Earthship Homes
The benefits to having an Earthship home are to have a cost effective living environment and an environmentally friendly form of development. The main design principles to an Earthship home are as follows. First, the home is manufactured with natural and recycled materials, this is very cost efficient and environmentally friendly. Second, you will need thermal/solar heating and cooling, which means your heating system is the sun and for cooling, the homes exterior keeps it cool. This is very cost effective way to heat and cool your home. Thirdly, solar and/or wind will provide you with power using either a solar panel and/or a wind power system. This will power your homes lights, appliances, accessories etc. Forth off, the home will need to have a contained sewage treatment meaning, the home reuses sewage water after it is filtered. The water is odorless and is just reused for the toilet system. Lastly, you will need water harvesting and food production, you can achieve this by having a gutter and filtration system to catch rain water and melted snow and food is harvested the traditional way planted and grown. Earth Homes are a “almost free” way of living, but these homes are hard to get approved by municipalities for reasons they themselves don’t know.
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