Earthships are the answer......

Earthships are zero-carbon, food-producing, rainwater-catching and-cleaning, off-the-grid (solar and wind energy) buildings made out of recycled materials. Inventor Michael Reynolds, who created the term “biotecture” to describe architecture that works with living systems, has been fine-tuning his Earthship models for the past forty years. To date, he has built over 1,000 of them.