sustainable homes<\/a>. Instead, Rodger, myself, and a friend of mine have scoured Montana looking for bits and pieces that can all be unified to build the whole. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThere are all sorts of designs that have been boasted as the ideal Earthship style. The original architect, Michael Reynolds, believed in building oblong, strange formations that looked less like a home and more like a biological preserve. His core ideology focused on the natural world being one of imperfection and change, versus the finely tuned structures most people call home today. This is how Rodger imagined his home to look. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In the early months I would talk with Rodger about faster ways to make his dream a reality. A contractor’s job is often to help the client\u2019s expectations come down to Earth. With Rodger, that was an impossible task. He had fought in the Vietnam war, he had been an iron worker in South Dakota, and he had worked at a slaughterhouse for twenty-seven years. The man had seen much and more, he had fought, struggled, and lost. I learned a few months into working that Rodger\u2019s wife, Meredith, had suddenly died three years ago. Shortly after we had our first phone call. In that moment his dreams of a home they could share were dashed. It took him three years to pick up the phone and call me again. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Almost Built:<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
We\u2019re now about two months away from finishing the house. It looks like no other house in Bozeman, Montana but it\u2019s perfect. Its strange formation somehow feels more human than any other house I\u2019ve ever built. Its solar paneled exterior will bring in enough energy to pay the monthly bill. The water filtration system will help preserve hundreds of gallons of water each year. The garbage management routine will cut carbon emissions to nothing. And there Rodger will be, nestled inside, living in the Earthship of his dreams. There aren\u2019t any other houses on the road where we built Rodger\u2019s house, so he was able to give it a name. Next time you come to Montana, make sure you stop by Meredith Lane to see the strangest house in the world. <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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