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

Sustainable by Design Greg Bossie jokes that negative ideas around building with straw starts in childhood. “We all grew up ...

David and Carrie Chew live in a house made of straw. It has two bathrooms, a modern kitchen and a packed earthen floor. The exterior walls are made with stacked wheat straw bales covered in plaster.

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- How far would you go to get a house that only costs $1.25 a day to heat in the winter? Better question: Would you live in a house built with straw bales? That idea, which began in ...

Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the fight against climate change. Photo by Tim Davis and landscaping by ...

Settlers in Nebraska’s treeless Sandhills mostly relied on straw in the 1880s and still used the bales to make homes through the 1940s.The post-World War II building boom and people’s desires for ...

MECHANICSVILLE, Iowa (AP) A desire to support local, ecologically sustainable industries steered Michelle and Bennett Kenyon Brown to build a house that uses straw bales as a major construction ...

Dear Jim: I want a natural way to build an energy efficient house without plastics, foams or adhesives. Straw bale houses seem to be natural. Is the straw bale construction efficient for low utility ...

Kenyans are increasingly embracing straw bale technology, which uses materials made entirely out of farm waste, to build cheaper and environmentally-friendly dream homes, writes KEVIN OGUOKO Jackline ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - Robert Young had no idea when he first met Katherine Red Feather on a South Dakota Indian reservation how much his life was going to change. Young, at the time a successful clothing ...