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New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost

Kirsten Dirksen · 2.3M views · 2020-07-12 · 24:18

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Overview

Kirsten Dirksen tours new Earthships, homes built from tires, bottles and cans that generate their own energy, collect water and grow food. The video covers the newer, cheaper Encounter model and its passive systems.

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HN commenters recommend the channel's alternative-living videos, and this one for its look at a net-zero desert home.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2020–2026

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What people said

culi · 2026-07 · Strong recommendation

Almost all the videos on this channel are fascinating btw. Greenhouses enveloping entire houses/villages[0][1] in northern Europe to earthships[2] to someone growing citrus in Nebraska using trenches[3] to entire villages underground in Australia[4] [0] [LINK] [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO] [3] [LINK] [4] [LINK] I'd also recommend the channels FLORB and Happen Films though they're admittedly a little corny. [LINK] [LINK] Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't recently did a tour of an interesting alt home as well. [LINK]

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somethoughts · 2022-02 · Recommendation

Kinda of reminds me of this fun video about a net zero desert house(/commune?). They proposed/demostrated a cycle that is basically Shower -> indoor plants -> toilet -> outdoor plants New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost [VIDEO]

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205guy · 2020-08 · Recommendation

Kirsten Dirksen Seems to be finding and documenting them on her YouTube channel: [LINK] Many are just individuals in alternative living situations or creative housing, but some are communities or -in-the-making: Earthship community in Taos New Mexico: [VIDEO] Back-to-the-traditional-village in Portugal: [LINK]

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