tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post8000829473162096917..comments2024-03-20T11:36:53.907+00:00Comments on Restoring Mayberry: EarthshipsBrian Kallerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11082602126850605083noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-67418040212522990862009-02-16T11:21:00.000+00:002009-02-16T11:21:00.000+00:00Swan, Thanks for writing. I have been fascinated b...Swan, <BR/><BR/>Thanks for writing. I have been fascinated by Earthships for some time, and would like to learn more someday about making them. <BR/><BR/>I am sorry that all that interest remained on the margins for decades, but it wasn't a complete loss -- we gained a global community of people who were learning, testing new ideas and preserving old knowledge, and a great deal of our future might depend on their work.Brian Kallerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082602126850605083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-7159664129371640822009-02-15T01:12:00.000+00:002009-02-15T01:12:00.000+00:00I lived in Taos, New Mexico in the years when Mich...I lived in Taos, New Mexico in the years when Michael Reynolds was getting started with the earthships and had many friends who worked on and lived in them.<BR/><BR/>I wrote about alternative living spaces for years and the earthships were probably the most successful of all the experiments that were taking place in the 70s and 80s. Being inside them is an interesting combination of light (all the south-facing windows) and cool darkness (the back side snuggled into the earth). It is a similar feel you get in the ancient Anasazi cave dwellings. Open to the sky, close to the earth. I was in one earthship that had ponds in front of the windows with fish swimming in them that were harvested for food.<BR/><BR/>I feel like we (as a society) got sidetracked, beginning with Reagan, and that whole fiasco is coming to it's just ending and we are going to go back and pick up the thread of where we were at in the 70s with alternative energy and sustainable life styles.<BR/><BR/>It makes me sad that we've wasted so much time and done so much damage but thankfully, hopefully, we can regroup and maybe really do it right this time. <BR/><BR/>There's a train every day leaving either way . . . swan . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com