DanSB
Avid Member
I've been thinking this for awhile and figured I would throw it out here.
If you haven't heard of Earthship houses they are essentially a passive solar home that utilizes recycled materials in construction and recycles essential life functions to e completely off the grid. The water comes from rain and is used multiple times ending up in a botanical cell to purify waste. The power comes from the wind, and all temperature regulation is achieved passively through design.
I can't really properly explain as I am not an expert here is the website: http://earthship.com/ and there is a ton on youtube and all sorts of other places.
One of the key features is a greenhouse as the front of the house. I got to thinking how these principals could be used to design a self sustaining Chameleon house and in general in the herp keeping world. Tropical environments should e easy to design for with just a little tweaking as that is essentially what they produce now.
I'm not a greenie but I really like the idea of sustainability and not paying power companies or relying on too much outside of myself for survival.
Either way I definitely recommend checking it out. I think a lot of the principals could be applied to improving chameleon keeping, especially on a larger scale.
If you haven't heard of Earthship houses they are essentially a passive solar home that utilizes recycled materials in construction and recycles essential life functions to e completely off the grid. The water comes from rain and is used multiple times ending up in a botanical cell to purify waste. The power comes from the wind, and all temperature regulation is achieved passively through design.
I can't really properly explain as I am not an expert here is the website: http://earthship.com/ and there is a ton on youtube and all sorts of other places.
One of the key features is a greenhouse as the front of the house. I got to thinking how these principals could be used to design a self sustaining Chameleon house and in general in the herp keeping world. Tropical environments should e easy to design for with just a little tweaking as that is essentially what they produce now.
I'm not a greenie but I really like the idea of sustainability and not paying power companies or relying on too much outside of myself for survival.
Either way I definitely recommend checking it out. I think a lot of the principals could be applied to improving chameleon keeping, especially on a larger scale.
