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Blue Rock Station

My 2023 Internship at Blue Rock Station

I had been an intern at Blue Rock Station (BRS) for four weeks in the summer of 2022, that was my first experience living here and learning what it meant to be sustainable in more ways than one. After enjoying

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Is Joe Manchin killing a clean energy bill that probably should die?

October 28, 2021 – Jay Warmke There has been a lot of talk in the media lately about how Joe Manchin is trying to destroy the environment by killing the “clean electricity” provision in the reconciliation bill before the Senate.

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39 Years and Counting…

39 Years and Counting…

The news is full of examples of how people fail at communicating with one another. The global pandemic drags on and even intensifies. Hundreds of thousands march in the streets. Our political system appears disconnected and uncaring. And I hear

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An Almost Unbelievable Story

This almost unbelievable story begins with the rain that has robbed the pastures, and then the hay of nutrition and minerals. That abundance of rain has created a domino effect – low nutrition hiding in the form of a lush-looking

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How about something positive for a change?

Are we having fun yet? At the risk of sounding trite this article focuses on common sense ideas for self-care and using the time that self-quarantine creates. Practicing social distancing and self-quarantine is vital to how the virus spreads and

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Solar Generator Class Held in Columbus, Helps Asylum Seeker

Blue Rock Station held a solar generator class on February 8th. Aside from teaching students the concepts and techniques needed to build a small solar generator, the event also helped raise some funds to assist Miriam Vargas, a 41-year-old immigrant

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Pregnant Goats Hiding From Hunters – News from Blue Rock Station

December News from Blue Rock Station: It’s time for our annual vacation from consumption; “Thanks for Nothing” season.   On December 1st we began our sixth year of spending four months on a holiday from consumption.  No shopping for anything. Watch

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Goodbye to Helen and Lily

November News from Blue Rock Station: Pigs. They are a surprising joy in my life here at Blue Rock Station. Over the past decade we’ve had the company, assistance and friendship of 10 intelligent hard working pigs that brought laughter –

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Earth Plastering Techniques

https://youtu.be/bRGdUwokIew

Composting Toilet

https://youtu.be/FFcfT2xB6uc

Earthship Roofs in Winter

https://youtu.be/QbLpgv9c-aE

Converting Cistern to Root Cellar

https://youtu.be/nXs_1I5DkNU

Sustainable, Non-Polluting Laundry Ideas

https://youtu.be/Kr4dGnuFR2A

Kitchen Waste Composting

https://youtu.be/S6w4pPkXTY4

Eating Simply and Sustainably

https://youtu.be/x7DLiIO9cyo

Earthship Wetlands

https://youtu.be/SR0owcFirdw

When the biomass hits the wind turbine book

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The unvarnished past, present and future of energy, from 1492 to today.

Learn how early innovations in energy came largely due to man’s pursuit of beer. How Benjamin Franklin nearly killed himself electrocuting turkeys. How an Italian scientist believed he discovered the human soul while making frog leg soup for his girlfriend – which ultimately lead to the invention of the battery. And much, much more

Earthship Podcasts:

All episodes of our radio show/podcast can be found at When the BioMass Hits the Wind Turbine…

Below are a few that relate directly to Earthships:

Episode 1 – Living in an Earthship

Episode 15 – Why We Built an Earthship

Episode 33 – Net Zero Lifestyle

Episode 39 – Regulations Around Sustainability  – Water, Shelter Issues

Episode 52 – Reclaiming Building Materials

Episode 130 – Buying Land

Episode 131 – Sustainable Utilities

Episode 132 – Earthship FAQs

Episode 135 – More Earthship FAQs

About Blue Rock Station

In 1993, Jay and Annie Warmke founded Blue Rock Station, a 40-acre sustainability center located in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in southeastern Ohio.

The center features the first earthship built east of the Mississippi River, and is a living laboratory to test and demonstrate sustainable living concepts and options.

Since 2004 over 35,000 people have visited Blue Rock Station.

More about Blue Rock Station…

Find Us

Address
Blue Rock Station, LLC
1190 Virginia Ridge Road
Philo, OH  43771

Phone
740-674-4300

Hours

Open only for specific events/classes or by appointment – not open to the general public.  This is a private residence – so please don’t just pop by for a visit without having made arrangements ahead of time.

RSS When the BioMass Hits the Wind Turbine

  • 174 - Money Available to Install Solar on your Home or Business
  • 173 - Reimagining Appalachia
  • 172 - End of the Age of Fossil Fuels
  • 171 - Creatively Funding your Homestead
  • 129 – Transitioning Towards Living Sustainably

Podcast Videos

https://youtu.be/Z2fON8HqjsI
https://youtu.be/Z47P4WdhXCk
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