The Refuge: Earthship Walkthrough With Michael Reynolds

The Refuge: Earthship Walkthrough With Michael Reynolds

We visited an Earthship and stayed overnight as you see in this post: Earthship: A Most Radically Sustainable Home

There are so many principles that are right for our times, including recycling things such as tiles and tires. My husband Mark and I have thought of building a similar home but also would like to incorporate Rammed Earth.. 

The Earthship design principles:

Earthship.com: An Earthship is a radically sustainable home made out of recycled materials. Electricity: from sun and wind. Water: from rain and snow. Sewage: sanitary treatment. Heating and Cooling: from the sun and the earth. Food: grown inside and outside the home…

I’m happy that Michael Reynolds is still active and creating. In this video, he explains a simple model of the Earthship. Something that I a happy to see.




This is the first official Refuge, finished (March 2024). The Refuge Model is the economy model, the lowest cost, simplest, and easy to build Earthship. This one is a 1,600 square foot single family home, with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms (with showers) Michael Reynolds explains the systems of the home, relative to the six main design features of the Earthship

The Six Points: Garbage Disposal, Comfortable Shelter, Electricity, Water harvesting, Sewage Treatment, Food Production