Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the ...

VINES is growing in Binghamton, and setting a new industry standard for green construction in the process. VINES — Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc. — set the first straw bale at ...

Richard Venberg owned a custom furniture/cabinet shop in Colorado when he took a major step toward becoming an architect and one of Minnesota’s leading advocates of straw-bale construction. “Basically ...

A time-honored method of construction will find new expression as a Columbia building company shows off its home built of prefabricated straw bale panels. The house, which its builders believe is the ...

If this sounds a little like it was pulled from a top ten list of icebreakers for tree huggers, it’s probably because it was the one architect Dylan Johnson used to kick off a conversation he had with ...

Near Hudson, N.Y., a Princeton University team erected a cottage made from the agricultural byproduct, which they said is more sustainable than bricks or concrete.

When Mike Evans and his colleagues at the Tree of Life Nursery near San Juan Capistrano, Calif., began constructing some of their buildings in straw more than 10 years ago, they had good reasons: · ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A time-honored method of construction will find new expression as a Columbia building company shows off its home built of ...