Dive Brief:
- With their hands and those of about 40 volunteer fellow-believers, a Canadian couple and their son are building an off-the-grid, on-the-prairie home called an Earthship.
- Designed by Earthship Biotecture, the house is to be independent of supply grids, using solar heat and power and a woodstove, and collecting and filtering rainwater.
- Dawn and Glen Kinney will be living in the house near Vulcan, Alberta.
Dive Insight:
Earthship Biotecture founder Michael Reynolds says the structure was designed and tested in the mountains of New Mexico in a climate more harsh than the Alberta prairie. Dawn Kinney says she hopes it all works because a plumber familiar with the system is not readily available, but she adds that she's a believer in the concept, so she's "fairly confident."
