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Knowing that he needed a product that is always available and would be hard to dispose of, he designed a home built out of used tires.

Construction is simple, but very time-consuming, but what you lose in free time, you make up for in energy savings. Earthship walls absorb heat quickly and release it slowly, allowing the

 houses to maintain a natural temperature of around 60 degrees.

While living in an Earthship may take more work than living in a condo or a typical suburban residence, the eco-friendly homes have become surprisingly popular.

Several Earthship subdivisions have opened up in the past few years, including the Greater World Earthship Community near Taos, New Mexico, which was founded in 1994. Greater World residents build their own homes and, in an interesting twist on subdivision bylaws, are expressly forbidden from hooking up to public utilities or digging wells on their land.