Club of Rome

"Information Theory in Ecology"

The most important factor we can suggest for those who really love this idea and want to make it work is to study everything you can about the vernacular architecture in the place you want to live.

Earthship Europe has modified the designs extensively to make them work for European climates, and their spinoff Flagship Europe has walked away from the Earthship concept entirely.

Earthship Hype and Earthship Reality” on GreenBuildingAdvisor.com, building expert Martin Holladay

However, it took them 2 years to break away from the big idea and back to something that truly worked for its place. The best news of all (for me) was that humble little building supported local crafts, culture, economies, and because of all that – it was both affordable and easily maintainable. That was good design. And it was sustainable.

There IS embodied energy in an Earthship. Just because we are reusing the embodied energy required does not negate its existence. In fact, the reality here is that reusing cans in walls requires more materials to be mined and manufactured because the first-generation cans are being removed from the recycling stream.

Showing it coming from a direction it rarely does suggests that the ventilation will not work effectively.

Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet