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The Transformation of our Urban Home
In August 2008, my wife Michelle and I returned to Calgary, Canada, after spending one year travelling abroad in search of sustainability solutions. With backgrounds in mechanical engineering, our “sabbatical” started off in Denmark – we were drawn there by the lure of technological solutions to energy issues. After several months of volunteering and filling our brains with information (wind energy, solar applications, passive buildings, biogas, plant oil engines... and more) we ended up back in North America prepared to explore the U.S. and Mexico in our plant-oil powered Westfalia.
 
January 15, 2010
How to Build an Earthship - Our Adventure in New Mexico

Throughout the last year Michelle and I have been searching for green building methods that use little to know grid energy for space conditioning and electrification. So far we have seen a straw bale house, and underground concrete building, adobe brick and Michelle has extensively studied the envelope of the passive haus standard in Germany. All of them provided various pros and cons and everyone it seems has an opinion on the subject which we have discovered can vary from the logical to the insane. While we were in Teotiucan I was surfing the net and came across the Earthship website where I discovered a week-end seminar on Earthship construction. An Earthship is the brainchild of the eccentric...

June 23, 2008
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