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We're Making History In Florida!

Florida’s first Earthship is being built in Manatee County. Designed to be in harmony with the environment and entirely self sufficient, this sustainable structure uses recycled and indigenous materials, generates its own electricity and processes its own waste with NO impact on the environment.

An Earthship is considered an Earthen home. An Earthen home is a house made of materials from around the build site, dirt mainly.

This building technique is as old as human history, but exactly suitable for today's resource-conscious and environmentally friendly building needs. Trees may be getting a bit scarce these days, but there's no shortage of dirt, the main component of earthen homes.

Earth is the ultimate form of "green" building construction, creating no environmental pollution and consuming virtually no energy.

FACT: There are 6 billion people on the planet and 3 billion of them live in Earthen structures and homes.

The science behind this low-tech construction process is fascinating and we want to share it with you.

 

Since the project began-even before ground-breaking, the Earthship Florida Project has gotten quite a bit of publicity,see IN THE NEWS for different articles and news stories.

LISTEN NOW to a podcast about this project!

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PLEASE NOTE:

Thousands of bottles and cans have already been collected-but we still need an additional 20,000 aluminum cans (the kind that are used for soda and beer), and as many glass bottles as we can get. Please help us and save all of your aluminum cans (we can not used crushed cans, although dented is ok) and glass bottles. You will be able to "see" your recycling efforts first hand!

If you have any questions, please contact Aviva at aviva@earthshipfloridaproject.com

Earthship Facts

  • Earthships are made out of recycled materials, such as tires and soda cans.

  • Earthships catch water from the sky and use it up to four times.

  • Water is heated from either the sun or by natural gas, but they can have city/county water as a backup water supply.

  • Earthships produce their own electricity, but can have multiple energy sources such as solar and wind-generated energy. The energy is stored in batteries and supplied to electrical outlets in the home.

  • Earthships contain and reuse all household sewage in indoor and outdoor treatment cells. The waste is used for food production and in landscaping.

  • Earthship toilets flush with greywater that does not smell.

  • Because of the way they’re built, Earthships maintain comfortable temperatures in any climate.

— Information obtained from Earthship Biotecture.