I want to build an Earthship!

[Cloud]

oh, I agree--just woolgathering, trying to counter some common arguments (in my head, if nowhere else).

There are a lot of alternative building techniques and materials out there. I'd have to do some serious research and networking before then.

It sort of amazes me we don't have more of this stuff in my area. Too poor and uneducated, I guess. But we have colonias where there are no facilities, and lots of people squatting on them with less serviceable houses. We have an adobe yard and quarries nearby. And we have sun, of course.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You don't have to go whole hog hippie. No reason you can't build that kind of home, with electric service and plumbing to keep a comfortable lifestyle, and still have a paid for abode with low utilities.

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You don't have to go whole hog hippie. No reason you can't build that kind of home, with electric service and plumbing to keep a comfortable lifestyle, and still have a paid for abode with low utilities.

there are a lot of ways to make a home "greener" if that's what one wants, and some lovely "hybrid" homes are being built. Advantages to earthship proper, would be cost and ease of permitting, since it's a known item.

and I really don't have to travel far (if at all) to be whole hog hippie, anyway.