Christine Kuglen

>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.< Norma


I may have misunderstood the website and I certainly don't know anyone living in an earthship but I have visited the website often and it seems to me that the earthship community in NM is off the grid.

An earthship can be off the grid even in a community that is not out in the middle of nowhere. Off the grid simply means that you are not plugged into the grid. Am I wrong?

-Christine




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Schuyler Waynforth <[email protected]>

No, they are off the grid. They don't get power or water from
anything but immediate sources. We stumbled upon them on a camping
trip about 5 years ago and are hoping to be able to build one in the
next 4 years or so. You can have an earthship be on the grid, if
required by code, but the goal is to be a completely self-sufficient
house.

Schuyler

--- In [email protected], "Christine Kuglen"
<wanderfree@h...> wrote:
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> >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.< Norma
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> I may have misunderstood the website and I certainly don't know
anyone living in an earthship but I have visited the website often
and it seems to me that the earthship community in NM is off the
grid.
>
> An earthship can be off the grid even in a community that is not
out in the middle of nowhere. Off the grid simply means that you are
not plugged into the grid. Am I wrong?
>
> -Christine
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>
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> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

athom <[email protected]>

--- In [email protected], "Christine Kuglen"
<wanderfree@h...> wrote:
<>An earthship can be off the grid even in a community that is not
out in the middle of nowhere. Off the grid simply means that you are
not plugged into the grid. Am I wrong?<>

Christine:

Ah! I get it. Some earthships are still plugged into "the grid" and
some are not. Depends on whether the owners choose all the
alternatives available to them (photovoltaic electricity, composting
toilets, gravity fed water supply system, grey water system, gas
refrigerator, Paloma type water heating). Most all earthships
incorporate passive solar heating. Some also have active solar
systems. And some include a form of wood heat, especially around
Taos where the winters can be brutal. Most earthship owners I know
have some plugs in some grids, but usually not as many grids as the
rest of us, for sure.

Norma