The goal of this web page is to network Canadian Earthship projects so that we can learn from one another and help to find volunteers for these projects. We will have weekend workshops in the summer of 2020. collingwoodearthship.wordpress.com I went through 4 different Architects
Sweet taste of heritage tomatoes at Mohawk Seedkeepers Earthship. By Donna Duric Writer Who knew that so many tomato varieties existed and that they could all taste so different? If you did your gardening right, tomato season is here and there are dozens of varieties to choose from. Some are good in salads, some
St. Albert Today - In an effort to escape the rat race, the Stolz family moved to rural B.C. and built their own sustainable, solar-powered home. For the past 10 months, the Stolz family has been waking up to earthen floors and cob walls in their hand-built sustainable home near Golden, B.C. They don’t
How We Built Our Earthship, An Off-Grid Prairie Home… When you tell people you’re building an Earthship, there are two stock responses. First there are the believers. These are the people who’ve watched Garbage Warrior, twice. They want to talk design and permits and timelines. They’re into it. The other stock response is an incredulous
Pippa Creery and Bob Kloske plan on living off the grid in Ship Harbour Earthship Pippa Creery and Bob Kloske's retirement involves a lot of dirt. The couple are building an earth berm tire house, which they hope will be a little piece of paradise in Ship Harbour, on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. The
Pair hard at work building earthship-inspired home with used tires, bottles, more. After a lifetime’s worth of employment, deciding on just what your retirement will look like is a big decision. It was for Tony and Susan Doig. Do you move to Vancouver Island or the Okanagan? Closer or farther away from family? Will
If you like the idea of living in tiny houses off the grid or if you’re an avid supporter of the tiny house movement, then you’ll love everything about earthship designs. One mini house at the Terra Perma Eco Resort in Quebec is structured to look and function much like a traditional earthship. Earthships
Local volunteers hard at work on building a self-sustaining greenhouse out of donated and up-cycled materials. There’s a building northwest of Edmonton which, as it stands, might not look like much, but it’s the groundwork for some lofty green goals. Right now, it looks like piles of excavated dirt and some earth-filled tires stacked
Indigenous communities are rejecting non-indigenous energy projects in favour of community-led sustainable energy infrastructure. The switch has led to some improvements in economic and social development as well as capacity-building for self-governance, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. "Many indigenous communities decided to take back control of their own energy production
Biotecture Planet Earth cooperated with Earthship Biotecture to build an off-grid, self-sustained home for a family living on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, a First Nations Reservation in Canada, between 18 to 31 July of 2016. This particular family, headed by Flower, was in desperate need of a healthier and more cost effective shelter,
