OFF GRID in a DESERT - Earthship Biotecture
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Living off the grid in a luxury earth home made out of trash? Yes, it's possible!
This is the Earthship Biotecture in Taos, New Mexico. A community of over 70 homes or 'vessels' that are completely off the grid. They get their energy from the sun via solar panels, or wind, they get their water from the rain and snow melt and recycle it four times, they generate their own heat, and can even grow their own food all within the walls of the home.
These are all located in the desert, with full off the grid functionality and sustainable living in mind. For those who aspire to live greener, these off the grid homes are a sight to behold. Check out the full Earthship tour of THREE of these homes.
What is it like to live in one? I spent 96 hours living in two of the earthships including the Phoenix Earthship, to find out. Read about it here: www.bemytravelmuse.com/earths...
Rent Kirsten's Earthship: www.airbnb.com/rooms/27131684
Learn from Kirsten on how to build one yourself: www.ecolivingmatrix.com/
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What is an Earthship? 0:00
Earthship Mesa: 01:22
Living/Cooking in an earthship: 3:42
Earthship visitor's center/how it works: 05:12
Second Earthship - Phoenix tour: 10:27
THIRD Earthship tour: 15:41
Pros and Cons: 16:42
Wife and i went out in sept of 2021. We stayed in one of the very early ones closer to town. As a general contractor I was so interested in the thoughtfulness of the design. We also drove up into the mountains to see another of Kirsten’s earthships.
Now i want to grab my acoustic guitar and head back out. 😁
Btw…..some of their newer designs keeps the greenhouse as an outer layer along the glass, with a secondary wall of glass that kind of separate the two. This would help minimize pests in the living area
I am building my own earth ship soon! I am so excited!
I’ve just joined a community that plans to build an Earthship in a desert area. I’m building my knowledge base and this video was very informative! Thank you!
This is so timely. My wife and I currently have 16 acres in northern CA that we're preparing to develop to make as sustainable and as fire resistant as possible, until we can retire to our 160 acres in AZ in 11 more years. I've been studying sustainability and alternative building practices for 25+ years and this is where those two worlds become one.
Thank you for this great video!
Oh wow that sounds absolutely awesome. I wish you both the best!
I am interested in living in an eco-friendly community. Owning an Earthship has always been a dream of mine. You're very lucky to have all that land.
I live in NorCal and am hoping to aquire some land to build an earthen house...in case you wanted to sell half an acre at some point. I'm not sure if there's a way to contact people directly on youtube, sorry for the public inquiry.
That’s the coolest fireplace I’ve ever seen 😳
I’d have to agree!
As a plumber in NYC I often think how and what it might look like here. Principles are universal , and we handle waste water in a good way , but we have started so far behind the curve that catching up looks monumental. Love the buildings though. The man says he can build them anywhere. Waiting in New York. Lol
Hey, I am a cat lady, and I would definitely supply myself with plenty of cats in the Earthship of my dreams! Out the two Earthships you stayed in, the second one was my favorite! I am into mixing home with jungle, which reminds me so much of my homeland. Earthships are awesome! I would like to build one one day. 🌎🌳🌴🎋🏡😄
It was a feast for the eyes for sure!
Earthships seem like a great environment to have a kitty in!
I have kitties also, and my first thought is that they'd LOVE to use the soil in there as a litter box, so it would be important to figure out a way to protect the soil (maybe a raised wire grid?).
@@kamwickw933 the cat poo and pee would be good for the plants.
How amazing, it seems like it's a kind of spiritual experience to stay in one of those places and be a part of that community.
Definitely. I hope more people get to experience this and that the idea spreads!
Thanks for the video. I have stayed in the 3rd earthship you have showed for a night a few years ago. It inspired me to add earthship features to my own home. I am 100% on rain water and solar now. I am adding an earthship style greenhouse to the south side of my house as I write this. I also use tires, cans and bottles and will recycle my grey water and grow plants inside. The greenhouse will act as a heater during sunny winter days as well and will help me to reduce my heating demand. I think, almost any home can be retrofitted with some of the earhship features and reduce the demand for energy and valuable resources.
wow that's amazing. If all of our houses could reuse the grey water like they do it would make such a difference. I wish that was an easy fix.
