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Stanmer Organics and Earthship Brighton

Learn about the work that takes place at Stanmer Park and how The Earthship Brighton was constructed.

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Stanmer Organics is a community non-profit organisation working on 17 acres of council land in Stanmer Park.

The area is used for horticultural, agricultural and educational purposes using only organic growing techniques, as well as environmental art. Earthship Brighton is used for meetings, training, events and administration.

The Earthship Brighton is one of only two earthships in the UK. The award-winning ‘green building’ is constructed from waste car tyres and other recycled materials and uses the planet’s natural systems to provide all its utilities.

The Low Carbon Trust manages and provides regular  public tours of Earthship Brighton to educate and inspire people about sustainable living and low carbon technologies.

  • Stanmer Organics, Brighton Permaculture Trust, Brighton & Hove Food Partnership, Fork and Dig It, and Sussex Wildlife Trust are all among the delivery partners in the Stanmer Park Restoration Project  and will be providing volunteering and other activities as part of the project.

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Apple Day at Stanmer Park is a free annual event (usually on the last Sunday in September) where people can eat fruit and produce from the orchards, enjoy juicing and other children’s activities, go on tours of the orchard and much more.

The Fruit Factory in Stanmer Village is a place where the public will be able to see the Scrumping Project process 20 tons of local fruit per year into juices and cider. The fruit comes from Stanmer, around the city - and from fruit the supermarkets won't accept from Sussex orchards. It is also a training venue and is nearing completion.

Brighton Permaculture Trust manages three orchards organically at Stanmer and holds the National Collection of Sussex Apples .

'The Plot' at Stanmer Organics shows permaculture in action. Here volunteers have created a forest garden on regular workdays.

Courses include permaculture, fruit growing and eco-building. Many of these are run from the Earthship and the Fruit Factory.

  • Visit the Brighton Permaculture Trust for more details

Fork and Dig it

Fork And Dig It is a not-for-profit community growing project practising and promoting low-impact organic horticulture on a beautiful site at Stanmer Organics in the stunning surroundings of Stanmer Park, Brighton.

Run by volunteers, the project grows organic fruit and vegetables in as bio-diverse way as possible on two acres of Soil Association-accredited land in the tranquil outskirts of the Great Wood that borders the South Downs National Park , an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Fork And Dig It supplies produce to the local community through independent retailers such as Infinity Foods, and through Veg Share, Brighton's first community-supported agriculture scheme.

Teaching and learning from other people and groups as it grows, Fork And Dig It aims to promote long, happy, healthy lives by cultivating delicious, nutritious and affordable local produce in a long-term sustainable way.

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Stanmer Wellbeing Gardens

Brighton & Hove Food Partnership is coordinating a patch of land at Stanmer Park called ‘Stanmer Wellbeing Gardens’. This is a community space, shared by 12 groups. Here people can find sanctuary and nurture wellbeing by getting involved in food-growing, gardening, education and nature connection activities.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust

The plot is known as The Wildlife Garden (or just 'The Garden'). It is managed and maintained by two groups organised by  Sussex Wildlife Trust (SWT), The Youth Rangers (16 to 25 years old) and the Wildlife Rangers (12 to 16 years old).

It started life as a field of nettles and has been transformed over the last few years into an area of diverse habitats. SWT has built a fantastic pond which is now full of all kinds of pond plants, amphibians, insects and other bugs and a "meadow in the corner" full of wonderful flowers and other plants and insects.

If you'd like to get involved, contact Huw Morgan, Access to Nature Officer. Email [email protected] or phone 07771 375 273 or go to the  Sussex Wildlife Trust website .

  • Find out more about Stanmer Organics and Earthship Brighton  on the Carbon Trust website.

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Regular public tours of Earthship Brighton are held on some weekends. The meeting point is outside Stanmer House - the full address is below. Please check the schedule and meeting times carefully. The tour lasts between 1 and 1.5 hours.

