A Montana couple who built a home from clay and straw brings to mind “The Three Little Pigs” fairytale. But Daniel and Katherine Ray, the ambitious and frugal home builders, are not interested in ...

Miguel Elliott, founder of Living Earth Structures and a longtime resident of Petaluma, moved to Maui last fall after the devastating fires there, with the intention of sharing his knowledge of ...

VICTOR, Mont. — A couple in Victor is living a lifestyle created by their own hands, and now they’re teaching others how to do it themselves. Their home is on the grid, gets its water from a well and ...

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Do you find yourself staring at concrete walls, daydreaming about an idyllic life close to nature? Does the sight of drywall make you want to pack your bags, lock the door, and run off into the forest ...

Miguel Elliott still recalls walking through the Rancho Petaluma Adobe on a fourth grade field trip. “It was a super-hot day but it was cool within the structured earth walls of the fort and I thought ...

Teach yourself how to build a plastic bottle house with cob and transform trash into a home. I build houses out of trash. I was inspired by the life of Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangarĩ Maathai, who said, ...

Fifteen students from the United States, Mexico and Europe have paid to camp out for a month in a man’s backyard in Taylor to learn an ancient building technique involving clay, sand and straw. They ...

GREENWICH — Ask anyone from Cos Cob what’s going on in the neighborhood lately and new housing construction will probably be mentioned near top of the list. After a mini-building boom in recent years, ...

As part of our Building with Cob series, we've put together an overview of cob and other traditional earthen building materials used around the world, including adobe and rammed earth. Building with ...

Probably. But be prepared to make the city planners your new best friends. Steve Pfeiffer, engineering and technical codes manager for Seattle's Department of Planning and Development, said cob falls ...