2015 earthship build in BC

Please check out the 2015 earthship build invite
at www.thecommonunityproject.wordpress.com Hazelton BC

Thanks for starting this thread Kate! Permies has been a valuable asset to us over the last 3 years in creating/ building our egalitarian community. Thank you

In tandem with our Earthship Volunteer construction camp we will be hosting several workshops including Rocket Stove/ Cob oven workshop, Permaculture Zone Design, and a 7 day Traditional timber framing course!

You Can check out our Workshop schedule here:
http://thecommonunityproject.com/2015-workshop-schedule/


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For more info on what, where, why, who of The Common Unity Project visit our website: http://thecommonunityproject.com/our-vision/

Here is a link to the official Volunteer invite: https://thecommonunityproject.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/tcup-web-invite1.pdf

I'd be very interested to hear about the earthship performance in that climate, it's somewhat similar to my own with short winter days which I presume are going to be thickly clouded more often than not.

Where the two differ- of course- is the 15ish degrees Fahrenheit colder average winter temperatures for you, and the snowpack which I'm thinking may in some ways be an asset in terms of insulation and albedo-provided supplementary solar gain.

Kyrt Ryder wrote:I'd be very interested to hear about the earthship performance in that climate, it's somewhat similar to my own with short winter days which I presume are going to be thickly clouded more often than not.

Where the two differ- of course- is the 15ish degrees Fahrenheit colder average winter temperatures for you, and the snowpack which I'm thinking may in some ways be an asset in terms of insulation and albedo-provided supplementary solar gain.

One aspect of the Earthship that many overlook is the berming. We live in an Earthship, and without any heat, on a very cold winter day, the building will still not drop below 58 deg F. Even if a climate doesn't have the sunshine, it's a lot easier to heat up from 58 deg F, than from 32 deg F.