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Brighton’s iconic earthship: appeal for upgrade of energy and water systems

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Brighton’s iconic earthship: appeal for upgrade of energy and water systems

Earthships are self-contained living vessels that don’t rely on mains water or energy from big companies. Earthships use natural systems to provide all their own utilities — solar energy for heat and power, and rain for water — they heat and cool themselves, and use plants, both inside and outside, to treat ‘grey water (used water from bathroom sinks, showers, tubs, and washing machines (excluding water from the toilet).

Earthship Brighton embodies five core elements of sustainable construction to create a building with outstanding ‘green’ credentials.

Use of low impact materials in construction  — using local, recycled, waste, natural and renewable materials

Passive solar design  — enjoying the sun’s free energy for space heating

Renewable energy  — zero fossil fuel consumption for day-to-day running with on-site generation of power for electricity and water heating

Rainwater harvesting  — free water from the skies with no mains connection and subsequent groundwater depletion

Using plants to treat waste water  — no sewage infrastructure with on-site ‘waste water’ treatment using plants and natural processes.

Earthships have evolved over the last thirty years from the pioneering work of architect Michael Reynolds, Earthship Biotecture and the residents of the first three Earthship communities in Taos, New Mexico, USA.

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The internationally known earthship has delighted and educated thousands of visitors for over nine years but now the much loved eco-building needs to revamp its energy and water systems. The earthship was designed and built by the Low Carbon Trust in 2006 as a model low carbon community centre for courses and school visits.

One of Brighton’s most iconic buildings, the earthship was the first of its kind to be built in England and is one of only two earthships in the UK (the other is in Fife, Scotland). Stanmer Park, one of Brighton’s most visited green spaces, is home to the award-winning building.

Working as a demonstration site the earthship is not a home. It illustrates how — with smart design and careful planning — the buildings we live and occupy can have a low impact on the planet whilst being both beautiful and comfortable.

some numbers pertaining to the earthship –  http://www.lowcarbon.co.uk/earthship-brighton/earthship-brighton-by-numbers

average annual energy use in a UK house is 4115 kWh electricity and 14263 kWh gas – https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449134/ECUK_Chapter_3_-_Domestic_factsheet.pdf

earthships are designed to use a lot less than this and all energy is provided from onsite renewable energy, such as solar panels and wood stoves

over 27% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions come from housing. 60% of energy at home was used for space heating and 15% for hot water. Therefore a large proportion of the UK carbon footprint comes from people heating their homes –  https://www.cse.org.uk/projects/view/1112  and https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/65599/6919-domestic-energy-use-study.pdf

the earthship reduces the amount of heating required through use of solar gains, thermal mass and high levels of insulation

50% of carbon emissions come from the UK’s built environment –  https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/modernbuiltktn/public-reports1

“The UK produces around 55 million waste tyres a year. If not properly reused, recycled or disposed of, waste tyres can harm the environment and affect local communities, with fly tipping and fires.” –  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-government-policy-waste-and-recycling/2010-to-2015-government-policy-waste-and-recycling#appendix-8-disposing-of-tyres

each earthship uses around 1000 waste car tyres in it’s walls. Tyres are banned from landfill under the EU Landfill Directive, so finding innovative ways to reuse of them is vital –  http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/landfill_index.htm

average daily water use in the UK is 150 litres per person. The earthship reduces this through low water use goods, e.g. taps, showers and toilets. All of this water then becomes waste water which is usually treated in a sewage plant. The earthship treats all of its waste water onsite using grey water planters and reed beds –  http://www.waterwise.org.uk/data/resources/25/Water_factsheet_2012.pdf

construction waste stats here:  http://www.ukgbc.org/resources/additional/key-statistics-construction-waste

The earthship reduces construction waste by using excavated earth in the rammed waste tyre walls. Lots of water materials, such as glass bottles, cans and reclaimed timber.

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Brighton based Low Carbon Trust is a not-for-profit organisation that was formed in 2001 to set up, manage, and promote environmental projects. Low Carbon Trust was established to increase awareness about the links between buildings that people live and work in, the carbon dioxide emissions that are produced by this and the resulting climate change.

