Earthships + Summer Rooftop Party
Event Details
| Date & Time | Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm |
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| Host | Board of Change & Recollective |
| Region | Vancouver |
| Location | Recollective 5 West Pender Street, Unit 109 Vancouver, BC Google Map |
| Register | http://boardofchangesummerparty.eventbrite.com |
Join us for this fascinating presentation followed by some summertime frolic at the Board of Change and Recollective Summer Rooftop Party, featuring Kirsten Jacobsen, Education Director, Earthship Biotecture.
While most of North America remains addicted to home building technologies that are expensive to build, rely on external heat, water and sewage services and on an endless supply of oil, gas and electricity, earthships have discarded obsolete models of residential construction and have taken a completely new approach to homebuilding.
Space is limited: RSVP at http://boardofchangesummerparty.eventbrite.com
What is an Earthship?
Earthships are fully self-sufficient homes made of natural and recycled materials. The structural and thermal building blocks are used tires rammed with dirt. They heat and cool themselves naturally without consuming fossil fuels. They produce their own electric power with solar panels and wind turbines. They collect water from rain and snow melt and use it four times. Earthships grow a significant portion of food for their residents. These homes are autonomous, free of municipal utility wires, pipes and bills. Once complete the are virtually carbon zero. In short, an earthship is a home that provides people with heating, cooling, water, and sewage processing through intelligent, innovative, and inexpensive design.
Earthships can be adapted to any climate and have been built in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Jamaica, Bonaire, Scotland, England, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Spain and Japan. Most recently, an Earthship earthquake relief project was started in Port au Prince Haiti. Also, Earthship Biotecture will be starting a project this August in the interior of BC.
Why Are Earthships Only Now Becoming Popular?
Architect and innovator Michael Reynolds has been evolving the technology of earthships for over thirty years. Based in northern New Mexico, he has been the driving force behind the construction of hundreds of earthships across the United States and around the world. From survival shelter for hurricane-ravaged villages in Asia to a 1.2 million dollar custom earthship north of Santa Fe, NM, his innovations are bringing people back to the laws of nature in designing and building their homes.
“Traditional architecture is not filling the bill for what we need for the future to live on this planet.”
-Michael Reynolds
About Kirsten Jacobsen
Kirsten Jacobsen has been building, promoting, photographing and living in off-grid solar powered Earthships for 16 years. As Education Director for Earthship Biotecture she teaches alternative building techniques such as mud plaster and reused bottle brick wall construction, lectures on Earthship solar power and water catchment systems for school groups and private seminars, acts as media representative for the company, designs educational displays focusing on Earthship design principles, helps organize international Earthship
builds and oversees the out of country training program while helping to build Earthships in Belgium, Scotland, England, Spain, France, Hawaii, Mexico and Jamaica.
She manages the popular Earthship Intern Program and selects interns from around the world to work on autonomous homes at Earthship Biotecture headquarters in Taos, New
Mexico. Her photographs of the unique and sculptural homes of the future have appeared in publications around the world, most recently in The Wall St. Journal and Green Architecture Now, published by Taschen. In 1998 she began building her own Earthship home, a journey that took eight years to complete.
EARTHSHIP BIOTECTURE
building with natural and recycled materials • solar and wind electricity • thermal/solar heating and cooling• water harvesting • contained sewage treatment • food production • communities • international projects
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