July 2008

The ultimate Italian villa
Financial Times - London,England,UK
By Hugh Aldersey-Williams If, when his reign came to an end in AD138, the Roman emperor Hadrian's villa had come up for sale, the estate agent's details

Unique home requires mower, not shingles
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
They hadn't really been house hunting, but occasionally they'd take a look at someplace that was for sale and had a lot of land for their four dogs to roam. ...

Eco homes still selling despite slump
Green Building Press - Llandysul,Wales,UK
Low energy lighting and appliances, fittings to reduce water consumption and rainwater collection complete the environmentally-friendly initiatives in these

Orchard House: Amazing what people throw out
Times Online - UK
My son, Ross, is also into it, and is developing a business around mini-wind turbines for four-to-ten houses at a time. “I want to develop eco-building even ...

Eco development under microscope
Eastbourne Today - Eastbourne,England,UK
The latest outline planning applications are from local developers the Rigden Group and include four two-bedroom and eight three-bedroom earth sheltered ...

Lakewood couple teaches how to build with mud
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
A young artist, Morin recently worked on the Burke-Deitz shed and she has attended several alternative building workshops, including straw-bale construction ...

House of straw is strongest
Victorville Daily Press - Victorville,CA,USA
He said that straw bale is a well tested technology and that it has been tested by what he calls some very major labs. “When they tested it for fire,

Straw-bale construction ready for Indian country
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
WASHINGTON - The construction of houses from straw bales is poised for widespread deployment in Indian country, especially among Plains and Northeastern ...

Sheltered by the Earth
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
The couple began looking into alternatively built houses and found a plan they thought would work: an earth-sheltered, or berm, home.

Vancouver Architect To Auction Controversial Tree House
AHN - USA
Vancouver, Canada (AHN) - Vancouver Architect Andrew Dewberry lost a two-year court battle to save a tree house he built for his two sons from being removed ...

Getting down and dirty at straw-house workshop
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
The second day of the two-day straw-bale house workshop required attendees to get their hands dirty in order to complete the straw-bale wall they began

House of straw proves efficient
Kankakee Daily Journal - Kankakee,IL,USA
The first workshop on July 13 taught people the basics of straw bale building construction, such as how to shave bales to smooth their surfaces,

Hay, look me over
Norman Transcript - Norman,OK,USA
By Carol Cole-Frowe Myrna Fletcher wants you to know that you, too, could build a straw bale house. The energetic great-grandmother is closing in on her ...

Mysterious house on sale in Sarasota
MyFox Tampa Bay - Tampa,FL,USA
It would appear the 1930s house was built for little people, so much so that Sarasota residents have nicknamed the building 'the midget house.

Retreats: Island time
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The 1.5-acre island, complete with a geodesic dome house, is in the middle of Island Lake between Bloomer and Chetek, Wis. The Thompsons and their kids ...

Buildings need to shape up to beat hurricanes: engineer
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
The researcher said he's old enough to recall geodesic domes from the 1960s and '70s. "Lots of people built domes, but it's hard to build them so they don't ...

People Power
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
CLARE JOHNSON: This is a rammed earth wall it is made from stone from the Gold Coast quarry mixed with some small amount of cement and water.

Eco towns worldwide
guardian.co.uk - UK
Here, emerging from the desert, is a development of 130 homes with walls built from used tyres full of rammed earth, empty glass bottles and cans and ...Design: Out of the shadows
Independent - London,England,UK
But while glass walls and doors may be the norm now, one couple, Tim and Zoe Bawtree, went further with their partly underground house, built in Cheltenham ...

’‘’Ultimately, Alsops jumble sale aesthetic accommodates lapses in ...
Building Design - UK
It is an earth-sheltered house and externally, you can’t see it at all. There’s something of that house in the visitor centre design. ...

Green homes open to the public
Green Building Press - Llandysul,Wales,UK
At the other end of the spectrum, is the much publicised earthship, an earth sheltered structure designed and built by the Low Carbon Trust.

Serious Straw Bale Homes...No, Seriously.
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
And that's the message that straw bale homeowners and enthusiasts have been trying to spread for years. It seems that finally the current mortgage crisis,

Local House Built Out Of Straw is Naturally Energy Efficient
WKBT - La Crosse,WI,USA
Most of the materials inside Predretti's straw bale home are from the Habitat ReStore or other used materials that would have otherwise been thrown into a ...

Their 'house of straw' a warm and eco-friendly environment
Gisborne Herald - Gisborne,New Zealand
Aaron and Sarah Boyle focused on designs that would allow them to live healthily and self-sufficiently, opting for straw bale construction to build their ...