The Low Carbon Trust does this by:

Running dozens of green building courses each year

Monthly Earthship Brighton tours

Running the popular Eco Education Days

Running the yearly Green Architecture Day: a weekend of talks by designers, practitioners & professionals run in partnership with Brighton Permaculture Trust

Promoting an ecological approach to architecture

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The Low Carbon Trust need to raise £20,000 to acquire a new ultraviolet water filtration system to purify rainwater for use inside the building, purchase new batteries to store electricity generated by the solar panels, and to build a straw bale unit to securely house the new batteries.

With these new systems in place the building will be able to host many more events and courses and open the building up to the local community to use it for their own projects and events whilst continuing to demonstrate cutting edge renewable technologies alongside elegant ecological building design.

The Low Carbon Trust is launching a crowdfunding campaign, Earthship Brighton: Plugged into Nature to upgrade its vital energy and water systems. The crowdfunding campaign launches on Tuesday 13th of October 2015 on Buzzbnk, the UK’s first crowdfunding platform and will last for 30 days only.

Buzzbnk is the UK’s first crowdfunding platform specifically for social enterprises and charities

To support the appeal, go here:  https://www.buzzbnk.org/EarthshipBrighton

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1 robertalcock November 10th, 2015

This is all very nice, but what do lowimpact.org think of the Earthship as a concept? In my view as a natural builder with 10 years’ experience (see http://www.abrazohouse.org ), it’s massively over-hyped and has been sold as “the answer” to sustainable building, to people who don’t know what other options are out there. It’s the same thing that happened with the geodesic dome, and for the same reasons.

You might take a look at the following links to get a different view of the topic.

http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/earthship-hype-and-earthship-reality

http://thingsthatwindmeup.blogspot.com.es/2010/06/some-thoughts-on-earthships.html

http://www.permies.com/t/14444/earthship/Earthship-woes

2 Dave Darby November 10th, 2015

Hi Robert, Yes, we’ve heard about the attempted copyright (successful?) of the word ‘earthship’, which is why we don’t have an earthship topic on Lowimpact.org. We have earth-sheltered housing, and a whole range of other building techniques, but not earthships, for the above reason, and because an earthship is not really a type of natural home – but rather, it encompasses lots of other techniques and topics, like earth-shelters (although an earthship doesn’t have to be an earth-shelter), solar, wind, rainwater harvesting, compost loos etc. And we do have all those things as topics in their own right. We’re wary of things that are touted as ‘the answer’, and we usually find that there will be a range of topics contributing to the best solution for a given location and budget.

3 Dave Darby November 10th, 2015

Also, I think that the failure of a lot of low-impact living projects boils down to wanting to live an energy-hungry, consumer lifestyle, with TVs, dishwashers and flights – just in a natural home (usually a big one) with some renewable add-ons. I don’t think these things go together at all.

4 robertalcock November 10th, 2015

I agree, there are a lot of ideas that are “bundled” in the Earthship concept. Many of which could be good ideas, if done right, others of which are probably bad ideas in most cases — one of the latter, in my view, is the key characteristic of Earthships, namely making walls by ramming hundreds of tyres full of earth. If you want an earth wall, you’d be better off just building an earth wall (rammed earth, compressed brick, cob or earthbag). But don’t expect an Earthship devotee to tell you that.

What I’m concerned about with a project like the Brighton Earthship is that it’s presenting a very one-sided and unbalanced (even, you might say, cultish) view of what sustainable building(s) should look like.

Re your other points, and how to judge the success or failure of a low-impact living project… Tiny house better than big house? It’s debatable. The bigger the house, the more floor area (and hence the more good stuff you can do) within a given cost (and a given area of building envelope). A big house that’s heated by the sun and firewood doesn’t generate any more CO2 during its occupation than a small one. Sure, tiny houses can be lovely, but try living in one with growing kids, house guests, your office, your partner’s yoga space and your home brew equipment… I’d say low-impact building is about building the right size for your needs, neither too big nor too small (and either way, making sure that it’s very efficient.)

