Earthships - America's Off-Grid Desert Community

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A video tour of the Earthship community in the New Mexico desert, where off-grid homes are built from repurposed materials such as tires. It shows how the houses are meant to supply their own heat, water and food.

HN submits it as an example of off-grid, self-sustaining home design, and cites it when off-grid or low-energy building comes up.

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@dhruval2022 · in “How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020)”
Reminds me of 'Earthship Houses' that are completely off grid, recycle their waste water to grow crops, are built using repurposed car tires and grow their own food. There is a community in New Mexico ▶ this video And even some in Canada link