Eva Bryant, a volunteer who lives near the Village of Arts and Humanities, worked on the earthship and garden on Saturday morning.
Lu Thain (left) and Eva Bryant apply a mixture of clay, concrete and paper shreds to an earthship greenhouse that is part of the garden at the Villiage of Arts and Humanities. | ABI REIMOLD / TTN
Lu Thain (left) and Eva Bryant apply a mixture of clay, concrete and paper shreds to an earthship greenhouse that is part of the garden at the Villiage of Arts and Humanities. | ABI REIMOLD / TTN
Melissa, a volunteer who rode the bus to Philly from New York on Saturday morning to work on the earthship greenhouse, rubs a mud mixture of concrete, clay, and scrap paper onto compacted tires on the inside of the greenhouse.
An earthship is made from repurposed materials like tires and bottles and held together with a mixture of mud containing concrete and scrap paper. The earthship greenhouse at The Village of Arts and Humanities is made from all repurposed materials except for its roof.
An earthship is a passive solar home. It heats and cools itself, provides food and electricity and maintains its own sewage. This greenhouse is in earthship style, but it is not an earthship. For more information about Earthships in Philadelphia go to earthship.com/pennsylvania