To build green, you need to know the code
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
You're perfectly free to build an alternative, "green" structure - say a straw-bale or adobe house - so long as you can prove it will be safe.

Straw-bale Houses Provide Energy Efficiency, Jobs
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
But today, houses built out of straw bales are sturdy and more energy efficient than traditionally constructed buildings, experts say.

Solar-energy pioneer, artist enjoyed breaking the rules
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
In the late-1980s, Cirrito teamed with friend Tom Wuelpern, of Rammed Earth Development, to design a house for a couple who wanted an energy-efficient abode

For Sale: Extreme Makeover homes
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
And so, hoping not to seem ungrateful to the people who built the home for him, he put it up for sale. The house and its acre lot have been appraised at ...

Rajasthan's forts, castles on sale
Times of India - India
Over 100 crenelated forts — once ornate palaces and castles built over centuries, home to Rajput kings and chieftains — are up for sale across the state. ...

Underground house reduces energy use
Winnipeg Free Press, Canada -
You'd think you stumbled on to the hiding place of Bilbo Baggins, the head hobbit of the JRR Tolkien fantasy books, who also lived in an underground house

Ohio burger restaurant for sale for just $1
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA
By AP TOLEDO, Ohio — A bit of Ohio hamburger history is for sale in downtown Toledo for just $1 — but you have to get it to go. The YWCA of Greater Toledo

June 2008

Inside the Solar Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever
Scientific American - USA
... the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change—or merely another technological dead end, like Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome or dymaxion car. ...

Eco homes: Houses without the huff and puff
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Straw-bale houses are warm and sustainable - and here to stay Straw houses have had a bad reputation. No matter that houses made of straw bales have a much ...

THE BUILDING OF MOTHER'S STACKWOOD DOME
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
... out to experiment with the low-cost construction technique as a part of last summer's Earth-Sheltered Homes seminar—a whole crowd of folks pitched in, ...

Mom's Subterranean Root Cellar, Bungalow
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
... leave to the vegetables) was the source of a good bit of excitement when it was built in conjunction with last summer's Earth-Sheltered Homes Seminar.

Playing a Leading Role in the Ruins of a Tornado
New York Times - United States
... house for a dollar a day, that would make $200 toward our payments,” Ms. Eller said of the couple’s new house, which combines geodesic domes with SIPs. ...

Dome homes provide the ultimate in safety and strength Tankless ...
Casa Grande Valley Newspapers - Casa Grande,AZ,USA
The following companies offer dome homes: American Ingenuity, (800) 334-6011, www.aidomes.com; Geodesic Domes, (800) 825-2389, www.domehomes.com; ...

Owner contemplates offer on $22 million 'Glass House'
Daily Camera - CO,USA
According to the application submitted to the Land Use Department, the “Solar Tree House” is expected to have an exterior made from stucco, ...

A primer on straw-bale construction
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
By AP _ Straw-bale construction uses standard bales, usually purchased from a farm or co-op, as the primary building materials. _ With the more popular of

The straw bale house, part III: Preparing the site, permissions ...
Sofia Echo - Bulgaria
When we got to the UK, Allan and I and my brother, a retired manager of a large construction company, looked at the plans for the straw bale house ...

College plans earth sheltered building
Green Building Press - Llandysul,Wales,UK
Resembling the Hobbits' mythical Shire home, a recently completed artists impression gives the first glimpse of Peterborough based New College Stamford's ...

50 best property websites: The pick of the clicks
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
If you can splash the cash on a one-off property - a cave that's now a home, a disused fire station or that sought-after converted public toilet - visit ...

PLANS ARE UNVEILED FOR A GREENER HOUSE
Leicester Mercury - Leicester,England,UK
BY MARTIN ROBINSON More than 50 homes fitted with solar panels, water recycling technology and grass on the roof instead of tiles are being planned for a ...

Up Where the Air is Clear
Manville News - Princeton,NJ,USA
By Ilene Dube EVER since the Swiss Family Robinson erected a well-outfitted tree house from salvaged parts of a ship, humankind has built fantasies around ...

He moves into tree and won't budge
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
When the owner got wind that a tree house had sprouted on his land, he came to confront Mr Mohd Awang, who pleaded living difficulties.

Great Wall of China
By cheaphotelinfo
Stones from the mountains were used over mountain ranges, while rammed earth was used for construction in the plains. There are no surviving historical records indicating the exact length and course of the Qin Dynasty walls. ...

