The Tamaqua Sustainability Project, in Schuylkill County, is an off-grid home inspired by designs in the desert of New Mexico.
TAMAQUA, Pa. — At first glance, the long glass building on a sun-soaked hillside in this rural Schuylkill County town is obviously a greenhouse., or will be in a few more years, builder Will Vogler said. It’s also a natural heating and cooling system and a water filtration plant off the grid, in the woods. Vogler calls his 80-foot-by-50-foot building the “Tamaqua Sustainability Project,” inspired by a decades-old architecture developed in the high desert of New Mexico.
A combination of climate change, catastrophic weather events, water scarcity, and power grid failures have cast the Earthshipin a new light, however. Reynolds said there’s about 3,000 already built, globally, some as far as New Zealand and Australia. He’s still building more in a 630-acre subdivision in Taos and said they’re all sold before they’re finished.Today, Reynolds thinks there’s no structure better designed to combat climate changeand survive in it than the Earthship.
“Hurricane Sandy, in particular, was really eye-opening,” he said. “It seemed like there was quite a few storms for a time, one after another. We live in a wooded area and having our power going out all the time had me thinking there has to be a better way.” and, after learning about Earthship biotecture picked their brains about building a greenhouse in that style.Vogler kept researching and connected with seasoned Earthship builders who helped get his project off the ground, or rather, into it. Vogler, 47, and his father, Bill, purchased the 18 acres in Tamaqua about three years ago.
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