Eco-friendly, energy-efficient 'Earthship' homes are made of garbage. Dec. 29, 2010 — -- Out in the desert near Taos, N.M., they're building houses out of garbage. Using old tires packed with ...

The author paid $220 a night for an off-grid Earthship Airbnb in Taos, New Mexico.Wendy Rose Gould I stayed in an off-grid Earthship in Taos, New Mexico, on a 600-acre community of other Earthships. I ...

You can now experience “Star Wars” living in this galaxy. Seemingly straight out of Tatooine, the fictional desert planet, a real-life earthship house in the Greater World Earthship Community has hit ...

Heading northwest from Taos, New Mexico, the sparse, sage-filled desert soon begins to sparkle as looming, Seussian structures appear in the distance. Earthships, as these buildings are called, may ...

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Along a rural road in northern New Mexico, homes rise from the dusty desert with futuristic shapes resembling something from another planet. They are known as Earthships: off-the-grid homes built into ...

TAOS, New Mexico — Old tires, crumpled cans and empty wine bottles are piling up at construction sites across the desert. A renewed purpose awaits these discarded items, which will become the building ...

I love to travel and stay in all kinds of unique lodgings. But I've always been especially fascinated by the idea of going off-grid, specifically in an Earthship. The author and her husband in front ...

I stayed in an off-grid Earthship in Taos, New Mexico, on a 600-acre community of other Earthships. I spent three days in the 1,000-square-foot space with a queen bed, living area, kitchen, and bath.

As a travel writer, I've stayed everywhere from five-star luxury resorts to treehouses in the woods, and 16th-century stone homes. I love seeing a place through the lens of unique lodging, and I also ...