Learn from wombats: earth sheltered homes have a lower environmental impact


Earth-sheltered dwelling house in California

The sunken garden looks nice but they could have done more with the external space for this earth-sheltered dwelling house in California

When reducing the total impact of humans on the environment becomes a necessity, we may have to learn more from the lifestyles of wombats, teletubbies and hobbits. If so, I hope our species will also become cuter, cuddlier, and friendlier. JRR Tolkien may prove correct in his view that diminutive sausage-eaters will save the world from the black forces of evil.
PS But is that a triple garage?
(image courtesy Christopher Line)


6 thoughts on “Learn from wombats: earth sheltered homes have a lower environmental impact

  1. Tom Turner Post author

    It is a brilliant project – but it is rather a pity to have treated the external space as golf course, unless of course one is a golfer. I’d like to see the principles William Morgan illustrates used first on the scale of a group of houses, then a village, then a town and then a city. I’ll call that progress.

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  2. Rajan Mistry

    It’s fine that there’s a triple garage…just as long as there are about 8 people living inside inside of 2. Unlikely, but how deep does the rabbit hole go???

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