The earthen buildings
By anja(anja)
The earthen buildings known as tu lou are made of rammed earth and timber with neither concrete nor steel. A Hakka saying has it that one bowl of rammed earth is worth a bowl of meat. The main material is a mixture of fine laterite, ...

Mother-in-law to live in house of straw
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
The only bricks used on the project will be at the base of the walls to help support the straw bale and plaster structure. Mr Livingstone, 53, from Chapel ...

The Independent Weekly Line on Durango and Beyond
Durango Telegraph - Durango,CO,USA
The Colorado Straw Bale Association, a nonprofit group, is one of a team of midwives to that process, and to that end has announced its Seventh Annual ...

'Ecology and economy'
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
A dozen people spent six days recently at the station, in southern Muskingum County, to learn the proper methods of straw-bale construction. ...

Green belt homes win backing
Yorkshire Post - Leeds,England,UK
The plans are to part-demolish, convert and extend the buildings to form an earth-sheltered dwelling, which would be highly insulated and boast several ...

A QUICK AND INEXPENSIVE SOD IGLOO
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
By Burnell Lippy I built my quick and inexpensive earth-sheltered home mostly from materials gathered close at hand. . . Here's the protected entry. ...

Couple Call Cozy Little Burrow Home
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
"Sun Belt Earth Sheltered Architecture," by John B. Langley, focused on making the technique work in Florida. Pat drew the plans himself. ...

Dome, sweet dome
Globe and Mail - Canada
Mr. South was inspired by the geodesic domes promoted by the visionary Buckminster Fuller, and started investigating new dome-building techniques. ...

Recy le d living : Family nears completion of what could be state ...
Benton County Daily Record - Bentonville,AR,USA
It started with the construction of a straw-bale house three years ago, then a cozy, two-level earth-bag dome for the Stanleys' two young boys to play in. ...

Space: Making Hay
Urbanite Baltimore - Baltimore,MD,USA
Sigi Koko, an architectural designer who specializes in straw bale structures, lectured to the crowd, showing them how to wrap tar paper over bales to ...

The farm holiday caravan that they made from straw
Farmers Guardian - Preston,England,UK
The couple have now got planning permission to build a two-bedroom straw bale holiday cottage and construction is underway. Mr and Mrs Atkinson, ...

May 2008

…Paying a Premium for a Wright Design
New York Times - United States
Some are situated on acreage and some are sited in communities among other single-story homes. Even there, they are easy to identify. ...

3D geodesic dome - The future is now
Bizcommunity.com - Cape Town,South Africa
Geodesic domes are the way to go this century for all indoor and outdoor expos and events and it is not limited to the world of sport. ...

Eco-friendly village promises plenty of planned comfort - for olim ...
Jerusalem Post - Israel
A geothermal well has already been dug on premises and the company is experimenting with using frigid subterranean temperatures to air-condition buildings, ...

Hay Bale House
KOMU-TV - Columbia,MO,USA
"About 11 years ago, I read an article in the Sierra Club magazine about a straw bale building," said LaVaute. Inside Peter's walls are bales of straw,

More opt for eco-houses as energy bills rise
ic Wales - United Kingdom
Their homes on a 74-acre site would consist of five detached dwellings and a terrace of four dwellings, all built from straw bale, earth and timber. ...

Straw Bale Construction
WGRZ-TV - Buffalo,NY,USA
Straw bale wall systems can be erected quickly in a "barn-raising" type construction. It's common for all the straw bale walls in a modest size structure to ...

Sun Worship India-inspired solar home in Healdsburg
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Tichnor, who is also a landscape architect, formed outdoor rooms - wide Indian-style verandas with canvas canopies to provide shade. ...

Castle specialist focuses on finding properties fit for a king
International Herald Tribune - France
Here is an example of a château for sale in Tourraine, about 250 km south of Paris. It was built in the Renaissance style in the 15th century, according to ...

Scientist builds solar-powered 'geriatric' home
Inquirer.net - Philippines
To keep the couple from feeling claustrophobic in what they call an "earth-sheltered building," they made the ceiling height at 9 feet or 2.75 meters.

You can huff & puffbut you can't blow Joe's house down
Frontenac News - Sharbot Lake,ON,Canada
By Julie Druker Joe Vidal is definitely the king of this straw bale castle. In fact he designed and built it in six months himself, with a crew of course. ...

Straw houses gaining acceptance
Boston Globe - United States
Straw-bale houses are becoming increasing popular and accepted in many areas of the West and Southwest, and this method of construction can offer an

Govt demolishes his tree house
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
A TREE HOUSE. Every kid's fantasy. But for 65-year-old Hashim Yahya, it was his home to spend his twilight years. For four years, Mr Hashim's home - 50 ...

