The pros and cons of this self-contained, fully sustainable home. The most fascinating part about an Earthship is the fact that you can eliminate all outside utilities. So, not only is the home ...

Once a week Rashida Ali-Campbell visits a vacant lot at 675 N. 41st St. in West Philadelphia. It’s the future site of an Earthship — a 100 percent sustainable building. Right now the lot is home to ...

There’s no need to leave our orbit to experience the essence of a spaceship. Keep your feet on the ground and live in an Earthship instead. Earthships are a building design focused on the efficient ...

TAOS, New Mexico — Old tires, crumpled cans and empty wine bottles are piling up at construction sites across the desert. A renewed purpose awaits these discarded items, which will become the building ...

Could sustainable architecture address pollution, climate change and resource depletion by helping us build self-sufficient, off-grid, housing from "waste," including vehicle tires and metal drinks ...

Approaching Earthship in Taos, New Mexico, at dusk, landscape photographer Victoria Sambunaris (featured in our Wallpaper* USA 400, a guide to creative America) began to make out the gently sloping ...

Last week three Waihekians went to Christchurch to participate in a hands-on Earthship building workshop, with "Garbage Warrior" guru Mike Reynolds from the USA. This was Reynolds' first visit to New ...

The earthship is a radical design approach for a house using recycled cans, bottles and car tyres. It operates entirely separate from the grid, generating its own electricity, water, heating, cooling ...