Hand washing better than automatic dishwasher? Not necessarily — unless you’re very good at washing dishes by hand ( http://is.gd/i3v3gi ). I’m not, and while I appreciate the meditative aspect of it, it takes a lot of time, especially when you’ve got big groups of people… Personally I’d be in favour of using banana leaves as plates.

As for taking flights or not — what has that got to do with low-impact building? How can it have any bearing on which building techniques are the most appropriate to use in a give setting?

It’s all very well to say that flying is bad, but let’s say, hypothetically, that you have decided to leave a country (like, say, the UK) where planning laws are draconian and land outrageously expensive, in order to fulfill your dream of building your own low-impact home, and that (thanks to tax breaks and favourable regulations for aviation) flying is by far the most economical way of seeing friends and family back home… does this invalidate your way of life entirely?

5 Dave Darby November 10th, 2015

Ha! Love the banana leaf idea. A big house is fine for an extended family or a commune, but the more money people have, the bigger the house they tend to build. See this great letter by Art Ludwig of Oasis Design – http://lowimpactorg.wpengine.com/size-matters-why-a-big-house-cant-be-a-green-house/ . The hand-washing vs dishwasher debate is one I’d like to look into at some point, but I don’t think that the comparisons I’ve read take two things into consideration – first the materials and energy to make the dishwasher, and second, the fact that you have to give money to a multinational corporation to get one. (the article in the link didn’t mention either of those two things). But it did say that the average dishwasher cycle uses 6 gallons of water! There’s no way on earth that I’d use half that much to wash our dishes. Flying and buildings – I think that usually, the most damaging aspect of a building, ecologically-speaking, is the lifestyle of the people who live in it. It’s no good having a super-eco house if you still want to consume lots and fly lots. That’s the gripe I always had with ‘Grand Designs’ – they usually had quite high-impact lifestyles, but had solar panels, so that’s ok then. The problem with flying is that it’s so enormously damaging, and the biosphere doesn’t care whether your miles are love miles or a beach holiday in Goa – the damage is the same. Again, I’d say that a high-impact lifestyle negates the benefits of a low-impact home, .

6 robertalcock November 13th, 2015

One other excellent link about the pros and cons of earthships, and I’ll get off my hobby horse:

http://archinia.com/index.php/58-publications/publications/216-earthship-pros-and-cons

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Welcome to the Low Carbon Trust and the home of Earthship Brighton .

We are a not-for-profit organisation formed in 2001 to set up, manage and promote environmental projects.

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One of our first projects was building Earthship Brighton. Despite the name, the aim of this project was not to build a 'ship' in the conventional sense, but to construct a building that would be used to show how a low energy and low waste future could look.  All of our green building training and Eco Education Days for local schools are based at the earthship.

Earthship Brighton is an environmental education centre and after winning numerous awards is being showcased as one of the most progressive eco-buildings in Europe.  Our book Earthships in Europe covers the project in detail.  Also, click here for an interactive demonstration of the structure and function of Earthship Brighton .  We offer regular and private tours of Earthship Brighton.

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2024 courses: Friday 12 – Sunday 14 July 2024 Friday 11 – Sunday 13 October 2024

This course runs from 9am to 5.30pm at Earthship Brighton, Stanmer Park, Brighton

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This course is for anyone thinking about building their own home and anyone interested in learning about Earthships.  Includes practical workshops.

What is an earthship.

An Earthship is a low impact building that makes use of recycled materials in its construction including over 1000 car tyres. It has passive solar heating and cooling and uses only renewable technologies. All the water used is harvested from rain-water and recycled with waste water management on site.

What will the Self-building an Earthship course cover?

We will go through how a building can use the sun instead of central heating and how to build in natural, passive ventilation. We’ll look at how it is possible to live off-grid. This includes how you can harvest and recycle water and an outline of the relative merits of micro-renewable technologies like solar, biomass, wind and hydro. We will look at what you need to think about when sourcing environmentally-friendly materials and how to avoid the most damaging materials.

