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While here in Newcastle it’s drizzling, something like five degrees and we’re wrapped up warm even though we’re inside and the heating is on, elsewhere there is excitement in the sunshine.
News reaches me of a - get this - Nicaraguan Earthship being built. It appears it’s something of an eco pad built almost entirely of recycled rubbish - and trust me there is a lot of rubbish in Nicaragua and disposing of it is a big problem.
You can follow the ship’s progress here. We’re currently on day 5 of 16.
Their website offers a more indepth explanation:
Over the 16 days the team will be staging a series of awareness-raising and training events to ensure that the work can be replicated by local builders. The goal is to provide a lasting education on the principles and practical concepts of sustainable housing construction through the utilization of all recycled materials.
Casa Llanta is not the start of the first Earthship community in the world. Dig a little and you will find a host of successful Earthship communities around the world.
But we might just be witnessing the beginning of a Green Movement in Nicaragua, and more on that in later posts on this project
Fabulous. Impressed at the project, and jealous I am not a part of it, in relatively equal measures. Go and watch their progress. Link them. Spread the word. Save the world, etc.
Pics from MyBootsnMe.
