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!! =)