Tire house earthship

In an effort to become more sustainable, green, or what have you people have started to look more at what we currently have rather then what we can have that we can make better. It seems like one …

A husband and wife have seemingly done the impossible: built a stylish self-sufficient home in the California Santa Cruz mountains for less than $10,000.

There are many creative ways to reuse and recycle bike or car tires turning them into garden decorations and artworks

Retaining walls made from recycled tires filled with dirt and covered in stucco. #shedplans

A couple on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore has an unconventional retirement project: building a home out of tires.

850 tires went into this wall to form an awesome thermal mass that kept the building cool in spite of high temperatures outside. The family spent last summer pounding earth into the interior of each tire. Since the tires are free including free delivery on flat bed trucks this is the way to go if you have lots of time and less money. The design does not quite follow the traditional U shape of the earth design but is long and flat for passive heating in the winter and a greenhouse effect for…

As talks about sustainability and building environmentally friendly homes are gaining attention, more and more people opt for alternatives like Earthship

This Cob House | Blog

Earthships are a topic that has been of interest to me for a while now. These extremist environmentally conscious homes/buildings are amazing. They are described on their website as, “Radical…