Solar Powered and Wind Powered Underground House

- ABIQUIU, NM, December 10, 2006 - Earthship Farm sits on twenty acres of New Mexico land. The land is fenced and then cross-fenced and powered by solar and wind energy. The earthship also contains AC electric around the boundary of the land. The earthship views the Jemez Mountains, Sangra de Cristos, and Cerro Negra right outside the windows. The farm is forty-five miles from Santa Fe and Los Alamos, and an hour from Taos. The house covers 2000 square feet, and includes excellent well water and recycling grey water.

Val Goldenbrook of Earthship farm has been selling and buying land successfully across the United States. Earthships are earth sheltered autonomous buildings made with rammed tire and bale straw and arranged in a horseshoe shape. Windows on the sunnier side of the earthship is what properly heats the underground home. Windows are set up to catch the maximum heat within the winter months.

Electricity is obtained form renewable energy sources such as solar cells or small windmills. The earthship is able to capture rainwater from the roof and store it, where it is reused for the kitchen and shower use. Having an earthship with windows facing south is a good idea in northern hemisphere climates. These homes heat and cool by themselves, collect their own power, harvest their own sustainable water and contain and treat their own sewage on site.

Earthship farm has the potential of making positive changes to people and to the world"s environment. For more information on Val Goldenbrook"s Earthship farm, located in New Mexico, visit the website and use the contact page for more information. The farm is self contained and is selling for $470,000.

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