Oh dang, I haven't heard about Earthships in aaaaages
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A community to discuss solarpunk and other new and alternative urbanisms that seek to break away from our currently ecologically destructive urbanisms.
- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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How is this urban?
How much does it cost to build one?
That one was about 160,000 USD. They are pretty expensive to built.
Damn
The good part is, that a lot of it is recycled and if you have the necessary skills, then it is possible to DIY them.
I think I'd struggle to live in one so small, but I love the look of this one.
And I think they may be overstating how fire proof this particular one is. The solar panels, water heater, electrical systems, windows, and vents could still be damaged. And with the contaminants in the air, you'd probably wouldn't want to be inside that thing during a fire.
Still, the structure isn't going anywhere which is far more than can be said for 99.99% of homes. I'd love to live in one of these ans build one. But the U.S. is looking like an increasingly dangerous place to live, so I'm not about to invest 10s of thousands of dollars to make something like this happen.