That's a great idea. I have a south facing cottage and could definitely add a small greenhouse to the side of the house, install grey water and water catchment system.
Earthships really are an awesome concept that is just recently being discovered by millions of earth-loving people.
There is an Earthship academy located there by the visitor center. I stayed in a smaller Earthship for the month that I attended their classes. It was an eye-opening experience, to be sure.
The absence of utility bills is what caught my attention. The independence from outside control and custodial incompetence is what keeps my attention.
I really like the idea of being in charge of my own water supply and my power production.
I really like that too. And why not do it? It’s so logical
Thank You for allowing us to see your Home. What an Fantastic idea, using all of our trash to build your home, I hope Mankind is going to learn a lesson here, instead of destroying trees, using trash! Using what is available for Free from the Sun.
Beautiful Earthships! They work best in dryer climates. Many years ago I helped build one in Virginia and even with the waterproofing that was done, water would still get in.
Oh yeah? Built with the tires and everything? I've heard underground houses have issues in wetter climates but wasn't sure about this method.
Trial and error is what brings evolution... failure becomes success if you don’t quit and keep trying
The main advantage of desert country is the more consistent solar heat. If your earthship leaks, somebody failed to account for the lay of the land and didn't provide for proper drainage. We know how to build basements and root cellars that stay dry.
@@Bemytravelmuse the special soil in santa rosa co florida is called excessively drained so it can do this. the building codes consist of paying off the commish, hrdly any rules at all.
Thanks so much for this video! I had NO idea these existed, and it's helpful for me in so many ways. I want to visit these earthships but I also want to learn how to make hybrid earthships in my own homes. Plus, as a writer, I know for sure this will make its way into one of my stories so I can share it with others.
You should go visit! there are a bunch you can rent to check out :)
@@Bemytravelmuse Oh I definitely plan on it! And part of me is wondering if I can count it as a research/creative retreat business deduction haha.
If you're building something new - preferably on an old spot - there are a lot of things you can build in, whether you're close-enough in to be on the grid or not.
@@harrymills2770 That's good to know! I think, to start, I'll be trying to do something more hybrid instead of building something new, but it's quite a long way away for me.
This takes recycling to a another level 💯 So much “Respect” and “Admiration” for her builds. Every build is “Spectacular” I could live in any one of them but my favorite is the 2 bedroom with all the magnificent touches and the animal’s so much fun 💯🌟💜🌟💯
If there was a "sexy" equivalent, the Phoenix would definitely be it. 😁
I will admit, I am not much of an environmentalist. Like, I think we need to maintain our environment for our own benefit and not pollute it to the point that it's unusable, but I'm really not the type to be super emotionally invested in it, I'm not about that all natural life, and I don't get that spiritual connection with nature or whatever.
That being said, I have always adored Earthships. I love the architecture, I love the challenge of making things out of what you happen to have around you, I love the resourcefulness and cleverness of the people who make them, I love the idea of making my own house in a free-form style that fits my wants and needs, I love the self-sufficiency aspect, and so on. I must have spent weeks of my life (if you take the sum total of all the time I've spent) researching techniques and trying to think up new and better implementations and looking into building codes, land prices, watersheds, etc... all so that I can make one some day.
I think the biggest thing I want to add to the Earthship ethos is more tech. I want to take the efficiency aspect and automate it. I want the greenhouse to regulate its own climate. I want to take a lot of the negatives and extra work that gets brought up when people talk about off-grid living and figure out how to make as many of those things as possible just run themselves. I want to take the free-form architecture and integrate more quality of life improvements that I think is lacking in a lot of current American houses due to restrictive building codes, off-the-shelf/ standardized house blueprints, ease of manufacrure, and a lack of imagination in a lot of housing developers due to a lot of protectionist laws and NIMBY-ist attitudes making it so that they don't really have to have any.
