Article by Alix Woolsey, Earthship Commando Squad Refreshing and sweet, the pink watermelon juice trickles down our filthy arms. The juice quenches our thirst while our hot and tired bodies appreciate the break. We are spending our last hours at the site where we've spent the past six days digging, pounding, shoveling and plastering. It's hot and dry outside. Inside, the space is cool and humid.
Light infuses the room from above through a large central skylight, which also provides ventilation.
Women and men in suits and where dress shirts ask questions and talk with the crew. Instructors in maroon lab coats accompany their classes of men in white shirts and blue pants. Some of them are devouring the watermelon too. The Hut Earthship is earthquake proof and hurricane resistant. The Hut Earthship offers quick and immediate shelter that is strong and easy to build, catching water from the sky and providing clean water for the inhabitant.