EarthShips! Self sufficient Housing

[Pa3s]

Earthships are a good solution for single, self-sufficient houses or smaller villages in remote places, not so much for whole cities. Personally, I like the design and the idea behind it, but the best part is the very clever integration of heat-regulation, wastewater treatment and other useful devices directly into the building. And it's all realized with "low tech" means. Our houses could have been constructed similarly, but there was no need for that because people didn't care about the energy-efficiency. Masdar City is an attempt to create a self-sufficient city with a high-tech standard, but also by including useful low-tech elements like windcatchers.

However, I'd still prefer to live in an earthship rather than in Masdar City because they are more individual and constructed by motivated people and not oil sheiks with a huge budget. On the other handside, I don't want to talk down the potential value of Masdar City as an experiement for future self-sufficient cities or even arcologies. It just looks incredibly sterile to me.

[SyrupDeGem]

Earthships are a good solution for single, self-sufficient houses or smaller villages in remote places, not so much for whole cities. Personally, I like the design and the idea behind it, but the best part is the very clever integration of heat-regulation, wastewater treatment and other useful devices directly into the building. And it's all realized with "low tech" means. Our houses could have been constructed similarly, but there was no need for that because people didn't care about the energy-efficiency. Masdar City is an attempt to create a self-sufficient city with a high-tech standard, but also by including useful low-tech elements like windcatchers.

However, I'd still prefer to live in an earthship rather than in Masdar City because they are more individual and constructed by motivated people and not oil sheiks with a huge budget. On the other handside, I don't want to talk down the potential value of Masdar City as an experiement for future self-sufficient cities or even arcologies. It just looks incredibly sterile to me.

Holy wow. It has podcars!! The future is nearly here.

[xerx]

Masdar City is an attempt to create a self-sufficient city with a high-tech standard, but also by including useful low-tech elements like windcatchers.

so, how many indian guest workers slaves does it take to screw in an environmentally friendly light bulb?

[leckysupport]

so, how many indian guest workers slaves does it take to screw in an environmentally friendly light bulb?

Friendly reminder: a large part of the western consumerist driven economy is underpinned by sweatshop slave labor.

[xerx]

Friendly reminder: a large part of the western consumerist driven economy is underpinned by sweatshop slave labor.

that makes me just as angry

[Pa3s]

so, how many indian guest workers slaves does it take to screw in an environmentally friendly light bulb?

No matter under what circumstances it is constructed it can still be used as an experimental site for better, future projects.

EDIT: I'm not endorsing the project for that reason.