THE VIDEO SHELF · earth-sheltered housing
Earth-cooled, shipping container underground CA home for 30K
Kirsten Dirksen profiles Steve Rees, who buried two shipping containers to build an earth-cooled, off-grid 640 sq ft home in Northern California for about $30,000, solar included.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as an example of earth-sheltered housing and as part of a channel HN loves for architecture and efficiency.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Kirsten Dirksen
- Topic
- earth-sheltered housing
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I can't recommend Kirsten Dirksen's channel enough to people interested in architecture, energy efficiency, tiny homes, 'green' construction, etc. Literally hundreds of hours of high-quality content - I'm really curious how she is able to find all of these interesting people who are doing such …
cwkoss on Hacker News · 2019-06
In Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around HomeI live in the desert as well. I'd love to have a house with better insulation to spend less on AC. Earth sheltered homes seems like a great way to do that (though there are other problems - e.g. moisture, heavier roof). [VIDEO] , [LINK] …
jay-anderson on Hacker News · 2018-08
In An office building in Seattle that doesn't have air conditioning
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