Earth-sheltered Homes
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
An earth-bermed house can reap about 95 percent of the energy advantages of a fully underground home, and adding an earth roof, or living roof, ...

dirtbag living
By Miller
the technique calls for polypropylene feed sacks filled with dirt, placed on the wall, and tamped into place as a stabilized rammed earth block. wow, how simple can it get? i was absolutely intrigued. i swallowed the hook and bought the ...

Grand Designs: The house that Kevin built
24dash - Hereford,UK
So with day two over, and with the build on schedule hopefully, Kevin’s next challenge will be a double height rammed earth wall – easy. ...

’Monks adopt an earthy approach to insulation at Berkshires Douai ...
Building Design - UK
The consistency of the subsoil is being examined to assess its suitability for a rammed earth wall for the proposed rare books/archive library to be built ...

Strawbale house wins award, goes through to finals
Green Building Press - Llandysul,Wales,UK
... mortgages for the construction of new eco homes and homes built from traditional and sustainable materials such as straw, timber, cob and rammed earth.

Grand Designs Home of the Year entries think out of the modernist box
Times Online - UK
If you think that’s ecofriendly, it’s nothing compared with Penwhilwr, Rachel Shiamh’s two-storey, lime-rendered straw-bale house in an acre of woodland in ...

Straw panel design to build house
BBC News - UK
Prefabricated straw bale panels will be used to build a house during a live television event. The bales, which are rendered with lime, were designed by a ...

Property for sale: A right royal ruin, needs some work
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
"This chamber was the farm rubbish dump and we removed 11 lorry loads of rubble, scrap and animal bones." The first thing a new owner might do, ...

Unique "green" designs create ordinary community in Greensburg
KTKA.com - Topeka,KS,USA
The Geodesic dome-styled building will be the new home to a family of four. Its green features will cost them only a dollar a day to heat and cool. ...

Wild side of Gold Coast
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
This innovative, earth sheltered building is tucked into the ground, hidden from view at street level. Its energy-saving construction and operation is a ...

MOTHER'S $10-PER-SQUARE-FOOT (OR LESS!)
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Effective waterproofing is crucial to the longevity of any earth-sheltered building, and leakage problems have traditionally been the major complaint voiced ...

Kevin McCloud to build his own eco-home in six days
Architects' Journal - London,England,USA
As well as using rammed earth, straw bales, hemp and lime plaster, the architect has also specified materials from 'other people's waste', such as woodchip, ...

Salt Lick owner moving forward with development
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
The winery will have rammed-earth walls using some of the caliche. The parking lots will be made from the creek gravel or decomposed granite, similar to the ...

Ian Rau's money pit covered over
Geelong Advertiser - Geelong,Victoria,Australia
... a failed attempt to convert a 3m diving pool into an underground games and bar room. The hidden money pit is yet another example of the lavish lifestyle ...

'Living Homes' is fascinating look at energy-efficient houses
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
The book profiles 22 energy-efficient homes in Colorado, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas and Utah that were built using adobe, rammed earth, ...

April 2008

Dancer swaps New York for house of straw
ic Wales - United Kingdom
There are still straw bale houses standing today that have stood the test of time and the elements. You spend hours making a mix, all with hands and feet

A Living Heritage: The Earthen Homes of Yongding County
New York Times - United States
... the Chinese say foreign surveillance has, over the years, mistaken for missile silos and UFO’s, are decades- and centuries-old and made of rammed earth.

At home in a mango tree
GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
His tree house in the Lake City of India, Udaipur, has found pride of place in the Limca Book of Records. Singh's tree house is truly a case of owner's ...

Negative energy of a chain-saw massacre
Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA
The destruction of a tree house. Not because it was my tree house. It wasn’t. It belonged to a young family whose little children loved its pirate-ship ...

CenterPoint destroys kids' tree house
Galveston County Daily News - Galveston,TX,USA
But on April 16, contractors working for CenterPoint Energy destroyed the tree house, telling Banuelos it was too close to the power lines that run along ...

To save tree, man builds house around it
CNN-IBN - New Delhi,India
THE TREE HOUSE: Singh has made the house out of his love and passion for nature. The controversial Bus Rapid Transit corridor will not be scrapped.

Selling Green
Memphis Daily News - TN, USA
And green building doesn't have to be extreme, like erecting a geodesic dome or making the entire home solar powered or building an elaborate gray-water ...

