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  • Earthships, Organite and Pyramid Power

    Earthships, Organite and Pyramid Power

    Pyramid Valley, Bangalore

    I recon if I live long enough that Earthships, Organite and Pyramid Power will become so common as to be blasé, as the millennial’s have now picked up on organite and many more people are learning about earthships. Eventually everyone will know about these wonderful products.

    In my mind I’d be ecstatic if Michael Reynolds, the inventor of Earthship Biotecture from New Mexico were to find a practical way to incorporate both organite and pyramid energy into his designs, most likely he has at one project over so many builds (as they call them), however I’ve yet to see one.

    As for Organite, it’s largely due to rising awareness of damaging EMF waves caused by wifi in our world of IoT, so on Amazon for example there are dozens if not hundreds of Organite vendors selling a vast array of designs, styles, shapes and sizes but by far the most common is the pyramid. Although, keep in mind that organite was originally generated in a cabinet that resembled a thick wooden cabinet, so the pyramid shape was adopted.

    It’s the combination of the pyramid and the elements inside the resin that cause the most effect and I’m not one to be able to notice it but they can be tested by using an EMF sensor and a cell phone, measuring with and without the organite. So there you have it, we can’t prove that organite actually omits anything but we can provide that it reduces EMF (electro magnetic frequency).

    The key purpose of a good organite pyramid is to use near your head when you are sleeping, so that you can give your brain a better rest from the constant bombardment of the hidden waves we call wifi. Then the the pyramid is mentioned here to, as it’s similar in that it’s hard to prove that the correctly tuned structure does anything measurable but there’s dozens of test you can do, for example cut fruit in half and put half in and half out but once again all you can prove is what doesn’t happen.

    Earthships are the most exciting invention to me, since the wheel. To get people living in shelters that produce food and generate their own electricity is such a breakthrough towards creating peaceful, happy existence on planet earth and get off the grid and back to nature.

    I found a new Earthship video today, from Collingwood, Ontario and I want to share this and keep spreading the good news.

    Pyramid Photo credit: criatvt on VisualHunt.com / CC BY-NC-ND

  • Earthships…. what’s not to like?

    Earthships…. what’s not to like?

    Earthships history - First experimental house completed new Taos, New Mexico
    First experimental house completed near Taos, New Mexico using empty steel beer and soft drink cans.

    It’s about a year since I first heard the curious name: Earthship, and ever since I’ve continue to learn about, what is now known as Biotecture. Never was there a concept so mutually agreed upon to be a good idea, that as hard as anyone tried they couldn’t come up with reason to not like earthship construction methods. For sure someone could still build a complete hovel in mud, worse than a cave using this architecture and also there are systems in the structure that can be poorly installed and make problems, like a normal home, but the overall concept just makes so much sense that we absolutely must promote this new way of building human habitation.

    It may sound funny to some, calling Earthships new because they’ve been around since the ’70’s but it’s really just been in the last decade that they’ve started to become mainstream, and recognized universally. There are earthships on every continent and all the major countries of the world but more importantly there are builders who have taken away the knowledge and gone on to build more, bigger and better projects, all of which helps to improve the techniques and increase the number of people telling other people about this great idea.

    The early earthships were very surreal looking and many styles and types of material had to be tried and tested. The early adopters were very open minded, often artistic types who wanted to create a masterpiece, as a place to live. Birds of a feather (as they say) attracted more creative spirited people, who were willing to take a chance, work really (extra really) hard. On building structures that redefine environmentally friendly construction, as these houses are built of earth, in the earth.

    Earthship plan with vertically glazed southern wall.svg
    “Earthship plan with vertically glazed southern wall” by Felix Müller – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

    [box]First experimental house completed new Taos, New Mexico using empty steel beer and soft drink cans the house was built using curved walls because they have more strength, resulting in pie-shaped interior rooms. There is a lawn care spot near the lawn on the roof below the overhang at the top of the structure. Re-cycled paper pulp is used to cover the the ceiling of the interior. Later homes were built without curved walls after the designer found the cans would support much more weight than they would have to bear. University tests later substantiated his finding.[/box]

    I predict that a decade from now, biotecture will be more the norm than the exception. Okay, maybe two decades from now….