The art of sustainable living
Inspired by Earthships, backed by conservation science
The Rossienda is the home and research space for Elizabeth and Jeremy Ross. With combined backgrounds in education, visual arts, nonprofit management, and applied research in conservation, these life partners test, improve, and live with established approaches to living sustainability.
Harvesting Building Materials
Why dispose of materials that can be repurposed for other needs around the house? For this project we milled lumber from winter-killed pine trees on our property and have used gravel-filled tires to provide a stable base for shed steps.
Brightening interior walls with repurposed stained glass
Glass is a durable material that has become, unfortunately, harder to recycle as the economics of transport have become prohibitively expensive. We have adopted the Earthship approach of creating glass “bottle bricks” for integration into walls, and are retrofitting traditional sheetrock walls inside residences with appealing and structurally-sound designs.
Drought-proof pollinator gardens
Conservation of pollinators starts with the plants that feed them. In times of drought, the prairies may be devoid of flowers, as plants are forced to conserve resources by foregoing reproduction so they can survive until conditions improve.
This project focuses on retrofitting a traditional septic and leach field system to divert the liquid effluent to supply a continuous water supply to a contained garden of beautiful flowering plants.
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— the Earth
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
jeremy@rossienda.org