How To Get Plans for a 30 foot Dome
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
The principle that gives this dome (it's called a geodesic dome) its remarkable strength was discovered by Buckminster Fuller. It's a patented design of ...

KRCC's new digs may be subterranean
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
Earthships and similar rammed-earth structures are fairly unusual, but they offer several advantages. Michael Shealy, who lives in a rammed-earth house in ...

Suburbs stuck with empty houses are trying to figure out what to ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Monticello -- where officials estimate 25 to 30 percent of homes for sale are vacant -- is using officials who used to inspect new houses to monitor vacant ...

Fine farm nestled in scenic countryside
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
The prime holding at Crampscastle, Fethard, Co Tipperary will be offered for sale in its entire or in a number of lots. It comes with substantial farm ...

Illinois residents shaken by quake
WTHR - Indianapolis,IN,USA
Grayville, IL - When Nedra Way and her husband Bill built their underground house in Grayville, Illinois four years ago, they had safety in mind. ...

Barn conversions are going down a storm in the north
ic Newcastle.co.uk - Newcastle,England,UK
The properties are for sale through Foster Maddison estate agents, tel: (01434) 607711. THIS is a stunning farm conversion consisting of four properties ...

Sell the farm
TheChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
Creststreet Power of Calgary said it decided to put the two wind farms up for sale after a strategic review process, partly due to the federal government’s ...

Farmland property proving promising
Country Life - UK
For sale at £2.35m through Strutt & Parker and Knight Frank (020–7629 8171), Broome Farm comprises a modernised, 17th-century, six-bedroom farmhouse with an

Fredericton's city market up for sale
Telegraph-Journal - Saint John,New Brunswick,Canada
York County Properties announced earlier this week that the popular weekend gathering spot is up for sale. The rumoured asking price is $1.5 million. ...

Sleeping Bear doesn't have cash for land
Traverse City Record Eagle - Traverse City,MI,USA
By VICTOR SKINNER EMPIRE -- Fritz Barratt had only one real offer when he listed for sale his family's 190-acre farm in Leelanau County's Sleeping Bear ...

Family home just outside of village
Wicklow People - Wicklow,Ireland
Additional features such as the Geothermal heating system, individually controlled underfloor heating in each room and electric entrance gates makes this ...

Green living
Bowen Island Undercurrent - Bowen Island,BC,Canada
They considered a straw-bale structure, but dismissed this option after extensive research showed numerous problems with mold and moisture. ...

Straw house keeps energy wolves at bay
Canoe.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Carr and his wife Anita are members of the Ontario Straw Bale Building Coalition and they recently placed a bid with the city to build 16 units of straw ...

House that straw built; Builder touts benefits of environmentally ...
The Kingston Whig-Standard - Kingston,Ontario,Canada
Straw bale homes are touted to be warmer in winter and cooler in summer, which translates into lower energy bills and fewer emissions. ...

Farmland value up 14.5% in BC during 2007
Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
On the other side of the Mount Newton Valley, the 46-acre Marley Farm Winery is for sale for $6.2 million. FCC said Island agriculture continues to be ...

EARTHSHIPS
By Lady Lavona(Lady Lavona)
An Earthship house is made up of rammed earth and recycled tires! Once the walls are in place, they are plastered over and appear very similar to an adobe style house. This is another type of Eco-Home building system (and my current ...

Earth Day, Every Day: 'Dirt Man' Digs Building Safer, Sustainable ...
Earthtimes - London,UK
The architect-inventor holds the patent to EarthWall, a seismically-stable rammed earth construction process for sustainable building

$8 million to $10 million needed for dorm
Baraboo News Republic - Baraboo,WI,USA
The LLC would be built into the hillside, a so-called earth-sheltered structure, which would lower heating and cooling costs as well as limit noise from the ...

Rammed-earth home looking pretty good
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
And this rammed-earth home in Napa, built for the owner of a restaurant, is very compelling. What could be more "green" that a home made from the very soil

Where Domes Come From
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Geodesic domes, are cheap, strong, light and graceful but little information is available on small domes. This article is intended to help fill the

Designs on the future
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
On its grass-covered top was a geodesic dome from Habitat 76 with a greenhouse inside it. There were collectors to gather solar energy for heating and a ...

Bunker could become a church
Lancashire Evening Post - Preston,England,UK
The Whittingham Lane site's underground nuclear bunker was once used as a filter room, collecting information during the Second World War.

Leonardslee Gardens up for sale
Times Online - UK
Mary, who has three children, also has her own farm to look after. Leonardslee is glorious in late spring and, if the weather has been favourable, ...

