It was assembled in a warehouse on Southside, then slowly driven through the city (past the Cathedral of Learning at Pitt and down Forbes past CMU) on a nine-hour journey with a police escort until it was deposited on its foundation in eight acres of woods off a dead end road in the City of Pittsburgh.

Diane’s article about green housing on the Parsec Ink website describes features of sustainable houses.

CMU Earthship Scholarship

Earthships are beautiful, sustainable, off-the-grid homes built with recycled and in-situ materials. They harvest rainwater off the roof to be reused four times through a system that provides for drinking, washing, plumbing and gardening. On the Southern exposure, greenhouses provide food. These passive solar homes heat water by the sun, while tubes run underground for geothermal cooling and solar and wind power is stored in battery banks. Builders at Earthship Biotechture, outside of Taos, NM, have refined designs since the 70’s, teaching students of architecture how to construct these affordable homes in any climate. Academies run four weeks, starting at the beginning of six months of each year, and the more labor intensive, Internships run during the off-season for optimal building. Each Academy offers a 50-50 split between classroom activities and onsite training for up to two dozen students selected from around the world.  

This annual Earthship scholarship provides a CMU student an opportunity to travel to New Mexico and participate in an Earthship Academy. It includes travel costs, room and board, Academy fees and a stipend for rented tools and equipment. An ideal candidate for this scholarship would be a CMU student who has shown an interest in sustainability and is open to melding technological lessons learned at CMU with the back-to-the-Earth philosophy of Earthship Biotecture. Two letters of recommendation are requested and a completed Academy application.

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