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People Build It
December 2007
Living happily ever after on a tree house!
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
UDAIPUR: You could call it a castle in the air - except that a three-storey, fibre glass tree house really exists here. And the man who built it has been ...
A first for Milwaukee - a house built of straw
89.7 WUWM - Milwaukee Public Radio - WI, USA
That's where "straw bale construction" is being used. Myles Saigh heads the project. He was in the middle of teaching people the nuances of the building ...
Earthship in Spain
By Adrian Windisch(Adrian Windisch)
The Underground House Website of a low energy underground house in Cumbria with drawings and construction details www.theundergroundhouse.org.uk/ The Round House Brithdir Mawr, a community in West Wales, has many experimental dwellings, ...
Earthship Biotecture
By Scot Gresham-Lancaster(Scot Gresham-Lancaster)
I have become very interested in these new types of self sustaining structures. Made of rammed earth in tires, they are self sustaining stuctures. Check out this video to get the idea, and click on this banner to go to the site ...
[papercreters] Keeley Meagan's For love of Mud article
By Papercreters(Papercreters)
average of 1 inch every 20 years (per Adobe & Rammed Earth Building Design and Construction by Paul Graham McHenry Jr.), so a few inches should last decades. Cedar Rose has found that house design, the plaster mix, and application ...
Industry spurns green building technique
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
John Novotny, a Melbourne resident, has developed a very simple and innovative method of rammed earth construction that results in houses massively cheaper
Free Spirit Spheres: The Ultimate Tree House
Product Reviews - London,UK
If you're looking for a truly spectacular tree house, then this Ewok-style tree house is definitely for you. Designed by Canadian carpenter Tom Chudleigh, ...
Foundations and Fantasy
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Many of them are in the process of creating a country-style dream home. For one Ontario couple, that home uses straw-bale construction.
Builder tacks on solid green label
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
The result — Pima County's first certified "silver" LEED home — is not a straw-bale bungalow with a bus stop nearby. It's a stick-and-stucco house with 4000 ...
A garden resistant to fire
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
The house itself is fire-resistant, built in a rammed earth process known as pisé with 18-inch walls and concrete shingles. Erik Jones of Garden Escapes ...
Friends of the
ic Wales - United Kingdom
... 2002 she built an eco-friendly home from straw bales – the first load-bearing two-floor straw bale house in Britain – in St Dogmael's in Pembrokeshire. ...
Coventry electrician plans region's first eco-friendly underground ...
ic Coventry - Coventry,UK
By Warren Manger COVENTRY electrician Stuart Worley is on a mission - to build one of the region's first eco-friendly underground homes. The 39-year-old, ...
November 2007
Rammed home
Ferntree Gully, Belgrave Mail - Pakenham,Victoria,Australia
... the patented cement shell included in the Novoram system gives it superior stability to established methods of rammed earth construction. ...
Good to be green
Oxford Mail - Oxford,England,UK
The houses include ex-council houses, newly built straw-bale houses and Victorian semi-detached townhouses. George Marshall, co-ordinator of the event, ...
House of straw is stronger than you think
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The gas bill for heating her central Tempe home in the winter typically is less than $30. Hoffmann lives in a straw-bale house and says its energy ...
No meters here
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
Lydia Hawkes, a nurse at Valley Regional Hospital, has dreamed about living off the grid since the energy crisis of the 1970s. She was 18, and President ...
Zero House From the Future is Totally Green, Off-Grid
Gizmodo.com - USA
In my opinion, that's the whole point of being "off-grid"; you can be "away from the grid" too. So, if you have no neighbors, who cares what they think of ...
The Complexities of Keeping It Small and Simple
New York Times - United States
... the cedar deck and walkway, also help absorb rainwater while screen-covered inserts in the concrete storage units allow floodwater to flow in and out. ...
Solar Power For Homes
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
As you become more experienced with solar panels and the technology you can start to move towards and off grid solution. The crux of going off grid is that
Design of the Times: The zeroHouse goes way, way off-grid
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Breaking many existing notions about off-grid housing, Specht has created a home that maintains its autonomy while providing luxuries such as ...
The green home goes underground
Times Online - UK
BEETLEBANK, Earwig Green, does not sound the most attractive of addresses. But down a narrow, hedge-lined lane in the Weald of Kent, where half-timbered, ...
Seized 'Pot Cave' Goes Up for Auction in Tennessee ... Marijuana ...
FOX News - USA
AP An auction sign hangs on the fence outside the 'pot cave' house near Hartsville, Tenn. HARTSVILLE, Tenn. — An auctioneer in Lafayette expects a lot more ...
Bamboo living comes to Kaua'i
Lihue Garden Island - Lihue,HI,USA
by Rachel Gehrlein - THE GARDEN ISLAND Ever dream of living in a tree house? For Dr. Kat Van Kirk, who owns a bamboo home in Kapa'a, that dream has become a ...
Slideshow: The Fisher home and design philosophy
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
At our house, we incorporated earth-sheltered construction, radiant floor panels, low-flow toilets, high-efficiency water heaters, Energy Star-rated ...
