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Earthship to feature on Nicaragua real estate tour
2008-04-15 22:51:00 Brooke Rundle pointed out a new You Tube video on the Nicaraguan Earthship: The Earthship will be featured on our Green Real Estate tours planned for later this year. We’re going to focus exclusively on environmentally conscious and socially responsible real estate developments. Tour participants will get an inside track on everything from sustainable housing communities constructed of all recycled materials to off-grid hacienda ...
Watch the Earthship grow - day 32
2008-03-07 19:49:00 Today we started compacting the floors. It looks like we’ll be laying tiles, but we have received various ideas from local builders on the best method for laying them. Ideas range from concrete slabs to laying them into the clay earth to everything in between. There’s no rush, so we’ll be moving on to other areas of ...
Nicaragua real estate - Day 31 in the life of an Earthship building project
2008-03-06 20:43:00 New hands on the worksite today. Eric and Minya are on their way from the Panama Canal to the USA via the Pan American Highway…on bicycles. We met them yesterday on the way to Managua when we stopped for Breakfast at Chepe Chu, a little truckstop café on the road between Rivas and Nandaime. After some story ...
A fleet of the best Earthship posts from around the world
2008-02-16 19:01:00 The Earthship concept may be new to Nicaragua real estate but, search around a bit, and you’ll find Earthships all over the world. They work in all climates, on most terrains, gradients or exposures, within cities as well as in remote areas, completely off-the-grid. And people are blogging about Earthships and the logic of green building. ...
Green building in Nicaragua - 29th day of the construction of an Earthship.
2008-02-05 02:48:00 The waiting game for the wood has begun. We’re not talking about that much lumber, but the complications of material acquisition in Nicaragua are becoming clearer everyday. This is all good ground work for the Earthships that will follow. And the nice thing about this green building project is that there is always plenty to ...
Nicaragua real estate - ?A work of art? emerges on Day 26 of the Earthship
2008-02-02 23:09:00 The building is beginning its transformation from a solid structure, to a work of art… Thanks to Jo, Tim, and Lauren for their extra help at the site today. Bookmark It Hide Sites
Nicaragua real estate: Day 26 in the life of a Nicaraguan Earthship
2008-02-01 22:56:00 As our road is under construction, there are very small windows of opportunity to receive materials. And everyday is an opportunity to learn. Yesterday I was promised by one fellow based out of Rivas that the sand would arrive before 7:00am, an hour and a half before the road crew arrives. I was also promised by ...
Green building - Day 23 of the construction of a Nicaraguan Earthship
2008-01-29 16:32:00 The middle dome is ready to receive it’s first coat of plaster. Inside the building, Seth has been discussing the art of adobe plaster with the local Nicaraguan crew. The plaster work is coming along well. Lot’s of busy hands all around us. Sometimes it’s hard to believe it’s been only 23 working days. Earthship, green building, ...
Day 22 of the construction of a Nicaraguan Earthship
2008-01-28 19:41:00 Monday is always a natural time to lay out goals and expectations for the week, and with the addition of Phil and Seth, two of Earthship Biotecture’s finest, we decided to set our goals high. All in all it was a decent Monday. We were able to get a skeleton of rebar up and supported for ...
Nicaragua real estate: The buzz about the Nicaraguan Earthship is building
2008-01-28 06:24:00 We’ve been keeping a daily blog on the construction of a house made out of tires which cools itself passively, creates its own power and harvests its own water. Known as an “Earthship” the house design was conceived by architect Mike Reynolds from Earthship Biotecture, in Taos, New Mexico. Ever since the construction team arrived in ...
Day 16 of the Earthship Construction ? A reflection by Dave Kniffin
2007-12-22 18:45:00 Since the conception of this project, people have asked me what we are doing here, “What is the vision?” or “What is the goal?” And at any given time, the best I can do is offer a snapshot of where we are, and where we are going. It’s an evolving dream. Still, at the base ...
Earthship construction: Day 14 and Day 15
2007-12-21 18:35:00 The building is taking shape and as hard as it is to put the project on hold for the holidays, we have made great progress. Since Monday, we have been working with a local crew of fifteen as well as three experts in sustainable building from Taos, New Mexico who have stayed to continue to ...
Earthship construction: Day 13
2007-12-20 00:09:00 The day was rainy but spirits were high. Luckily down here in Nicaragua the rain is soft and warm. Presently half of the house is harvesting water into the east cistern when it rains. This means that the oxcarts may not have to haul water for the construction of the project anymore. Part of the goal ...
Earthship construction: Day 12
2007-12-19 00:04:00 No fibers this morning. Lydia and Jo have volunteered to drive to Managua to buy fibers at the one store in the country that sells them. That drive is a minimum five hours return trip on a less than perfect road, so their efforts are appreciated even before they depart. At the job-site, the morning is ...
Earthship construction: Day 11
2007-12-17 23:46:00 Today this unique Nicaraguan real estate project entered a new phase. Of the 11 Earthship experts from Taos, New Mexico, USA, only three remain. Ted Elsasser, Justin S, and Demian Larsen have all stayed on to continue to teach the local crew. Two new locals have joined the workforce. They had been observing the work on ...