Mostly, I just want to figure out how to make this concept less daunting for more people. Lower the barrier to entry, make it so that more people can live like that. Because right now the sad truth is that it's too much work, time, and/ or money for most people to seriously consider.
Honestly, since Starlink got announced, I've seriously thought about just going back to school and getting a degree that would let me work from home so that I could build my own Earthship in an area with no building codes without having a 3 hour commute. Starlink (and some similar competitors that are working on the same thing, Starlink just got there first :P) along with improvements in solar panels and lithium batteries are making this lifestyle an increasingly viable option for a tech nerd like me.
That sounds freaking awesome and I fully support your dream! Lmk when you build and how you improve upon it!
Thanks for sharing, My dream is to live in an Earthship/Cob Home❤️😻🙏🏾
My pleasure!
@@Bemytravelmuse ❤️😻🙏🏾
"Living in harmony with your environment"... that's the key right there. If every resident of the planet strove for that one simple goal, imagine where we'd be. The inherent selfishness and pride of humanity will never let that happen... but it's nice to dream about it. I've stayed a couple nights in an earthship myself, and I love them. The thing that stood out the most to me about the one we stayed in was how quiet it was. Even during the day with traffic and people, and the winds of Taos, it was absolutely still quiet inside. The walk in shower was pretty cool, too.
I love earthships and yes, I realize that you may have to deal with unwanted creatures but that's just part of life. The farther you go out by yourself, the more of an issue creatures become. Peanut oil in a Pyrex bowl is a fantastic natural killer of mice btw.
We humans are quick to KILL what we don't like...Creatures are a part of life & nature & we are imposing on THEIR environment... A HIGHER PERSPECTIVE would be to question how we can ALL LIVE TOGETHER HARMONIOUSLY and not just KILL other species. Who's to say that we humans are better and more valuable than ANY other life source... be they plants, animal being, or insects or "rodents" There is an AMAZING amount of wisdom & intelligence in other life forms that we just don't recognize or value and we humans are ARROGANT and KILL other species of life plants (destroying forests, creating GMO'S) destroying oceans & land with our irresponsible pollution/refuse that's NOT being recycled or better yet, NEVER BEING MADE to begin with since they are impractical and a burden on our planet Here's some food for thought.... Based on human behavior in the last CENTURY alone... humans are destroying planet earth and making it UNINHABITABLE... in fact, there are some scientists that predict that HUMANITY could be EXTINCT in as little as 10 years... Humans have truly Fxxked up the world and mother earth WON"T tolerate us.... and WILL destroy us since we, humans do NOT honor mother earth & all of life's creations... and going to another planet would be no different.... destroy it and abuse it.......... Will humans EVER become RESPECTFUL of all of life and learn to live WITH nature instead of trying to CONTROL it......... if we DON'T....... guess what... we'll be in for some major life threatening lessons to FORCE us to learn.............. We're quickly running out of time and MOST people are doing NOTHING to help our planet... just look around in a supermarket as they stuff your foods in 20-30 plastic bags that become trash or go to Costco and watch people with carts stacked with SINGLE BOTTLES of water........... it's CRAZY and truly unsustainable........ IT'S NOW......... our time of reckoning. PEACE to those who ARE working WITH Mother Nature...
@@heyitsrick01 mice have a purpose; outside the home and food source. I'm sure you've heard of the bubonic plague. Will the earth end in 10 years? No, unless we blow ourselves up. Could we do much more to be sustainable? Yes. Definitely. And finally, humans have dominion over everything on earth because we have reason and intellect unlike any other creature had on earth. Can we learn from them? Yes. But we are not the same. We need to better stewards of the earth though.
We have an earthship and catch and release our mice. We are up to # 15 this year.
Cats help too
Orange kitties are excellent mousers! ;)
😭 oh my goodness, I have seen the Phenix Earthship many times (its my favorite one) but your emotional reaction to seeing it for the first time had me tearing up with you. It truly is an amazing structure and it’s a beautiful example of what you can live in when you work with nature instead of concurring it! 🙏🏻
Cheers
Aww so glad you felt like you were there too!
those houses are pure human art 100% original . and of course practical in today's world
Yes considering building one.