Open house at Howden cottage made of straw
Goole Today - Goole,England,UK
"When combined with plaster on both sides, straw bale walls are fireproof, vermin proof and airtight. "The internal clay plaster moderates heat and humidity ...

Green builder proud to be a woman of straw
Yorkshire Post - Leeds,England,UK
And after completing her first "home grown home" made from straw bales, Carol Atkinson is poised to go even further down the green path.

The straw bale house, part II: Design, planning permission and ...
Sofia Echo - Bulgaria
Designing our straw bale house has taken some time. Thankfully, I’ve had the help of an architect, Nikolai Stoyanov, who is interested and enthusiastic. ...

Building with Earth
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Homes made from natural, earthen materials are affordable, comfortable, sustainable and enduring, including the pros and cons of adobe, cob, rammed-earth ...

Capital gains tax legislation changes see rise in land for sale
FarmersWeekly - UK
This figure is backed up by the Farmers Weekly Land Tracker, which measures the amount of land advertised for sale in the magazine. ...

Wash. Town Put Itself Up for Sale 5 Years Ago, Still Hasn't Found ...
FOXNews - USA
She grew up in Brewster, but often visited Monse as a child, and remembered it as a bustling farm community. "I was here a lot. .

Wind farms for sale
Guardian - UK
One of the world's biggest owners of wind farms has put its portfolio up for sale in a deal that could be worth up to €4bn (£3.17bn). ...

Dream farm for sale
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
By Majella O'Sullivan A ready to go, successful dairy farm enterprise has just come on the market and is expected to make more than €4m. ..

Grade 2 arable farm for sale near Liverpool
FarmersWeekly - UK
But there was also a wide range of residential property for sale, which has boosted the total guide to just under £3m and could appeal to a wide range of ...

Eco homes: Am I being led up the carbon path?
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
"We're not here to insist you make your house carbon neutral," says Richard, which is a relief. I haven't revealed that I'm such a pale shade of green that, ...

Local builder shows off certified 'green' house
KXAN-TV - Austin,TX,USA
The home also creates less waste and is healthier for occupants than the standard home, according to the non-profit US Green Building Council. The house at

Wirral brothers build Des Res to survive a nuclear war
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,England,UK
Every detail of the bunker is considered, from the video-relayed scenes displayed on screens outside the underground windows to the hi-tech air filtration ...

The Monolithic Dome Builders of Saskatchewan
io9, CA - Mar 19, 2008
It's Canadian Dome Industries, a company responsible for building the monolithic dome house you see above, in Red Deer, Alberta. The monolithic dome house, ...

Couple that lost home twice to wildfires will rebuild underground
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
"It's probably similar to people in New Orleans building below sea level, or someone building on an earthquake fault," said Skip Miller. ...

Petrides Homes Announces Home with "Third Generation" Green ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... was one of unattractive solar panels hung on existing homes and of innovations such as rammed earth walls; the second generation, still popular,

Couple Plans to Rebuild Home Underground
The Associated Press -
Skip Miller built the home's wooden geodesic dome himself. After the 2003 fire, Miller took early retirement from his job as a vocational teacher to ...

March 2008

Rammed earth seminar offered in Jackson
Wyoming Business Report - Cheyenne,WY,USA
By Staff JACKSON – Rammed earth is an old technology that’s been around for thousands of years. Recently, rammed earth has reignited the attention of ...

Crews make walls out of dirt
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
The first-ever rammed-earth public building in the nation will complement Pinedale's decade-old library when the expansion project is completed in March ...(Done by Terra Firma of BC)

At Auction, UFO Home Didn't Take Off
The Associated Press - 19 hours ago
(AP) — The sale price for a Chattanooga, Tenn., house shaped like a flying saucer is nothing to phone home about. The Space House sold at auction Saturday ...
Mountainside flying saucer house sells for $135000 WAVE

How to build a rammed earth house
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
... by spacious lawns and sheltered by big oaks ... and in the garage are two (count them, two) Mercedes. But my house is still made of rammed earth. ...

Abu Dhabi Building World's First Energy Positive Building
EcoGeek - Missoula,MT,USA
In addition to one of the world's largest solar roofs, the building will also have integrated wind turbines, solar-driven cooling and de-humidification and ...

Costa Rica has a subdivision high in the trees
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
"For many, the idea of living in a tree house is rooted in our childhood imagination. Whatever the age, six or 60, the thought of being in a tree house ...

