Timeline now

• June 2008 The Low Carbon Trust start Eco Open Houses, in collaboration with Brighton & Hove City Council and Brighton Permaculture Trust, one of the first eco open-door events in the UK, attracting 2,500 visitors
• June 2009 The Low Carbon Trust launch the ‘Self-building an Earthship’ course', the only one of its kind in the world
• Spring 2010 The Low Carbon Trust launch two further green building courses at the Earthship Brighton, ‘Introduction to Photovoltaics’ and ‘Building with Rammed Earth and Chalk’
• June 2010 Earthship Brighton is awarded The Argus Eco Award for Greenest Building in Sussex
• April 2011 The Low Carbon Trust launches a ‘Building with Strawbales’ course at Brighton Earthship
• November 2011 Earthship Brighton receives its 15,000th visitor
• February 2012 ‘Earthships in Europe’ by IHS BRE Press is published. The book charts the building of the first Earthships in Europe.
• September 2013 20,000 visitors have been to visit Earthship Brighton.

To find out more, either visit Earthship Brighton in person for one of our regular tours or read Earthships in Europe.