How to Build a House With Bales of Straw
Voice of America - USA
One of the workshops is called Straw Bale Comprehensive. It is for people who are seriously considering building a home out of straw bales and want to do ...
October 2007
Beautifully energy-efficient
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
For proof, look no further than the couple's carefully planned rammed-earth home on the West Side, where solar panels, solar water heaters, low-water-use ...
Student-built dream home was affordable for couple
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
The program used student labor and innovative design to deliver the Perezes a new 1400-square-foot, rammed-earth and steel-frame home with a $118000 ...
Tour shows 'green' homes, buildings
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
An earth-sheltered dome, the Sexson residence, in Fountain Hills. • A remodeled 1960s home, the Garrett residence near Pima and Indian Bend roads that ...
Home tour offers something unique
Edwardsville Intelligencer - Edwardsville,IL,USA
Proponents of earth-sheltered homes claim that homeowners can cut heating and cooling costs by up to 50 percent and can save tens of thousands of dollars ...
Building their nest in a 'tree house'
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA
They wanted a "tree house" - a place where they could live in the midst of a woodland. "We looked all over Anne Arundel County for the right spot," said ...
'Teletubbies' homes to act as magnet for children
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,England,UK
Mr Quarmby, who built the country's first earth shelter near Huddersfield in 1975, said: "We are entirely in the hands of the planning committee.
Raising the roof for green energy
Brooklyn Papers - Brooklyn,NY,USA
By Dana Rubinstein The green roof design included a solar-panel-covered canopy that would be visible from the street. Recipients' email addresses (Up to ten ...
Environmentally-Friendly Earth Homes
Rammed earth homes may have over 18-inch, thick walls that are made from a comcination of dirt, sand, cement and water. Energy conservative, rammed earth homes have the appearance of bungalow-style charm and help keep the house warm in
A sturdy house just needs the earth under your feet
ABC Regional Online - Australia
"Earth houses breathe with you," he says, "And they don't crack and break up. They're alive, they work." Bob specialises in repairing old buildings. ...
Tree houses grow into luxury space
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
The conference included workshops in advanced rigging, discussions on an international tree house code and registry, and presentations by industry experts, ...
A straw house: It's only natural
Seattle Times - United States
Petrick is an energetic promoter of using building blocks made of mortar and recycled Styrofoam or wood fiber, making homes of rammed earth, ...
Residents roll out green welcome mat
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
... water-efficient design and straw-bale construction. After years of study, the Moris designed and built their own two-story Colonial. The home includes a ...
Mission Impregnable as Tom builds alien bunker
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
According to several mags this week, Cruise is building an "$11 million luxury underground bunker" at his property in Colorado so his family can survive an ...
Missile base on sale as ideal home
BBC News - UK
A former US intercontinental ballistic missile base - with a network of underground tunnels and silos, but no nuclear warheads - is on sale on eBay for ...
Is this Britain's greenest house?
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... approval to construct a mixed tenure residential and commercial village, using and testing all renewable materials such as rammed earth and straw bales. ...
Domes bound for Dawson?
Corsicana Daily Sun - Corsicana,TX,USA
The project's purpose, according to David South, president of the Monolithic Dome Institute in Italy in neighboring Ellis County, is to provide affordable, ...
Officlals hope domes keep Licking ticking
Disaster News Network - USA
BY PJ HELLER | NEWARK, Ohio | September 27, 2007 A monolithic dome offers some protection against common problems associated with flooding such as mold, ...
Live Well. Buy Well. Sell Well... One Household at a Time
Market Wire (press release) - USA
New Mexicans have a reputation for experimenting with rammed earth houses, straw bale construction, tire walls, and Rastra® (a lightweight insulated polymer ...
Straw bale auction rooms nearing completion
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
... amazonails tradition in which people wanting to build their own straw bale home learn while they build, under instruction from experts from amazonails.
Going green, feeding into the grid
Daily Inter Lake - Kalispell,MT,USA
Rick Stern and Val Edwards own the home, which combines passive solar heating, solar panels and straw bale insulation. Stern once directed the Missoula ...
September
Most dependable building material
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
Rammed earth, adobe and cob are some of the options for earthen structures. In all these forms, mixing clay, sand, straw and dung forms the natural building ...
Biosphere open house to include plans to build in park
Parksville Qualicum News - BC, Canada
Rammed earth construction and the potential for environmentally friendly LEED certification are being looked at but MacDonald cautioned there are upfront ...
A 'non'-mountain home
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno,NV,USA
A "rammed earth" landscaping wall unites compacted cement and soil excavated from the site; the blend reduces the need to import concrete. ...
Hot property: a spacious missile base as your new home
AFP -
US intercontinental ballistic missile base, equipped with a vast underground network of tunnels and rooms but no atomic warheads, is for sale in a remote ...
REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Do your part: Clean living and clear ...
The Hook - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... could be tricky (but not impossible), as one would have to work around the air system and pumps that control the well and the rainwater storage tank
Is this the house of tomorrow?
CIOB International News - Ascot,Berkshire,UK
The houses are built by inflating a membrane to the shape of a dome and spraying two layers glass-fibre reinforced concrete (GRC) with a layer of ...
