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The 6 Principles of Earthship from Earthship.com
1) Thermal/Solar Heating & Cooling
Earthships maintain comfortable temperatures in any climate. The planet Earth is a thermally stabilizing mass that delivers temperature without wire or pipes. The sun is a nuclear power plant that also delivers without wires or pipes. Through strategically placing windows and skylights, there is an optimal flow of air that works to cool the building.
2) Solar & Wind Electricity
Earthships produce their own electricity with a prepackaged photovoltaic / wind power system. This energy is stored in batteries and supplied to your electrical outlets. Earthships can have multiple sources of power, all automated, including grid-intertie.
3) Contained Sewage Treatment
Earthships contain use and reuse all household sewage in indoor and outdoor treatment cells resulting in food production and landscaping with no pollution of aquifers. Toilets flush with greywater that does not smell.
4) Building with Natural & Recycled Materials
House as Assemblage of by-products: A sustainable home must make use of indigenous materials, those occurring naturally in the local area.
5) Water Harvesting
Earthships catch water from the sky (rain & snow melt) and use it four times. Water is heated from the sun, biodiesel and/or natural gas. Earthships can have city water as backup. Earthships do not pollute underground water aquifers.
6) Food Production
Earthship wetlands, the planters that hold hundreds of gallons of water from sinks and the shower are a great place for raising some of the fresh produce you’d like to have in the winter, but find expensive or bland tasting from the supermarket.
How you can Live a Bit Lighter with the Land and in Greater Harmony with your Surroundings
Put a tub in the sink when you do your dishes and use that water to water your plants outside. The plants like the soap and food scrap juice.
Keep your bath or shower water and scoop it out to water your plants either inside or outside.
Pay Attention!!!
Use Natural Light as much as possible. How do you not have to turn the lights on?
Open your windows and crack the windows in the right way to get optimal air flow when it is hot and keep them closed in the winter. Can you use thermal blinds on your windows and gain a couple of degrees so you don't have to crank up your heater? How can you manipulate your space for the least energy usage?
For more information about Earthships please visit: http://earthship.com/ https://www.earthshipglobal.com/
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