Mischa Hewitt will discuss the practicalities of turning the dream into a reality: getting planning permission, building control and finances. You’ll get hands-on practical experience in ramming car tyres that make up the walls of an Earthship, earth rendering, and making a glass bottle brick wall. Lastly, you’ll see how all these elements come together in case studies including  Earthship Brighton .

This course will build on the good work of Mike Reynolds and focus on adapting Earthships to the UK climate.

A taste of what you’ll learn

For more videos from our Self-building an Earthship course, on topics ranging from cob rendering to rainwater harvesting:  click here .

Who is the course for?

This course is open to anyone aged 16 or over. It is for anyone thinking about building their own home and anyone interested in learning about Earthships. It is suitable for complete beginners, as well as those who are familiar with eco-building and want to know more.

Learning methods and outcomes

Participants will learn what needs to be considered when building an environmentally sensitive home as well as what is involved in building an Earthship. They will learn how to gain autonomy and free themselves from gas and electricity bills. They will learn basic building physics which can shed light on how all buildings work. They will also gain the knowledge and confidence to take their ideas to the next stage.

Course tutors

  Rebecca Sarll  is the main tutor and is a qualified trainer with an MSc in Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies (Distinction) from the Centre for Alternative Technology. She has experience in straw bale and hemp lime building as well as more conventional construction methods.

Jon Kalviac  worked on Earthship Brighton and also on the Zwolle Earthship built in Holland last year. He is a regular tour guide of  Earthship Brighton  and has much experience of working with rammed tyres.

Mischa Hewitt  was one of the project managers of Earthship Brighton, is the author of the book  Earthships in Europe,  and has an MSc in Architecture: Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies (Distinction) from the Centre for Alternative Technology. He is a building consultant, domestic and non-domestic energy assessor, and has worked on many eco renovation projects.

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If you intend to book accommodation, please check availability before booking a place, as accommodation in Brighton can be hard to find, especially over the summer months.

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  1. Tours of Earthship Brighton

    Tours of Earthship Brighton. The Low Carbon Trust offers tours of Earthship Brighton. There are regularly scheduled and are open to anybody. Group tours can be booked for other times, please see the tour schedule for forthcoming tours and tour reviews to see what past visitors have said. The charge for individuals on our regular tours is £5 ...

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    Earthship Brighton tour. Learn about the sustainable and green technologies used in the construction and operation of Earthship Brighton, a venue for many Brighton Permaculture Trust courses, in this 1-hour tour. Tours are run by Low Carbon Trust and usually take place once a month on a Sunday. The charge is £5 per person.

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    I went to Brighton to see the first Earthship built in the UK and still the only one in England.This is the full tour filmed on May 2021.Thanks to Low Carbon...

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    Earthship Brighton is the UK's ultimate eco-paradise, built on a swath of agricultural park council-owned land on the outskirts of town in Stanmer Park. ... Tours (£5) take place on weekends ...

  5. Public tours schedule

    The tour will involve a walk of around 1 mile (round trip) however people with mobility issues can take cars right up to to the building and Earthship Brighton itself is fully accessible by all. Public tours meeting point. The address of the meeting point for our public tours is: Stanmer House Stanmer Park Brighton East Sussex BN1 9QA. Group tours

  6. Stanmer Organics and Earthship Brighton

    Stanmer Organics is a community non-profit organisation working on 17 acres of council land in Stanmer Park. The area is used for horticultural, agricultural and educational purposes using only organic growing techniques, as well as environmental art. Earthship Brighton is used for meetings, training, events and administration.

  7. Earthship Brighton

    Earthship Brighton. Stanmer Park. Lewes Road. BN1 9SE. View on Google Maps. One of only two Earthships in the UK, it is an off-grid building that heats, cools, powers itself from the sun, harvests it's water from the sky and treats it's wastewater onsite using plants. Throughout the Earthship Brighton project the focus has been spreading a ...

  8. Experience green living at the Earthship Brighton

    The Earthship Brighton was the first to be built in England. A green building constructed from waste car tyres and other recyclable materials, the Earthship Brighton uses the planet's natural resources to provide all the utilities. The Earthship is in Stanmer Park and regular tours are available. For those looking to emulate the green ...