Breaking the code: when minimum is just that Globe and Mail - Canada
What if you wanted to build a straw bale house? Or a steel house? What if you had a breakthrough idea that could make building a house better and cheaper ...
How do we build a green extension?
The Observer - UK
While you should not expect to find fleets of eco builders waiting to chat through plans for a straw bale extension, the Sustainable Building Association ...
Couple selling cave home carved into mountains near Bisbee Living ...
Casa Grande Valley Newspapers - Casa Grande,AZ,USA
By TOM BEAL, Arizona Daily Star TUCSON (AP) - Cathy Wertz and Randy Clark were camped outside Bisbee, trying to figure out how to build a home without ...
In other planets, what would our homes look like?
Earth & Sky - Austin,TX,USA
He believes that any family should be able to build itself a home by using the Earth's natural resources and simple techniques. His philosophy of "working ...
Going green to the extreme
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
He and Jenna are a pair of newly married environmentalists who live "off the grid" in a 1200-square-foot home on 40 acres of land in Cooper County.
A new London underground
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Now, you can't help but sense, he feels redeemed by the completion of St Marylebone School, a modest public project of the highest order, and one so hidden ...
Small wonder
Times Online - UK
In Hampstead, 27A Redington Road is a new-build with sheep's-wool insulation and rainwater storage. Minimalist purists: Garden House, on Haverstock Hill,
Architect-designed: The Kiwi tree-house
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
This, essentially, is a light and airy urban tree-house measuring just over 1100 sq ft, where you get treetop views from the upper floors over the huge ash ...
Home is where the heart is
Bendigo Weekly - Bendigo,Victoria,Australia
Brian the reasons for wanting a straw bale home are many but saving on costs if often a big one. 'If you got a normal builder to built it, it would actually ...
Why build a house made of straw in Skagit County?
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
Finished in 1997, the Guemes Island home of Jerry and Constance Frelix was the first code-approved straw-bale home to be built in Skagit County.
Homeowners 'going underground'
Safestore.co.uk - UK
According to basement building specialist CellarWise, the practice of converting an underground area into living space is already well-established in the ...
Digging deep to carve out extra living space
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... thus easing the pressure on green space; they also reduce energy demands because, as earth-sheltered spaces, they absorb warmth from the ground. ...
Foxtons owner plans multi-million pound underground extension to ...
Daily Mail - UK
As well as a tennis court, pool and gym, the underground extension will also include a private "motor museum", accessed from the road through a special ramp ...
Mud: building block of the future
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
There's nothing new about rammed earth walls, for example. Ancient cob cottages built by labourers trampling mud and straw have survived for hundreds of ...
Tree house causes a stir
Express & Star - Wolverhampton,West Midlands,UK
A children's tree house built by their grandfather has caused a stir between neighbours in a smart Black Country street after council officers said it ...
August 2007
i'm cool, connected and living in a cave.
By Les Edwards
A cave house had been my home for nearly five years and I can't imagine living in any other type of home! My cool cave can be found in the beautiful village of Galera in the Granada Province of Spain.I can almost guess what you are
Straw bale home going up in Old Town
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
But potential homeowners will likely run into problems when it comes time to insure their straw bale home. Merten said the homes are appraised just like any ...
The quake-proof house made of straw
CNN - USA
Far from leaving him vulnerable to the Big Bad Wolf, Smedt's 'straw-bale' home protects him and his family from cold winter nights, the hot summer sun ...
Advantages by the baleful
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
The Lamy home has zero lot lines and shares a common wall with another straw bale home of similar design. The community center for the development is also ...
Straw Finds Niche as Eco-Friendly Building Material
Washington Post - United States
Last week, as workers were completing projects at a city building in Bowie and a school in College Park, straw-bale fans said the "Three Little Pigs" story ...
The house that hemp built
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Drew and Jaime Rokeby-Thomas had the property, builder, designer and finances lined up for construction of their straw-bale home on BC's Saltspring Island. ...
Work under way on eco home
Stamford Mercury - Stamford,England,UK
They left their four bedroom home in Queen Street, Stamford, after getting permission to build one of only 33 earth sheltered homes in the country. ...
The Earthships Have Landed
Southern Housing - UK
Like its literary counterpart, the Underground House can offer much the same bourgeois comforts as any respectable Baggins might expect. ...
Rammed Earth Homes With SIREWALLs from Terra Firma Builders Ltd.
By John Commoner(John Commoner)
I've admired rammed earth homes for a long time, even though they're not really appropriate for the climate I live in. It's just that rammed earth walls are mesmerizing to look at. I get lost staring at the different layers of soil, ...
Those in straw houses ...
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
Architect Ben Obregon built his home in Bee Cave using the age-old building material. The 18-inch-thick walls are covered with stucco on the exterior and ...
Willows builder harvests success using rice straw
Mercury-Register - Oroville,CA,USA
At his spacious country home, Green talked early Friday about the project, the safety of straw bale buildings and how rammed earth is made. ...
