Our NY earthship project is nearing the final stages of plan design based on the client’s living needs. We are now starting to look at the layout and how it relates to the site. To do this first we render the plans into three dimensions. Here is the earthship in 3d. Pretty cool, no?
We are earthship enthusiasts here at Eco Brooklyn, and are currently speaking with a client who wants to build an earthship in New York State. Here are some ideas being thrown around between Michael Reynolds, Eco Brooklyn, and the client, that we may be able to help turn into reality. The schematic of this global …
Hey all you Eco Brooklynites, Gennaro is speaking at an Earth-ship event this coming Sunday. Come enjoy a free community seminar with multiple speakers and videos. Here is all the details: Perpetual Brooklyn Resiliency (PBR) Presents… Perma Sunday!!! At the dZong: 778 Bergen Street, 2nd flr. Prospect Heights, Brooklyn NY 11238 Here is the FB event page https://www.facebook.com/events/116401015214522/ …
The two best building systems I know of right now are the Earthship and Passive House methods. Right now Eco Brooklyn is lucky enough to be involved in two jobs that involve both systems, one a NY earthship and the other a NY Passive House. Earthship building is best for non-urban parts of the world. …
Here are some of the latest earthship videos sent to me from the folks at earthship.com Comments on earthships and the Copenhagen summit. Here is another cool one: The one peeve I have with this last video is “What the world needs now is one Billion earthsips, immediately.” That sounds too much like old school …
Michael Reynolds is one of my favorite visionaries. He is doing what Eco Brooklyn aims to do with eco brownstone renovations in Brooklyn – Build net zero homes out of trash – only he does it with earth ships in the Midwest and beyond. Check it out. Really cool. These are the only justifiable new …
Eco Brooklyn is now a Living Wall installer! We have had eight glorious years of being an all round Green Builder. We have build Passive House buildings, Earthships, a Container House, countless green roofs, salvaged floors, Natural Swimming pools, salvaged glass decks, and a thousand other cool green building jobs. And yes, even living walls. …
Eco Brooklyn has Changed Again! We are Living Wall Installers! Read More »
If you are interested in green building, environmentalism, or architecture, chances are that you have seen some of the chic structures coming out of the shipping container building movement. These structures range from the Redondo Beach container home, which won an award for innovative design from The American Institute of Architects in 2007, to the …
I got an email from Jetson Green today with the title “Factory-Built Homes Are the Future”. This is quite the statement. With few exceptions throughout history homes have been built on site by hand. The idea that a home is built in a factory with high tech machines and then plopped down on the site …
Part of being a green contractor means studying emerging technologies offering more eco-benefits than conventional construction. In this case we’re looking at old technologies: the rammed earth wall, one of humanity’s oldest building techniques. When it comes to walls, a couple of rammed-earth techniques are available as alternatives to your standard insulation-filled 2×4 frames: The Earthship model uses …
