Preliminary Schedule
9:30am-12:30pm
Slideshow and presentation by Kirsten Jacobsen, Education Director, Earthship Biotecture.
The history and development of the Earthship will be discussed.

Earthship design principles will be explained in detail:

• Building with Natural and Recycled Materials

• Thermal Solar Heating and Cooling

• Solar and Wind Electricity

• Water Harvesting
• Contained Sewage Treatment
• Food Production in Earthships.

All different types of Earthship designs will be presented and discussed:

• Packaged Earthships
• Modular Earthships
• Hybrid Earthships
• Global Model Earthships
• Custom Earthships

Other material covered will include:

• International Demonstration Projects
• Earthship Communities
• The Sustainable Development Testing Sites Act
• The Owner - Builder Earthship Experience

2:00pm-4:00pm
Hands-on work at the Earthship construction site led by the Earthship Crew.
Learn basic Earthship construction methods. Come prepared to get dirty and have fun!

• Tire Pounding
• Can Laying
• Pack out

4:00pm-5:00pm
Q & A on site with Earthship founder Michael Reynolds.

Earthship Books, DVDs and T-shirts will be available for purchase.

Cost: $150 USD per person.

To sign up with a credit card, please call the Earthship World Headquarters at 575-751-0462.
Space is limited.

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Michael Reynolds
Michael Reynolds is a world leader in sustainable housing. For over forty years he has been designing and building homes that heat and cool themselves, are built from natural and recycled materials, produce their own electricity, collect their own water, treat their own sewage and grow their own food. He is the author of seven books, the initiator of 3 off-grid communities, subject of the documentary Garbage Warrior and travels with his team around the world demonstrating Earthship/sustainable principles. Recent international projects include: a teahouse in the Netherlands, a sustainable home in Nicaragua, an eco resort in Jamaica, hurricane relief in Mexico, tsunami relief in India, a residence in France and demonstrations in England, Scotland, Norway, Spain, Japan, Bolivia, Bonaire and Honduras. Winter 2008-9 Michael was a guest lecturer teaching Sustainable Architecture at the Bergen School of Architecture, Norway. He is currently working with groups in Port au Prince Haiti to rebuild with sustainable methods while teaching the local population.

Kirsten Jacobsen
Kirsten Jacobsen has been building, promoting, photographing and living in off-grid solar powered Earthships for 16 years. As Education Director for Earthship Biotecture she teaches alternative building techniques such as mud plaster and reused bottle brick wall construction, lectures on Earthship solar power and water catchment systems for school groups and private seminars, acts as media representative for the company, designs educational displays focusing on Earthship design principles, helps organize international Earthship builds and oversees the out of country training program while helping to build Earthships in Belgium, Scotland, England, Spain, France, Hawaii, Mexico and Jamaica. She manages the popular Earthship Intern Program and selects interns from around the world to work on autonomous homes at Earthship Biotecture headquarters in Taos, New Mexico. Her photographs of the unique and sculptural homes of the future have appeared in publications around the world, most recently in The Wall St. Journal and Green Architecture Now, published by Taschen. In 1998 she began building her own Earthship home, a journey that took eight years to complete.