Castles made of sand and (and straw)
Ventura County Reporter - Ventura,CA,USA
Some options include earth bags, polypropylene bags filled with earth that can be stacked to form walls; rammed earth, mechanically compressed gravel, ...
Over the moon
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
As the balloon hovers some distance from Urgup, we can make out the snug little cave house where we're staying. Converted from a natural cave in 1996, ...
Homes sweet homes -- University of Utah architecture students ...
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
And the DesignBuild collaboration will become more well-known soon, when Dwell magazine includes the Rosie Joe house in its "living off the grid" issue. ...
Earthships: Live off the grid
USA Today - USA
That's because earthships are specifically designed to be comfortable in any climate even as they're entirely off the grid and made using a healthy supply
Could Earthships be the future of housing?
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
An Earthship is an entirely off-the-grid, fully-sustainable house that can keep a steady inside temperature regardless of how hot or cold it is outside. ...
Green Modular Home To Be Constructed In San Francisco's Civic ...
Environmental News Network (press release) - San Rafael,CA,USA
... the mkLotus TM will be constructed using sustainable materials and will include features such as its green "living roof", an integrated solar array, ...
House's design keeps it cool
Potomac News (subscription) - Woodbridge,VA,USA
By LILLIAN KAFKA The air conditioner was set to the "off" position in Sherry Swensen's earth-sheltered home, yet the temperature remained a comfortable 75 ...
££The ultimate beach read: Holiday homes from 15000 to 200000
Independent - London,England,UK
Marrakech has become one of the hottest, hippest cities to own in, yet still retains all the mystery and exoticism that's attracted visitors for centuries. ...
£'Hobbit' land goes under hammer for 290000
Halifax Today - UK
The 30 earth-sheltered holiday cottages were to be built into the hillside but planners decided they were inappropriate. As well as representations from the ...
Big Picture: Earth Home Cuts Energy Costs
NTV - Kearney,NE,USA
Earth homes are built right into a hill. Minna Newbold said of her earth home, "It was a hill, and he dug the dirt out, and then they came in and put ...
How to build a rammed earth house
Preparing the right kind of soil, a proper foundation, good walls and the best finishing is the way to build a rammed earth house. Back in the 40's I was considered an oddball. I wore a beard--revoluti...
No trees? No problem
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
They spent months searching for the perfect trees for building a tree house in the ravine by their Sylvania home, with no success. ...
July 2007
Aussie Hotspot - Mutton Falls Not Much Chop for Bushrangers
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
... walls were made of 'pise' (rammed earth) covered with two-score colour schemes and countless layers of wallpaper, and under the floorboards a horde of ...
DOME OF A HOME
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
Now, they are well on their way to building the two-story dome of their dreams on their eight acres in Parrish. Known as a monolithic dome, the 60-foot-wide ...
Building a $30 million tree house
City Pulse - Lansing,MI,USA
We don't know yet who will design MSU's $30 million Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, but one of the blue-ribbon jurors who met to select a plan last week ...
The East Hampton Star
East Hampton Star - NY, USA
The north and east sides of the house are "earth-sheltered," Mr. Stromsten said, "which gives you a lot less to fight against, so to speak
A home filled with light
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
Nestled deep in a rocky hillside in Evans Valley, the underground home of Kathi Sherrill and her partner Pam Buss Sherrill surprises the senses. .
Rock house
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
"How many people can actually say they own a cave house?" he was quoted as saying by Britain's top-selling tabloid, The Sun. Seven years ago, a similar home ...
Me Tarzan, him estate agent wanting a sale
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
And no £20 million townhouse in Notting Hill or Kensington has tickled my fancy as much as the "cave house" which has come up for auction in Worcestershire. ...
The ultimate tree house
Decatur Daily Democrat - Decatur,IN,USA
By LIBBIE ADAMS Every kid in America must dream of owning his own special tree house, but surely none has ever envisioned anything quite like Jay Gould has ...
An evergreen fantasy - for grown-ups
The Observer - UK
The treehouse is as popular as ever, but nowadays the kids don't get a look in. By Gareth Rubin It's an alarming affair, crossing the rope bridge from the ...
Historic house opens at Howe Caverns
Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA
Now a museum called Cave House, this building is expected to draw guests from around the world. But, many of those guests wonder why Howe put it here. ...
Realty Takes
Hamptons Independents - The Hamptons,NY,USA
After thanking her, we wrote back to Diana: On Cedar Street close to Stephen Hand's Path in East Hampton, just such an "underground house" was built back in
Off-the-wall homes at up-the-wall prices
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
But if all goes to plan, the Earthship housing scheme approved on a prime 1.1-hectare site overlooking Brighton marina is property development with a ...
'Hobbit' homes site up for sale
Halifax Today - UK
By Michael Peel A DEVELOPER who was refused permission to build 30 earth-sheltered holiday cottages on a picturesque hillside hopes to sell the land at ...
Spare $48 Million? Buy Oregon's Ochoco Ranch for the Underground
By Tom Chandler
I'm not saying that any of you exactly owe me anything for the daily brilliance here, but if an Undergrounder had a spare $48.5 million lying around and wanted the Trout Underground broadcasting from a nifty new World Headquarters, ...
