us updated!! =)
Somewoman, I saw that same Grand Designs episode. It was fascinating to watch. There is an entire movement dedicated to building these homes and the labour is made up of people who are all building, or want to build, their own earthship. If you have people come and help you it is sort of expect that you will then go on and help someone else down the track, like a pooling of resources. The way they build them are so innovative. There is a family who live about 20km from us who are building one - a straw bale house - our DS's are friends and I can't wait to see it when it is finished. It will be completely off the grid when it is done.
Strawbale seems to work on that cooperative thing as well. They hold "lessons" using a house that is currently being built so that you know what to do when you build yours. It helps them, helps you and when it is your turn to build then you have a "lesson" as your house. We dearly wish to build with strawbale. Trillian it would be great if you could get photos of that house.
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