Earthship construction: Day 10
2007-12-14 23:46:00 The nightly rains caused delays in the delivery of supplies and the lack of materials were today’s limiting factor. Everyone was acutely aware that it was their last day on the site together. The majority of the Taos crew departs this weekend and, as a result, the crew seemed to push harder than ever to realize ...
Earthship construction: Day 9
2007-12-13 14:25:00 Day Nine dawns, another bright and beautiful morning in El Carrizal, Nicaragua. The Earthship crew arrives and the Nicas are already at it. They bring out all of the tools for us every morning, which is great. The building is starting to really take shape, highlighted by the main room with it’s twin arched entrance and ...
Earthship construction: Day 8
2007-12-12 14:28:00 Our inter-cultural crew continued its total dominance of all things Earthship. The twins have excelled in winning the love of the local builders as they have developed a strange pigeon language mixed with Taos slang and Nicaraguan highlander Spanish. Monkeys barked at me today as I drank a coke. The kids in the valley have been ...
Earthship construction: Day 7
2007-12-11 04:52:00 Today 25 crew members joined forces to lift and set the 22ft wide rebar birdcage roof on top of the living room. The birdcage roof was wrapped in chicken wire and wired together with hardware cloth. Rumor has it that the roof weighed over 1,000 pounds! Once the roof was raised, it was fastened to the ...
Earthship construction: Day 6
2007-12-09 03:16:00 When I arrived this morning, the oxen were already busy hauling dirt from the building site for the next Earthship which has been completely excavated. Although Saturday is usually a day off, the thirteen local workers accepted the offer to put in a half day’s worth of work. The mixer was going within a half hour ...
Earthship, Nicaragua
2007-12-08 18:56:00 I knew very little about Earthships until I visited the Earthship Nicaragua building site outside of San Juan del Sur yesterday.Dave Kniffen of Earthship Biotecture is heading up this latest project to build houses out of used tires. The plan is to have this house built in 16 days.The idea of sustainable construction is not new. But I believe it is even more important in todays world of limited and endangered almost-everythings.There are lots of very interesting people working on the project as well. It takes a very special kind of person to volunteer to work in another country in the heat to help teach others something new.The human spirit is alive and well in our world. It shows in projects like this.
Earthship construction: Day 5
2007-12-07 19:15:00 We were greeted this morning at the site by two teams of oxen pulling wagons. We have been using a back hoe to generate dirt from a nearby site, but we needed a more efficient way to get the dirt to the Earthship rather than having the back hoe trundle down with a scoop at ...
Earthship construction: Day 4
2007-12-06 17:08:00 Each day a few of the Carizal kids from the surrounding community eagerly wait at the river crossing for the construction crew to arrive holding a small collection of bottles and cans. A good portion of the crew enjoyed the local night life the night before, so morning arrived quickly for some. By 7:00 am ...
Earthship construction: Day 3
2007-12-06 04:48:00 Work started at 6:00 am when the temperature was still cool. The back-hoe was found with a flat tire which was quickly fixed. Tire pounding resumed with a sense of urgency and good camaraderie among the locals and foreigners alike. The back-hoe was busy bringing dirt from the next Earthship site, for which excavation began yesterday. Mass ...
Earthship construction: Day 2
2007-12-05 04:25:00 Today the cooling tubes arrived. Cooling tubes are usually 20 foot long galvanized metal pipes, 10″ in diameter, that are buried in the earth and enter each room through one of the first few courses of tires. They arrived just in time. We are pounding tires at a rate that requires constant back bury. The galvanized metal ...
Earthship construction: Day 1
2007-12-04 17:12:00 The crew arrived with sledgehammers, picks, shovels and tires in hand to help build Casa Llanta. This is day one of a project to build a house out of tires which cools itself passively, creates it own power and harvests its own water. Joining the American team of Earthship builders is a group of Nicaraguans ...
Can you build an Earthship in 16 days ? in Nicaragua?
2007-12-01 23:49:00 The construction team is congregating and getting ready to build an Earthship in 16 days on a beautiful Nicaraguan hillside with a view out towards the Pacific ocean. Dave Kniffen from Earthship Biotecture in Taos is leading the construction of Casa Llanta, or “House of Tires” as it is locally known. Earthships emerge from a bold vision ...
Earthship biotecture
2007-11-17 00:44:00 When I was kid I used to imagine living in a Barbapapa home. This may be close to that.If you don't know what a Barbapapa house looks like:
By: Revolving Doors
There are Earthships in France
2007-10-03 20:15:00 “Earthships have been around for some time. While some comments on our first post suggested there is something a little cult-like about the movement, they still seem to be cropping up everywhere, having now crossed the Atlantic to Brighton, UK. But the spread doesn?t end there ? reading the latest newsletter of the Permaculture Association ...
By: France travel
Life in An Earthship
2007-08-08 15:27:00 From CNET News.com: TAOS, N.M.--Imagine maintaining a steady 70 degrees in your house high in the New Mexico desert, even as out...
Earthships!
2007-05-16 19:00:00 New Consumer wrote an article recently about Michael Reynolds, a man who designs an builds “earthships”. His companies, Earthship Brighton and Earthship USA have been building these uniquely designed homes for over thirty years. Reynolds describe earthships to as “independent vessels to sail on the seas of tomorrow,” it actually is a modern, eco-friendly ... |
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