A beau-treeful hideout
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA By Caroline Sedano Correspondent hen Eric Keck found a pile of free wood in Barre, he had no idea it would become a tree house that could entertain his four ...
When Building Green Ain't So Green
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
Rob Roy uses the groundbreaking ideas of architect Malcolm Wells to describe how to construct "earth-sheltered" homes. By building a house 6 to 8 feet below
Under the hammer - cave house to go on the market
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
Property hunters will be given a "rare opportunity" to get back to nature next week when a cave home goes up for auction. The aptly named Rock Cottage, ...
Earth-Sheltered Home Offers DC Area Buyers Chance to Join Green ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Earth-sheltered home in Northern Virginia offers buyers a chance to save big on energy costs year round. Manassas, VA (PRWEB) July 1, 2007 -- A unique ...
Scottsdale embraces a natural look
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
Cosanti includes a series of structures including the original "Earth House," which is partially underground and includes air holes for climate control. ...
June 2007
Eco-friendly house built on love for environment
Houston Chronicle - United States
Power- and water-saving devices, plus time spent wrangling with the municipality over the sewage system, have added about $65000 to the $300000 it cost to ...
£Buy this house and your fuel bills will be 9 per week Cambridgeshire Times - Stevenage,Herts,UK The father-of-three runs his business SEARCH Architects Sustainable Ecological Architecture from the site and is currently working on a major earth shelter ...
Derek Guille talks to Marcus Ward about building and designing ... ABC Regional Online - Australia Where 75mm of wall insulation is typical of most "5 star" homes, a strawbale house has a whopping 450mm of wall insulation!'
Dream Tree House Becomes A Reality
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
By Ashley Coleman JACKSONVILLE, FL -- From the third floor of the Hube family's tree house, you can see clear across the St. Johns River.
Green home dream moves on
Stamford Mercury - Stamford,England,UK
Phil and Charlotte Newby are planning to build one of only 33 'earth-sheltered homes' in the UK to live in with their daughters Jessica, two, and Sasha, ...
As demolition looms, scholar moves to preserve historic house on film
Stanford Report - USA The original walls of the Briones house consist of adobe framed by wood slats, an example of a rare construction technique known as "rammed earth." ...
10-story tree house devoted to religion
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Horace Burgess, seen in the sanctuary of his tree house, describes how he hauled the lumber a piece at a time to build "God's tree house" outside Crossville ...
'I'm happy' living underground
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
But Rounds, who lives in a secluded underground bunker he built in the northern part of Buffalo, doesn't look at himself that way. ...
Green's hot in market
Courier Mail - Australia
WANTED: eco-friendly home with solar heating, rainwater tanks, insulation and drought-proof gardens; will pay top dollar. Sustainable housing is in demand, ...
Buffalo Man Lives In Underground Bunker
KSDK - St. Louis,MO,USA
It took him about two years to dig the roughly 16-by-20 foot underground home. It's close to six-and-a-half feet deep. Rounds says he did it "with a bucket ...
May 2007
One-of-a-kind tree houses that really seem like home
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
While the life of a tree house builder has its charms -- travel, working outside, being creative -- it also is work, with deadline pressures and sore muscles ..
Private and picturesque
MCV - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
This stunning, quality rammed-earth home in a private location in Taggerty is only six years old, and boasts the majestic Cathedral Mountain as a backdrop, ...
Getting in on the (under)ground floor
Reporter-Times - Martinsville,IN,USA
Parasivam's home was designed by Terra-Dome Corp., a Missouri-based earth-sheltered building design company that is one of few that specialize in the design ...
Weekend Beat: Seeing the forest from the tree(house) Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo,Japan
BY MAYUMI SAITO, STAFF WRITER. Have you seen those two guys relaxing in what looks like a big birdhouse in a TV commercial for instant coffee? ...
Unique Native centre rises from desert
Daily Commercial News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada The largest “rammed” earth wall in North America is a key element in the award-winning Nk’Mip desert cultural centre in British Columbia’s south Okanagan ...
Eco-friendly and stylish, too
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA ... low- or zero-volatile organic compound interior paints and dual-flush toilets; two of the homes are built using rammed-earth construction and another
Students win design contest
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
Jessica Thomas, a second-year graduate student, has done extensive study in the use of rammed earth in desert areas, including Mesopotamia and America's ...
Living in a 'tree house'
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
GRANGER -- Jean Werntz says she feels as though she lives in a tree house. At first glance, that might seem an odd statement for a contemporary-style house, ...
£'Teletubbies' house goes on market for 2m
This is London - London,England,UK
"It is an intriguing contemporary house which embraces the ancient concept of earth-sheltered construction and the modern use of glass and steel," she said. ...
First Hybrid Energy Home in California
California Chronicle - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The thermal benefits of an underground house are transferred to an above-ground structure. This earth connection establishes a mild baseline, from which the ...
April
Empty Lot of Former "Underground House" To Be Sold
Memphis Flyer - Memphis,TN,USA
The property at the corner of Cowden and South McLean that for decades held what was called "The Underground House" goes on the auction block at Roebuck ...