I actually stayed at one of the Earthship's close to that one, It was pretty flippin cool. I'm glad you guys had a great time.
Great video. I love the way you show how beautiful an Earthship can be. You're only limited by your imagination. As far as the mouse goes, I've seen mice in every type of building in every type of environment. Mice are universal. There is no such thing as a mouse proof house.
That is probably true.
I definitely could live forever in an earth ship but am now in my older years would be hard to do the labor! And your comment about animals coming in, or a mouse…. Mice come into regular houses, and spiders and whatever is indigenous to your area. But I loved loved your video and have been inside and toured the earth ships in Taos a few years ago! I think it’s incredible to be able to be so self sufficient and I’m just fascinated with them! Thank you for your video tour! It was fun!
This was so cool! Now I want to back to NM! You definitely saw way more cool stuff than I did in NM!!!
You should!
Great Tour!!! Thanks..
That would be wonderful, always want to do something like an earthship off grid.
That place looks great!
Definitely inspiring! I would love an earthship!
WOW WOW WOW .....that second one is so cool ........i wanna live with indoor gardens also ,,,,,so cool
In a heartbeat actually❤
I'm in love!! 💕💕💕💕
Lovely tour thanks. Earth integrated design is the way to go. This will be my design principle for the next house I build.
watching this eating some genetically modified pizza living in an apartment with central heating next to windows with paper thin walls....... still felling blessed though.
I think it’s about what suits you, where your perception is and what footprint you leave behind.
What I thought was cool was how the house is made to suit/support you and your needs.
The future is the new earth and I am all in🤩✊🏿
Infinite thank you.
I had no idea there would be homes like these! It’s really interesting and you always nail it in your videos. I’m not quite sure I could live in one of these houses, but I’d definitely would like to rent one for a couple nights.
Thank you for all you do!
Aw thank you so much for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed it
Hi and wow that’s awesome. I heard about Earth ships a few years ago but never really saw one. Thanks for sharing and letting us see inside. They’re amazing.
Thanks for watching!
Hey Kristin. I liked the first one. I would love to stay there for a few days. I honestly don't think I could live in one as a home but agree with you that we need to make our actual homes more energy efficient and push for construction of homes made of recyclable materials and more solar power friendly. ☺️
Yeah I feel like there’s so much we could learn even if we took bits and pieces of this to apply to our own homes and lives
I sooooo wanted to thumb up this vid.
I adore everything about earthships!!
Very cool I always was interested in this and yes I think with a few tweaks I could live there for sure 👍 nice video
Glad you liked it! I really think I could do this too
Yes! Bring! It! On!
I will be moving to the Taos Plateau soon and while I’m not building an Earthship I will be incorporating some of the concepts into a more conventional structure. Thanks for doing this video.
Thanks for all the information!
You bet!
I would 100% would live there forever
So beautiful 💕💕💕
Thank you for sharing. Great job on your video.
My pleasure!
God bless you and your family
Your adventures are great and inspiring!! Subbed.
I'm going to snowdonia Wales for a 5 day hiking trip soon and your journeys are really getting me in the mood for high adventure!
Have a great week!
Yay that’s awesome! I haven’t heard of that area lmk how you like it!
Yes I would like to live this way
I'm looking into sound vibration to compact sand and reduce the labour by more than half. Liquefaction type tech.
This is so cool just found this page. I've been in an earthship building that has a restaurant and shop called Arcosanti it's in AZ. Very cool place and plan on visiting again.
Where in AZ is it? I’m from AZ too
This is a really nice and honest video about your experience in a house like this. I plan to build something like it or of a better design in the future and this is cool to see how it is to live in this type of home!
Yes I’m ready
EPIC !!!
awesome video, much love! I fully intend on building one for sure
Highest blessings!!
Sweet I hope you do it!
@@Bemytravelmuse aye! pics and video or it didn't happen
I absolutely could live like this!
