Christine Kuglen

Have you looked at the website www.earthship.org? These are homes that are completely off the grid...
-Christine


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--- In [email protected], "Christine Kuglen"
<wanderfree@h...> wrote:
> Have you looked at the website www.earthship.org? These are homes
that are completely off the grid...
> -Christine

Completely off the grid? Some of my best friends live in
earthships. The original community is in the Taos, NM, area, hardly
off the grid. But earthships have now landed in communities all over
the globe. These are blissfully quiet, delectably comfortable living
spaces. And you can even rent one in the Taos area to stay in for a
few nights to see if earthship living is really for you.

Lots of good innovation still going on in New Mexico regarding
variations like straw bale homes, rammed earth homes, and of course,
the traditional labor intensive southwestern mainstay, the adobe
home. Many live with photovoltaic electricity, composting toilets,
gravity fed water systems, Servel refrigerators, passive and active
solar heating, Paloma water heaters (heat as you use), solar water
heating, and other alternatives. Some counties even allow grey water
systems!

Another interesting place that challenges one to rethink the concept
of shelter is The Shelter Institute in Woolwich, Maine. They teach
people how to design and build their own "shelter," nudge students to
reconsider every aspect of the shelter concept.

Norma