French Earthship gets Planning Permission
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
The major structural component is recycled car tyres filled with compacted earth to form a rammed earth brick encased in steel belted rubber. ...
Wheels come off
Winnipeg Sun - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
Carey, who unveiled his plans for a rammed earth tire home made of one-million pounds of dirt and old tires in July 2006, said the RM of Woodlands council ...
Berm me up, Scotty
Colorado Springs Independent - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
Although the bales are half the density of rammed-earth tires, they're twice the thickness, yielding the same energy-saving results in a larger footprint. ...
Alternative techniques can save money on construction, utilities
Cortez Journal - Cortez,CO,USA
“It’sa rammed earth construction using tires as containers for the earth.” Sustainability was Patten’s motivation for choosing to build an Earth ship home. ...
Farmer's eco-home plan turned down
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
By Andy Chiles. A retired farmer's proposal to build Sussex's first "zero carbon" home has been refused by planning officers. ...
The Cave House
The Bulletin today has an article about the "cave house" for sale in southeast Bend. I'd heard about this before; KTVZ did a story on it some time back, too. Basically, the house was built over a lava tube cave, and has a door that .
180000 Buttery Brae by Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire
Country Life - UK
This incorporates glazed panels, to make the most of the views, retaining stonework and a turf and grass roof. Full planning consent was granted on 28 July ...
White Rock Home Tour and Art Festival to benefit Hexter Elementary ...
Pegasus News - Dallas,TX,USA
2001 N. Buckner Boulevard: The 4500 sq. ft. contemporary, earth sheltered (ie underground) home was built in 2000 by Architect Frank Moreland. ...
Inventor makes rotating eco-home
BBC News - UK
An inventor has designed a three-storey house on wheels that can revolve to follow the sun during the day. The £500000 environmentally-friendly home will ...
UNDERGROUND ECO HOUSE: Snowden House By Evelyn
... II goes further to include make the entire house a passive thermal store to help run the wet underfloor zoned heating system, a green roof, and makes full use of the stable temperature that comes naturally when building underground. ...
MONDAY MORNING SPECIAL
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA
I remembered that he’d planned to create an earth-sheltered home, but instead I saw a mass of brown concrete cubes, some with the little Pueblo sun logo on
We Live In A Cave Home!
Homes Worldwide - Bath,UK
Mick and Irene Lee wanted a Spanish holiday home that was a little different, and bought an Andalucia cave house. The Lee family, which includes 16-year-old ...
Take a fresh look at providing housing
Corvallis Gazette Times - Corvallis,OR,USA
What about solar-powered communities; underground havens marked by sunken courtyards with “roofs” of garden and forest and hidden garages? Fanciful? ...
Green home - a blue print for Seaton?
Midweek Herald - UK
WHEN Lesley and Robert Watson built their eco-home in Seaton, they didn't intend it to be a blueprint for future regeneration of the town. ...
Artist Grace Wolff seeks tree house builders
Comox Valley Record - Courtenay,British Columbia,Canada
Local artist Grace Wolff is looking for tree house builders and dwellers to talk with and hear their stories on the subject of tree dwelling.
Seminar to focus on household energy efficiency
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA
Callas, who is nearing completion of an underground home that thrives though off the electrical grid, discovered while building his home a vast wealth of ...
March
Westpacs Green Home Loans Welcomed
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
“We have a proud history of lending to eco-housing throughout New Zealand, including rammed-earth houses (such as at the Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood in ...
Sustainable house succeeds
Courier Mail - Australia
Other sustainable features of the home include three rainwater tanks – two 6000-litre tanks for the toilet and laundry and a 5000-litre tank for the garden ...
COUNCIL SNUBBED OUR GREEN
Woking News and Mail - Woking,Surrey,UK
He is also working on a rain harvesting system that can store up to 7000 litres of rainwater to be used in their washing machine and garden and to flush ...
Planning refused for earth sheltered home
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
One couple's dream of building an eco-friendly underground home in the garden of their parents' house is over after losing their appeal. .
Bizarre Georgia
Men's News Daily - Guerneville,CA,USA
“The first I built was a Geodesic dome and the rest are monolithic domes. Geodesic domes are Bucky Fuller’s triangle bolted together into pentagons and
Lord of the spring
News Shopper - UK
It is environmentally friendly, made entirely from natural or recycled materials with a grass roof, mud walls and straw insulation - for a grand total of ...
House made of straw and recycled steel: 'Eco-house' was green ...
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
They call it "Eco-house Walnut Creek." "We expect it should last 100 years, as long as we do the normal maintenance," said Joe, 67, as he walked through ...
Holiday village battle
Halifax Today - UK
"The proposed earth-sheltered accommodation scheme is innovative and exciting, demonstrating a commitment to the future of our environment and care of our ...
Couple vow to stay on unique homestead property
Campbell River Mirror - Campbell River,British Columbia,Canada
The root cellar is actually a 35-foot long former oil tank which buried four feet underground. The creosoted support beams were once part of the old Elk ...
The first luxury eco-house?