Most dyefinately it would be an adjustment as a city girl, but I could so get used to being self reliant! All I can say is WOW!!!
Ok I love Earthships. I stayed for a week 2 years ago and will be going back in for a week in September. I just need to correct you on something. It is not totally solar. The fridge, stove and dryer is on propane. Those items would drain the solar bank to much. Other than that, you did a very well video.. Enjoy the peace I always do
I didn't even know it had a dryer! I guess it would be hard to use it as a guesthouse without that.
💚💚love this
What i wouldn't give ... God bless you
I'm in the process of building an Earthship build project in snowflake Arizona.
Yay! I live like a block away from Cafe Phoenix, in Arcata with my wife. Cheers
Great spot!
Hey i'm in Humboldt. pretty cool.
I like the idea of interior plants on the left and right with elevated floor level through the threshold while stepping down several steps to high ceilings. Maybe even wn elevated fenced yard
I totally agree!
I give thanks for the synchronicities!! 🙏. #Swooning
🥰🥰🥰🥰
I wish we could build one of these here in MI, these are like dream homes to me.
I would love a Earthship! Northern Cali myself ready to move to Oregon and would love to a build earthship.
So amazing. I’ve heard of these and know a bit about them due to another woman Gabrielle Pelicci who I follow. She is actually building them now and has changed her whole lifestyle to live more in tune with nature. I could definitely live in one of these but not in the desert. I need a ocean nearby. Please do more of these type vids. I’m so happy you spent time there and was exposed to the ingenuity of what we humans are capable of once we wake up and care about planet earth. Xoxo Kristen Thank u
I'm definitely focusing on these unique stays! Glad you like it!
I’m going, be watching for
Bob’s Cobs
Great video. I’ve been wanting to see inside the phoenix. I could 100% live in a house like that and hope to one day
Thank you and yes it'd be a dream!
I absolutely love your video👍🏼👍🏼 I just bought my own land in Near the Continental Divide NM. Hoping sooner than later I will have a soul tribe to help me build my Earth home. until then, I just drive around collecting supplies. I Can't wait to share my video of my Vessel someday! 💚✌🏽🌞/🙏🏽🌍✌🏽
I wanna go there now!
these really re-connect people with the planet and reminds us how technical nature Is
Aaaahhhhh! You mentioned Humboldt! My home! And then you're staying in an earthship in Taos! My dream location! hahahaha
I love Humboldt!
One day I will build my own earthship
Yes I could live in the Earthship and you know my sister asked me a question and this is what I'd offer her also along with my brothers
I would love to live like that.
I'd like to go there..it sounds like a great place to live... I'd really love to live off grid
most houses can add a rain water catch system and a grey water system.
I live in a passive house, weich is still far away from an earth ship.
It uses sustainable building materials like wood and sheep wool, has no heating but draws its energy from sun and the people who live in there.
I hadn't heard of a passive house before. Interesting!
@@Bemytravelmuse Check it out - I am pretty sure you’ll find it interesting 👍
These are so aesthetically unique and beautiful. Their designs remind me of that episode of Xena: Warrior Princess called "Married with Fishsticks" where Gabrielle is married to Joxer and they live in an "underwater" home... there are a lot of similar features (it helps that that's my favorite episode, too, due to the fantastical world and aesthetics)!
My favorite show growing up
@@janetazthehomesteader1966 Yes! i'm still searching the internet to see where i can watch it!
End of the video
What you talking about earth sand oh my god your voice is so sweet❤😊🌹
Your looks, your talking style it's really mind blowing God bless you 🙏finally you are my crush😍
Well I like you too you seem like a nice person I'm only 59 years old and I'm pretty sure you're not 59 but I love Taos New Mexico
I could live like this Earth ship house awesome my hope is to make this reality soon
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You need to be more spiritual than not to thrive in this amazing home...my absolute dream home.
You had me at the indoor garden - It Iike an oId star wars movie from 1970's . Wat's Iuke cookin tonigt?
Space pIants!!