Future may depend on environmental education
Daily Record - Ellensburg,WA,USA
... construction in mid-April of a new home northwest of Ellensburg that is partially built into a hillside, or “earth-sheltered,” to reduce power usage. ...

Out on a limb
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Hapuku Lodge, outside Kaikoura on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, has taken the tree house concept to new heights. As I looked out from mine, ...

Welcome to the jungle(Tree homes)
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Rainwater, which there is no shortage of in a rain forest, will be funnelled into the home from a catchment system on a home's roof and distributed to sinks

Thinking green
Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA
He was involved in active and passive solar heating, and, he reports, the construction of the state’s first underground house, in Middletown.

Future of US housing being built in China
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Energy efficiency: Eighty-five percent of the heating and air conditioning is produced from geothermal heat pumps, while the roofing system employs an air ...

Everything's Gone Green
Canadian Architect - Toronto,Canada
Planting was also executed on the structural retaining earth walls that protect the ravine edge. And the concrete portions of the engineered landscape earth ...

Toronto man builds environmental dream house
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
As for future improvements to the house, Paloheimo says he would like to put wind turbines on the roof to make the home more efficient, but he knows his ...

Award-Winning US Architecture Firms to Present Panel
UB News Center - Buffalo,NY,USA
The firm always has specialized in environmentally sensitive buildings, beginning with many award-winning earth-sheltered and solar designs in the early ...

They love the green
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
The select group of homeowners opening their doors to the public will be showing off solar heating, rammed-earth construction, recycled wood floors, ...

February 2008

The house that Mike built
Globe and Mail - Canada
They absorb rainwater runoff and snowmelt, and keep it out of municipal storm drain systems, though that's not an issue in this design because we've ...

Eco homes: Green light for your eco-ambitions
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom(See the earth sheltered design)
Want to install solar power, recycle rainwater, even build your own lighthouse? It has never been easier, says Caroline McGhie All homeowners these days ...

Homes made GREEN
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
More than 30 years later, Fulmer and wife Maria built their dream home: an earth-sheltered house in East Bloomfield, Ontario County. ...

Architecture students think outside the box to design low-cost ...
Gizmag - Victoria,Australia
In 2004, eight students designed and built a home for a single mother and her Navajo family which incorporated a rammed-earth Trombe wall for temperature ...

WANT A $15000 HOME... FOR ONLY $6000?
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Rammed earth construction is good for passive solar applications. Ralph Paddy of South Dakota Stat... Rammed earth construction has been well known in ...

‘’Earth-friendly vision leads to construction of hybrid home
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... Schulz designed the home to be built with recycled beams, cord-wood masonry (lumber embedded in Earth-friendly mortar), an earth-sheltered lower level, ...

'Low-ball' bid among offers for missile site; Canadore to decide ...
The North Bay Nugget - North Bay,Ontario,Canada
The Cowper proposal includes a plan to be the on-site caretakers living in an underground house demonstrating alternative forms of energy and sustainable ...

Ancient Building Blocks of Dirt
New West - Missoula,MT,USA
It's old, and it's making a comeback as a construction material under a new name: rammed earth. Rammed earth is exactly what it sounds like.

The straw bale house
Sofia Echo - Bulgaria
We also learned about other eco-friendly ways of building, such as foundations made from old car tyres filled with aggregate and/or rammed earth; ...

Down to Earth Homes
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
By Dan Chiras The soil bermed around this home in Tempe, Arizona, helps the house keep its cool. Earth-sheltered homes fit a wide range of climates and a ...

Yogi's legacy lives on
Suffolk Evening Star - Ipswich,England,UK
Only natural materials are used - painted wood, bricks, rammed earth, clay stucco, marble tiles, natural fibre carpets, curtains and furniture, ...

ONARCHITECTURE- American dumpster: Builders deep-six too much material
The Hook - Charlottesville,VA,USA
"It might feel good to put on that green roof," he says of the proposed $650000 project, "but will it really do a damn? Why not invest in a geothermal

HOMESTEAD ON A SHOESTRING
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
How would you react to discovering a neatly integrated project that includes a 1000square-foot, passive solar, earth-sheltered, two-bedroom home (with ...

A Handmade Dream Homestead
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
My mom warned me that I would have problems with the soil, which is heavy clay, but when the garden took off, she showed up with her camera and took ...