  9. Earthship Brighton

    Earthship Brighton is currently one of only two Earthships in the UK [3] and was the first Earthship to be built in England. [7] Earthship Brighton is used as a community and environmental education centre, with regular guided tours for the public. [8] It is used as a venue for various green building courses, including a three-day course on ...

  10. Tour of Earthship Brighton

    Tour of Earthship Brighton. 21 April - 04 July. 10:45 -12:15. Regular public tours of Earthship Brighton are held on some weekends. The meeting point is outside Stanmer House - the full address is below. Please check the schedule and meeting times carefully. The tour lasts between 1 and 1.5 hours.

  11. Earthship Brighton

    Earthship Brighton. Stanmer Park, Lewes Road +44 1273 766631 more than a year ago. share post a comment. Not a day goes by without the perilous plight of our climate hitting the headlines, but there still seems to be far more talk than action. Not so at Brighton's Earthship, a self-sustainable building completed in 2006 that helps to educate ...

  12. Brighton's iconic earthship: appeal for upgrade of energy and water

    Brighton Earthship. The internationally known earthship has delighted and educated thousands of visitors for over nine years but now the much loved eco-building needs to revamp its energy and water systems. The earthship was designed and built by the Low Carbon Trust in 2006 as a model low carbon community centre for courses and school visits.

  13. Low Carbon Trust

    Welcome to the Low Carbon Trust and the home of Earthship Brighton. We are a not-for-profit organisation formed in 2001 to set up, manage and promote environmental projects. You can get updates on Earthship Brighton and our projects by subscribing to our newsletter ' Low Carbon News '. Please support our work by donating below (scroll down to ...

  14. Earthship Brighton tour

    Earthship Brighton tour. by . Filed Under: Courses and Events. For more information: ... "Showing, teaching, practising sustainable ecological design" Brighton Permaculture Trust · Charitable company registered in England & Wales · Charity number 1150808 · Company number 4072259. Sign in to your account. Username. Password. Remember Me. Lost ...

  15. Earthship Brighton

    Earthship Brighton. Earthship Brighton was the first Earthship to be built in England and pioneered in Earthship building in the UK. As such, it was an experiment, and many lessons were learnt along the way. It is not a residential building but an educational one, and Brighton Permaculture Trust has used it as a venue for many of its courses.

  16. Brighton Festival

    Brighton Festival. DATE. 4-26 May 2024. Show times: Performances start at 2pm and 7pm. Show duration: 120 minutes. Price: £25 per person including 3-course meal. Set against the UK's first Earthship, Ground will have its world premiere at Brighton Festival in May 2024. Featured on Grand Designs, Earthship Brighton is a pioneering off grid ...

  17. Way Off The Grid: 6 Earthships That You Should Know

    Designing Walking Tours With Hadley Meares. ... Built in 2007 by Earthship Biotecture and the Low Carbon Trust, the Brighton Earthship, one of only two in the U.K., ...

  18. Self-building an Earthship

    Self-building an Earthship. 2024 courses: Friday 12 - Sunday 14 July 2024. Friday 11 - Sunday 13 October 2024. This course runs from 9am to 5.30pm at Earthship Brighton, Stanmer Park, Brighton. This course is for anyone thinking about building their own home and anyone interested in learning about Earthships. Includes practical workshops.

  19. Earthships

    The following sections are a brief guide to the various systems of the Earthship and the Earthship Brighton project. To get a more detailed explanation either visit Earthship Brighton for one of our regular tours or read 'Earthships in Europe'. To continue the online tour click here. Earthship Brighton. Earthship Brighton;

  20. Brighton Earthship

    Brighton Earthship — Six Inches of Soil. Back to All Events. Friday, 14 June 2024. 19:30 22:00. Lewes Road Brighton, BN1 9PZ (map)

  21. Private tours

    For example we could focus on renewable energy or help you or your group to develop its own sustainable community project. The cost for a standard group tour is £7.50 per individual or £10.00 per professional, local authority, regional or national government person. Please note there is a minimum charge of £125.00 per private group tour.