Earthship In Flagstaff, AZ

 Part 1: http://activerain.com/blogsview/878411/Earthships-What-is-it

More on how this home was built.

This home has been carefully and consciously constructed with mostly local, natural and
recycled materials. With the main living structure built using 900 used tires
(packed with dirt and used for the footings and load-bearing walls) the
home is not only a unique creation, it also provided an alternative use for
materials that otherwise would've ended up in a landfill. A second studio
added to the property is straw bale construction. Combining many
available technologies for sustainable building and living, this home offers
the following:
• Passive solar heating
• 400-watt photo voltaic solar system
• Power inverter
• 4 storage batteries
• Passive solar water heater
• Roof rainwater harvesting collects water which passes through a
three-level filtration system (with a separate fourth system that
feeds drinking water faucets)
• Grey water Filtration System waters two indoor planters
• Recycled glass bottles and aluminum cans used throughout
• Hand made recycled cabinets
• Flagstone interior and patio floors
• Rammed tire, straw bale and adobe construction
• Low VOC paint
• Straw bale shed with aluminum can and glass bottle ceiling

More Photos, Even more photos

The indoor gardens are water from the sink and bathroom sink/bathtub

Coke & Beer bottle make up the designs in the bathroom

This is the shed's ceiling, it has coke cans and the star is coke & beer bottles, so when the sun comes out it lights up.

Here is a close-up of the top.