New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend the channel's alternative-living videos, and this one for its look at a net-zero desert home.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Kirsten Dirksen

Topic

earthship homes

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2026

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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• Almost all the videos on this channel are fascinating btw. Greenhouses enveloping entire houses/villages[0][1] in northern Europe to earthships[2] to someone growing citrus in Nebraska using trenches[3] to entire villages underground in Australia[4] [0] [LINK] [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO] [3] [LINK] [4] [LINK] I'd also …

• Kirsten Dirksen Seems to be finding and documenting them on her YouTube channel: [LINK] Many are just individuals in alternative living situations or creative housing, but some are communities or -in-the-making: Earthship community in Taos New Mexico: [VIDEO] Back-to-the-traditional-village in Portugal: [LINK]

• Kinda of reminds me of this fun video about a net zero desert house(/commune?). They proposed/demostrated a cycle that is basically Shower -> indoor plants -> toilet -> outdoor plants New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost [VIDEO]