Im about to do that in Michigan. 100% off grid. Looking at properties right now. I was hoping you went more into detail about the water recycling 🤷🏼♂️
Great video. We are looking into staying there. You’re right, her place looks to be booked out over a year. Are all of the earth ships rented through Airbnb?
No! Try booking the west wing of the Phoenix directly through the earthship biotecture website. It's much smaller but you can still get the chance to experience it. And you might get lucky and have friendly neighbors. When I saw my neighbors who rented that part of it exploring the outside I invited them to come in and see the side of it that I had rented too. It was awesome, we ended up having a bonfire together that night! You can see that at the end of the video :)
My wife and I were just about to start building an earthbag house and we discovered the laws changed and we're screwed. I suspect we will be moving there and building one too. Those have been around a lot longer than earthbag and I'm 68 we're moving pretty soon. I will now finish my permaculture property layout and harvest the cherry and oak and pine on my property. My wood will be brought up there.
With you, easily.
My dream! I've been out there too and love almost everything about Earthships except pounding tires haha. All good things take work but I have a bad back :/
Duuuude the tire pounding. That seems so rough.
Have just been gorging on earthship videos- thanks for yours. Off grid living in one of these like an encounter model is my dream and is almost a necessity these days due the continued instability in the world. Paying 500 bucks a year in property tax for one of these and land is a no brainer- plus no utilities. Just gotta have the upfront cash, or good friends with knowledge to help (that's the trick). Someday...sigh. Thanks again.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Can't wait to see more homes build this way but without costing the borrow so much. We are expected to help with global warming but then asked to pay ton for the solution...
Now that I am older and have a disability I would not want to live in an Earthship, too much work. If I were a bit younger and able bodied I would love to build my own taking design ideas from several and adding the one thing each of these is missing, a Biogas Digester to convert poop and kitchen cuttings into methane for cooking. If there is more gas available it could be used for heating water, or a nice nighttime gas lantern built into the home. The ground heat/cooling is definitely something I would have with a chimney that would help draw air ouf the home to create natural circulation. I would want to incorporate ideas from a Passivhaus. I would also plan 20-30 years down the road when the panels stop working to have oil producing plants for lighting. I'll end it here.
I've heard about that! Such a genius invention
Yes! I could live like that. I would love to live like that. I dream of it, I have no real hope of it. But wouldn't it be nice if life had a little surprise for all of us, that this is possible and to anyone, and now. I would love for my grandkids to have a world they could live in. My heart bleeds for their uncertain future!
Our next house ( in about 1 year ) is going to be an earthship in Washington, but it will have a grid-tie in just in case we might need a little more power..
The Earthship is amazing but I really, really love the pants the pretty lady is wearing! Sun and moon black pants! I've got to have a pair! May I be so bold as to ask where you got them?
They don't have this exact pattern anymore but pretty much everything I wear is from them! blackmilkclothing.com/shop/bottom/pants
Little mouse doesn't take up much space 😅 give em a name an pretend it's a mini gerbil 😂🤣
I always wondered about the bug situation
Bugs weren’t a big deal but there were A LOT of mice.
A cat or 2 would help with unwanted pests. 🤣 Solid screening all openings too. I LOVE that Phoenix design with the fireplace and waterfall. I would do a screened in atrium for the birds though and have more for cats. I would love to be able to do something like that, but have always been happy camping qnd more in nature and am used to going without, even been homeless living in campers in all sorts of weather. I guess you never know for sure about long-term unless you try it though. I would think it a good option for people who are physically able to do the work themselves for sure. A lot of homeless people would think they died and went to heaven! I love the self sustainability of the earthship homes, that's for sure.
My friend's cats bring her dead rats and lizards as "gift" all the time, I am not sure how much I'd appreciate such gifts, hehe! Earthships require a lot of maintenance for sure, but I think it's totally worth it.
What’s funny is that when you book the Phoenix they just say no dogs but nothing about cats. So I wonder if they are cool with people bringing their cats.
I'd be worried about the bugs. Mesquitos, ants, scorpions bothering me 24/7.
Growing my own food inside the house sounds ingenious.
No elect/gas/water bill!!! 😎