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From CNET News.com:
TAOS, N.M.--Imagine maintaining a steady 70 degrees in your house high in the New Mexico desert, even as outside temperatures vary between 100 and minus-20, all without spending a dime on power.
Can't picture it? Owners of an innovative type of housing known as earthships can.
That's because earthships are specifically designed to be comfortable in any climate even as they're entirely off the grid and made using a healthy supply of natural and recycled materials.
Earthships currently exist in every U.S. state and in several other countries, but the Earthship World Community, about 15 miles northwest of Taos, N.M., is ground zero for this alternative form of dwelling. It's forbidding country: flat, arid, high-altitude and really hot in summer. And really cold in winter.
As you head west on U.S. Highway 64, you come across a collection of about 60 oddly shaped but wonderful-looking houses off the right side of the road. And you immediately notice one thing: each and every one of them is built into the side of a small hill.
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