Ontario couple built this eco-friendly earthship home for $70,000
Ontario couple built this eco-friendly earthship home for $70,000
Craig Cook gave CBC News a tour of the eco-friendly earthship home he and his wife Connie built out of tires, bottles, cans, dirt and concrete. To read more: www.cbc.ca/1.3623410
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The soda cans also create dead air space providing insulation.
Can you please make another video and show us your Earthship home today
Bravo 👏🏽 living the dream life! 🙌🏽
Let’s do some math here, labor at $30 per hour, that’s 30,000 hours of labour, so for one person that’s working for over 8 years doing 10 hour days, with no time off. Not for me, rammed earth is cheaper, faster, looks better.
this is great
True living with MotherEarth♥️✨️
I gotta meet this man. Need tips
Amazing!!
Dużo rodzin może zamieszkać w takim domu .
My goodness why are the people that own these things so weird. I love the house and what it represents.
Super!
I hear the tires will effect your air quality and breath in chemicals
I love this house and its philosophy!
70,000 is still a lot
Dear Santa…
I am moving in 🙂
930000 in labour 70000 in materials. Million dollars for what
Luxury sprey trade , if need time , customer take it , it so beautiful
absolutely gorgeous….
a beautiful home with so many positive eco choices too.
All Americans: They believe that the banana plant is a tree. That is not correct.
Wow beautiful! Do you think a home like this would work in Quebec where our Winters are crazy cold?
Beauty!! I wanna do this. Hard to imagine for 70g
I’m going to make a earth home then I wouldn’t feel so bad in my StarCraft inboard boat.
I wonder what other goodies he has behind the camera.
Well played that how we should live in generations now👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
what county is this house in?
Finally an example in the north!
Great work… I find it tough to believe the constant 72 degrees in an Ontario winter without the use of any solid fuel or gas burner. However you did not specify weather that temperature was achieved solely off geo thermal or with the aid of the wood burning stove/propane burner. Any clarification on this greatly appreciated.
So you think sir about utilizing AC units that produce 50 to 250 gallons of water due to the condensing so running it from 9:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. versus during the day when there’s no humidity solar panels that produce condensation even though there’s no humidity in there and utilizing your batteries and putting them in a water trough meaning the batteries are in 3/4 submerged in water which keeps them at a cool 68 to 72°. Therefore there is no heat exchange and where on the battery and for the AC to produce that much water it’d have to be on a humid day but two weeks at 150 gallons an hour you have 50,000 gallons in reserve very quickly
I have seen more edibles growing on an apt. balcony, than you have growing In a structure built to grow food!!!!!
Thank you!!❤️
How “eco friendly” and “naturally sustainable” is concrete, the potential to run out of water, rubber tires and bricks (as rubber naturally breaks down it dirt, releasing harmful gases), plastic cooling tubes, etc.? Everyone that I knew that purchased one greatly regretted their purchases, and had to take up to a 100k loss, in order to sell it. No thanks. I can build a nice, eco friendly home for half the cost elsewhere.
The bad thing this homes are considered dump sites as per building codes in some cites. Sow this would work out in the desert or away frome any cities
Why don’t people make better use of the growing space. The vast majority of these homes are planted with ornamentals, with the exception of a banana tree.
wow
I need to build one . I want to build pods !
ThankYou so Much but after 5 yrs any changes that u would have done?
This is true "Sustainable living"…NOT the Govt’s version of it -> we should ALL live like this!
I love this house! I have to build one.❤️✌🏻🌍☀️
The ruling ghouls don’t want these all over the world. Guess why. ❤😂🎉
Love all the windows and how the light reflects in the glass inside the home.
👌👍👌
930,000 in labor. Well said. You earned this home Congratulations!
Mieszkają jak na wysypisku śmieci.
Đôiis với vùng có khí hậu khô hạn hoặc lạnh lẽo thì kiểu nhà này thật là lý tưởng
Price of house or condo in Ontario is up to $1million. $70,000 that is like Boxing day deal. Wowsa. Enlist me.
Ingenious, eco efficient and pretty. Good on U .
I,d want a wall in the bath tho.
Which is you Facebook
looks like a typical earth ship house. Unfinished walls with cans and bottles and old tires sticking out of the walls. Almost a million in labor to build this. Try and sell it. Can’t live on a few potato’s and a bananas. The problem is that people think this is a great idea. go and try and build one.
All those petro-chemicals from the tires leaching into the earth and the house, yeah, real "eco-friendly". Then they use the interior garden space for a vanity project instead of food. These people are just liberal posers.