Thanks to jgizzi's earthship post, I thought it might be fun to have a thread for discussion of these unusual homes. I will try to find some good sites with examples of extreme (or maybe not so extreme anymore) homes.

I had to go to Wikipedia to remember they were the tire homes. I actually thought they were just underground. The new thread will help us keep the "fun" homes separated from the more common (and some would say "more boring") technology that is now becoming mainstream. I'll move jgizzi's post over here to get things rolling.

Darlene

I want to build an earthship. I can't beleive how many good books are out there on the subject nowadays.

Here's an Elephant House in the Philippines



http://www.google.com/search?q=elephant+...GGGL_en___PH231

WOW!!! I watched the video. I think the news lady liked it as much as the owner. He may hide his satellite dish in one of those ears. Let's keep an eye on this one...it's not done yet. I don't know what he has planned in the way of energy efficiency, etc., but he may just want an elephant house and doesn't need any of the new tech stuff. This one may make the HGTV show about unusual homes. Thanks for posting it. Can you imagine how excited his kids are over it.

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There's a really good movie that I just watched about earthships.
It's called "Garbage Warrior" and it's about an architect in New Mexico who had a dream of different types of buildings and the struggle he faced to be allowed to build them.
Worth the watch.

Still having internet trouble...your movie is on the top of my list when I get back to cable.