First, start with a rich parent, a trust fund, dreadlocks, a trip to Thailand and and overwhelming desire to tell people how it changed your outlook on life

So many good books spring to mind.

Maybe my favorite because of it’s simplicity is the simple solar cabin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qghZ2ao7GKM&t=124

His book tells you in detail how to build the cabin start to finish: simple solar homesteading by lamar alexander

I can’t remember which straw bale house book is the best, but I’ve never met one I didn’t like.

Larry angell’s sweat equity is a good book.

I haven’t read earthship specific books, but underground house books are also always an amazing read. Super low cost/footprint, as large as you want, easy to build, stable, temp-consistent