Biotecture Planet Earth, partnered with Cuore Attivo and Campus CreaVista in response of the devastating 2015 earthquake in Nepal, to build an Earthship for young teachers who take life-improving sustainable technologies to schools in some of the economically poorest valleys of Nepal.
Throughout November and December 2017, Michael Reynolds’ experienced Earthship crew and a number of volunteers and local workers built an education Earthship center for up to 16 young women who come to the center to learn sustainable technologies in order to then carry and spread that knowledge throughout remote schools in Nepal.
The Earthship exposes the students to life-improving sustainable technologies that they will help spread to villages throughout the Makalu Valley. As teachers, they play a key organizational role in educating their communities about the benefits of implementing simple sustainable technologies which include: self contained toilets; water harvesting; offgrid power generation; the possibilities of building with reused materials; food production and the use of a biodigester for producing methane for cooking.
The goal is to increase quality of life in terms of resilience, security and liberty and to avoid fragility and dependence on economic and political systems that can change without notice.
The building is:
– built with natural and repurposed materials
– uses thermal/solar heating and cooling
– generates solar electricity
– harvests and store water
– has its own contained sewage treatment system
– produces food
– is earthquake resistant
