Uprooted, an eco/travel blog

Sustainable logging at its most ridiculous.

My arrival at Earthship Biotecture kicks off a green-building adventure in the high desert of Taos, New Mexico.

Eco-architecture is only for the rich—or so I thought. But guess what I found in Boston’s green-building scene?

How a group of artists created a sustainable life on the waterways of New York–and what we can learn from their shortcomings.

Even the best ideas can be taken too far. The story of a beautiful home, and how it was lost.

So, in my last entry I showed you what a viga run looks like. But there’s plenty I didn’t show you! Including the fact that the entire escapade took place at R.E.A.C.H., the original Earthship community founded in 1989.

R.E.A.C.H. (or “Rural Earthship Alternative Community Habitat” if you favor flavor over brevity) is a PRIVATE community, [...]

Bottle Brick Bathroom, originally uploaded by Earthship Kirsten

If you’ve been following my Earthships adventure, you know that it is actually possible to build houses using garbage. Can and bottle walls—literally walls made out of mud or cement, with cans or bottles set like bricks—are one of Mike Reynolds‘ time-tested innovations, a building technique that can [...]

After two full weeks of hard work and some pretty rough weather on the Earthship job site, we were all feeling kinda beat. But things are changing! There’s still snow on the mountaintops, but down here in Taos it’s a sunny day; spring is officially around the corner, and it really feels like the change [...]