{"id":4897,"date":"2009-08-24T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2009-08-24T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T18:03:51","slug":"an-earthship-that-floats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/an-earthship-that-floats\/","title":{"rendered":"An Earthship that Floats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2009\/08\/brighton-earthship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4898\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2009\/08\/brighton-earthship.jpg\" alt=\"brighton earthship\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>David de Rothschild&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplastiki.com\/\">Plastiki<\/a> is a seaworthy boat made from reclaimed plastic bottles. Michael Reynolds&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthship.net\/\">Earthships <\/a>(the subject of the documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2008\/04\/01\/sundance-channel-launches-season-two-of-the-green-with-garbage-warrior\/\"><em>Garbage Warrior<\/em><\/a>) are homes built from reclaimed materials, and designed to provide basic needs for the homeowner: energy, food, water, and waste disposal. Put the two together, and you get the <em>Landlord Independent<\/em>, a work-in-progress by Providence, Rhode Island-based artists and activists Dan Gladstone and Zachary Weindel.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Their idea: a boat designed as &#8220;an open biodome,&#8221; or a &#8220;micro-continent,&#8221; according to Weindel. The <em>Landlord Independent<\/em> currently isn&#8217;t much more than a giant raft (made mostly from found and reused materials), but Gladstone and Weindel envision both energy and food production (including animals and gardens) onboard.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/sunfiltered\/2009\/08\/plastiki-earthship-landlord-independent\/\">Landlord Independent<\/a> at SUNfiltered<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dominicspics\/3288484181\/\">Dominic&#8217;s pics at Flickr<\/a> under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons license<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David de Rothschild&#8217;s Plastiki is a seaworthy boat made from reclaimed plastic bottles. 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