Earthship Biotecture Classroom #2: All About Solar Gain

Welcome to this second class all about Solar Gain. Once you understand solar gain you will understand how an earthship stays warm in winter without heating. Earthships are designed to work autonomously in virtually any climate without the need for any heating or cooling systems.

If you want to understand why Earthship homes are so popular then this is for you! Earthship Biotecture offers SO many benefits that it is hard to even know them all! Simply put, no other method or approach to sustainable building has taken sustainability to this level of perfection. An earthship functions like a finely tuned machine. It performs so well, and in so many ways, that it has redefined what a home is supposed to be.

An earthship home encounters the forces of nature, mainly the sun, rain, and wind and funnels them into your home to provide everything you need to live comfortably with almost no annual utility bills. Earthships work autonomously and provide a lifetime of heating, cooling, power, water, and even food production with almost no effort or maintenance. There is a global crisis in affordable and functional housing, as well as a cultural and community breakdown happening in most of the world. People are sucked into a lifetime of overwhelming debt to own a home and try to find security. The problem is that when you can't repay the loan, you have lost your security and just about everything you had. The knock on effects of having to live and work just to pay the bills stretches far into our culture and our zeitgeist. People desperately need a way out. With the demise of the family unit, people are more vulnerable than ever as they get older

Earthship Biotecture originated in the USA and was invented by Michael Reynolds in the early 1980's. Earthship biotecture is a solution to so many of our global problems, and has evolved to the point that it can deliver you a truly off-grid, self-sufficient and sustainable life… forever!

“Centralisation of utilities is killing us,
Decentralisation gives us a door to the future.
All of a sudden you're in charge of your power,
Nobody can shut your power off.
You're in charge of your water,
You're in charge of your sewage,
You're in charge of your life,
You own your life.
You are free!”