Saturday, April 16, 2005

Earthship Edinburgh?

Mrs Rasmussen and I have been researching sustainable buildings and such, and for a long time we thought we would like to build a straw-bale house of some sort. Until we discovered the concept of Earthships, as invented by American architect Mike Reynolds some 30 years ago. Today we went to have a look at the first UK Earthship, built next to Kinghorn Loch on Fife, close to Edinburgh.
Things are now clear: we are going to build one ourselves.
An Earthship is a self-sustainable house built from earth and waste materials like tyres and cans and glass. It is completely independent of sewage systems and is not connected to mains electricity. In very short, it is a building of the future.
So, we need volunteers to help building some time in the near future, maybe as soon as summer 2006. We just need to find a plot of land first.
Earthship Fife