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
A Scottish housebuilding company has unveiled plans for a state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly home. Aberdeen-based Stewart Milne Group is developing ...
energy & environment
Tuck your home into a hillside to cut your heating and cooling bills, create weather and noise proof shelter, and blend the house harmoniously with the ...
Solar home lets in the sun
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA
Eco-Home:Julia Russell gives bimonthly tours of her Los Feliz Eco-Home as an example of sustainable urban living in Southern California.
Curious and committed learn at Wilderness Center event
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
By his description, his home is earth-bermed, super-insulated, passive solar (provides cooling and heating to keep the home comfortable without the use of ...
February 2007
Zero-carbon homes unveiled
This is Money - UK
Bath and shower water is reused for toilet flushing and water butts collect rainwater from the roof for watering the garden. ...
Students are consultants for creation of Eco House
Macalester College The Mac Weekly - St. Paul,MN,USA
The Eco House, designed to provide a sustainable living option for students and to serve as a way of educating the broader community about green remodeling ..
Home, Green Home
Hartford Courant - Hartford,CT,USA
The house even has a root cellar off the basement; an old-fashioned idea that still works, taking advantage of a place where temperatures are cool and vary ...
Elegant home: $1.6 million; pirate cave: priceless
St. George Daily Spectrum - St. George,UT,USA
By TIFFANY DE MASTERS. ST. GEORGE - While the upstairs maintains luxury, the downstairs turns into every child's dream house, said Keean Welch, ...
Orlando's eco home
FemaleFirst.co.uk - Ashton-in-Makerfield,Wigan,UK
The eco-conscious 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star revealed his plans at a pre-Oscar party in aid of the environmental organisation Global Green USA. ...
Bethany has clean record
Orange Bulletin - Orange,CT,USA
She said when she and her husband built their dream home in Bethany in the '80s they built a passive solar earth sheltered house and it worked. ...
Excerpt from I've Got a Home in Glory Land
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... and when archaeologists excavated the Blackburn home in 1985, its bricks were discovered tipped, domino fashion, into the handdug root cellar under the ...
GrandDame: Shaler house's details survived period as widows' home
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
There's also a root cellar under the back porch that opens directly onto the back yard. Situated on almost three-fourths of an acre dotted with mature sugar ...
More curator than house seller
Remote Access - White Plains,NY,USA
He also built a "root cellar" near the north wall, which has a sump pump. Davida restored the northern wall and fireplace chimney, which were in a state of ...
Down to Earth Homes
Earth sheltered homes cut heating and cooling bills create weather and noise proof shelter and blend in with the landscaping including comparing options ...
'Straw home woman' to build again
BBC News - UK
She had to battle with planners to build her first straw eco-home but was told she now had to reapply because it is only a temporary structure.
Unique Nassau home beckons a new owner
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
FERNANDINA BEACH - Long before television programs showed people living in everything from the side of a hill to a reclaimed missile silo, a Fernandina
"Umbrella House" design embraces Seattle gray
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
Roof overhangs: One of the more distinctive features of the home are the broad overhangs designed to extend the life of the home by pushing rainwater as far ...
Owner's New Bungalow to be Powered by Earth, Sun
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
By Brigid Schulte. To the naked eye, 9 E. Walnut Ave. in the Rosemont section of Alexandria is just a big, ugly hole and a pile of construction debris ...
GROUND BREAKING
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
Jasinski’s firm, Jasinski Architects International, has five earth-sheltered buildings in its portfolio, which also boasts more than 30 hotel projects ...
Description of the Mome
By The J Is Real(The J Is Real)
In modern times in which hills can be hard to come by, the building is made of a rammed earth system which is nothing more than dirt compressed with a bit of concrete and rebar. Women use this system of building because they are humble, ...
Proposed eco home could have royal resident
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
An eco-friendly house rumoured to be earmarked as the first home for Prince William and girlfriend Kate Middleton has been given planning permission. ...
My take on the energy situation
Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide - Bismarck,ND,USA
We could build earth-bermed houses, build wind turbines and use solar power. The main problem - as far as I could see it - was we didn't have enough money ...
January 2007
Potential for big cash savings in eco homes
Easier - Chester,UK
Something as simple as the inclusion of a water-butt in the garden to conserve and recycle rainwater makes a big difference given the increasing ...
Real estate notebook Sellers should be aware of new trends
ThisWeekNews - Columbus Area,OH,USA
Hidden garages, which were prevalent in the traditional American home, are starting to reemerge, and in the near future, underground garages may become
Legendary Cave House
By Alexandra
Many of you might have seen this cave house as it is spread all over the internet. A strange place to live in, a mixture of fantasy and reality, it is impossible not to remind us of the wonderful Flintstone Family’s House from ...
Affordable eco-homes - Testway Housing shows the way
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
Each house has a timber decked area and garden with storage space. Water butts are provided to store rainwater, which can then be used for the garden
The benefits of green building
Skagit County Business Pulse - Mount Vernon,WA,USA
Rob Staveland and Lance Illman, co-owners of Aiki Homes, had a vision to move beyond building green homes. Along with Marble Falls LCC of Bellingham, ...
Rethinking the suburban home Designer Gordana Pavlovic looks at ...