On trampolines and an aspiring tree house
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
Beyond the trampoline, 20 feet up in a large stand of trees, sits the other ungainly eyesore in our yard -- the tree house. More accurately, it's a ...

not easy building green
Chicago Tribune - United States
Builders wanting to include geothermal heating and cooling systems, graywater harvesting, or wind turbines in residential projects, have been given special ...

new wave of eco-building in hackney
By hackneye(hackneye)
“The foundations of the centre are rammed earth tyres, and the bale walls are plastered with lime and clay recycled form the farm’s own pottery,” says Emma Appleton. “The main cross beam of the building is made of greenheart wood, ...

Habitat For Humanity Goes Green!
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
Sixteen-year-old Isaac Felix lives with his mother and four siblings in a four-bedroom, passive-solar, rammed-earth house built by Tucson Habitat for ...

Artist cultivates eco-friendly concrete creations
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... (a triangular or odd-shaped parcel, preferably, since he'd like to do an infill project), construct a rammed-earth showroom and studio and relocate. ...

Green House Rising
Inquirer.net - Philippines
The roof of the stair tower will serve as an additional wind draw/ scoop to properly ventilate the larger spaces. Aside from these, there are technologies

January 2008

Rammed Earth: Timeless Green Building
By Jessica Jensen
Rammed earth may be one of the oldest building technologies on earth–and it happens to be an outstanding green building technique. The technique originated in dry climates where wood was often not plentiful. The resulting structures are ...

Hearst Castle
Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA
... and its utilities are underground -- innovative choices in the 1920s and ones that withstood a stiff test four years ago, when the San Simeon earthquake ...

The Comfort of Home
Washington Post - United States
Her mattress is surrounded by her things from the tunnel and in a strange way, the living room resembles her homestead underground.

Building au natural
The Daily Astorian - Astoria,OR,USA
... but also using building blocks made of mortar and recycled Styrofoam or wood fiber, making homes of rammed earth, and estuary sewage treatment systems ...

•Off the grid and ahead of the curve
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
In the 1970s, he and his wife built an earth-sheltered house. He called his selective-cut forestry methods "sustainable" before the term was mainstream. ...

Grand Designs: Why Kevin has designs on changing our landscape
Independent - London,England,UK
The first show in the new series featured a largely underground house built in a dense urban area in Cheltenham, which attracted a huge number of planning ...

Caves' renovation illuminates the past
Pahrump Valley Times - Pahrump,NV,USA
They built stone facades and put down hardwood floors. The men had furniture and, in one case, a miner even had silver tea service in his cave. ...

An ecologically AGREE-able debut
Record-Searchlight (subscription) - Redding,CA,USA
The exchange also will launch its Earth Advantage Green Resource Center, which will showcase eco-friendly building materials such as patterned concrete and ...

Inspired by nature
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
When Paul Greiling and Pamela Rivas jokingly call their San Luis Obispo home a “tree house,” it’s not far from the truth. The pair found their 1.5-acre ...

How to liberate the soul of your home
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Yet human demands for housing are unchanging: we still all need to take care of sex life, sleeping habits, pets, gardening, personal hygiene,

A castle in the sky?
Times Online - UK
The couple have also supplemented their income by recultivating the surrounding olive groves – the estate produces about 2000 litres of organic olive oil ...

’William McDonoughs Treescraper Tower of Tomorrow
Inhabitat - USA
Flora abounds, with a green roof and three-story atrium gardens planned on the western side of the building. As for water, the wastewater from sinks and ...

GETTING THE HOBBIT HABIT
The Cornishman - Truro,England,UK
... Peninsula Properties, which is selling the reservoir for South West Water, has dreamt up the concept of putting an earth-sheltered house in the space. ...

Home in Chesterfield utilizes nature's power
The Republican - MassLive.com - Springfield,MA,USA
Inspired by books written in the 1970s about "earth-sheltered" houses, Prince worked with an architect and builder to create a house made out of concrete ...

Mud brick mansion
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
The Andersons have relished the property's seclusion and say it almost seems like it has its own eco-climate. "We can get here and watch the clouds rolling

Homeless set blaze in old, abandoned tunnel under Douglas Street
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
The Empress built the tunnel in 1908 to provide an underground passageway to a power plant and laundry facility near Douglas and Humboldt streets

‘Down to Earth: Green' your home with environment-friendly ...
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA
This and related questions will be explored during the fourth annual Green Building Seminar Series presented by the Ithaca Green Building Alliance and ...

TREASURE FOR SALE
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
It exhibits a blend of older Mexican adobe and New England building elements: thick rammed-earth adobe walls but with upstairs balconies, porch areas, ...

Energy-efficient condo complex proposed for Kimberton tract
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Earth Rising Homes, of Phoenixville, will unveil the designs Wednesday at a public meeting at the East Pikeland Township Building.