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
I tried to give it the feel of a tree house with great views and light streaming through." Now, upon entering the new 6000-square-foot house, visitors are
Follow The Trials of A 'Would Be' Eco House Builder
Response Source (press release) - London,UK
We are looking for a magazine or TV production company to follow the progress of a renovation project of a sixteenth century stone-built farm steading in an ...
Jeff Christian and the Zero-Energy House
WorldChanging - USA
At Oak Ridge we have tested over 400 walls, such as straw bale and rammed earth and we put them in an energy perspective context of how our other systems ...
Look, no carbon footprints!
Shetland Times - Lerwick,Scotland,UK
It is not a glass dome or an earth house but a typical modern house, with a front door in the middle and windows on either side. And now the roof is nearly ...
Solar Home in Va. Getting High Marks
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
Frank Wagner R-Virginia Beach, right, speaks during a news conference in front of the Virginia Tech Solar House at the Science Museum of Virginia in ...
HBA plans program for more green homes
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
All the green homes have been sold, and buyers are getting increasingly more interested in green homes, he said. "I've been building them busier than I have ...
Building Green Homes
EcoWorld.com - Fair Oaks,CA,USA
Green homes can use recycled steel for their beams, and also for a reflective metal rooftop that is lightweight and durable. Green homes can use bales of ...
Cliff-hanger artist now pins faith in house of straw
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
While there's a handful of other strawbale buildings in Yorkshire – including the Ecology Building Society meeting room, in Keighley – apparently none is
Eco-Living (And A Little Rant)
By Kim Carney
Article about Down to Earth Homes from Mother Earth News. A very expensive home built out of an old missile silo. Pre-fab by Weberhaus. KitHAUS K1 module from Prefab homes. Green roof tiles by Toyota Roof Garden. ...
Green technology hits home
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
HIGH FALLS, NY - Imagine a house warmed by the sun and insulated with recycled newsprint, with mirrored "solar tubes" bringing light to dark corners.
readily available resources
By Trevor Jordan(D)
The project below, designed by Christopher Chris PTY LTD Architecture, consists of many different colors and materials varying in texture that all collide in a rammed earth wall. The wall serves as a unifying element as well as major ...
the road away from hell
By Aaron
rammed earth house - a bit dark I thought, mind you it was so wet that day I couldn't tell where the sun was. A potter's house/work/shop/teaching facility under a ... Under construction, a combination of rammed earth and in-situ adobe. ...
Prince Charles Opens Several "Green" Homes In Poundbury
All Headline News - USA
Rainwater from the roof is collected to supply the communal garden and photovoltaic roof tiles provide one third of the annual electricity needed in the
Plan eases land cleanup rules
Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA
Once the underground water has been declared off limits for consumption, developers are freed from the most stringent requirements to investigate or ...
Cool Real Estate From The Cold War
Hartford Courant - Hartford,CT,USA
"There are a lot of dreamers out there," said Ed Peden, who lives underground in a converted Atlas missile silo near Topeka, Kan. "And these are very unique ...
Far & Away
Coastal Living - USA
Low-maintenance PVC gutters and pipes channel rainwater to buried cisterns that can hold 65000 gallons. A drip-irrigation system keeps the landscaping lush ...
National Master Naturalist Course Launches
E-Wire (press release) - Dallas,TX,USA
Institute headquarters is located in Myersville, MD in an earth-sheltered, passive solar structure with grass roof. Individuals can obtain additional ...
One man's dream of 'Free Heat'
Wyoming Tribune - Cheyenne,WY,USA
... him: Engineering technology instructor at Laramie County Community College. It was then that solar power began creeping into the national conversation.
Building from the ground up
USA Today - USA
A basement apartment has been transformed into two bedrooms with a wood stove, energy-efficient windows and a "living roof" of sod, strawberries and garden
Home into low-maintenance eco-friendly options
Financial Express - Bombay,India
Rainwater harvesting, solar water heating systems and sewage treatment plants are being promoted by builders in most of their projects. ...
At home under a dome
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
Boyt sold his business in 1993 to Texas-based Monolithic Dome Institute, which has developed dome buildings for the residential and commercial markets. ...
Thumbs down for house built out of a field
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
A couple's innovative plan to build an eco-house out of the very field they want to put it up in looks set to be thwarted. Jeni ...
Checking in with some friends
The Guardian - Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island,Canada
... Staying green For participants in the PEI Eco-Home project 2006 has been a year of developing environmental awareness and taking personal action to reduce
Domestic tasks go digital
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... market. The Eco-Home in Tokyo, showcased in late October, is a prototype of an environmentally friendly and futuristic house. Motorized ...
Morgan Cabin helps keep history alive
Martinsburg Journal - Martinsburg,WV,USA
BUNKER HILL — Just west of Bunker Hill sits one of Berkeley County’s most famous historical landmarks. Nearly 300 years ago, it became the home of the man ...
Historic Cold War Bunker to Become a Museum Deutsche Welle - Germany
During the Cold War, a secret underground bunker for the West German government was constructed to protect a chosen few in case of an atomic attack.
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