Cob is made from a mixture of sand, clay, and straw. Ancient 'cob house' building technique may be key to cheap sustainable ...

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

In 2016, I moved to California to build a “palletable cobin” — a cabin built with heat-treated pallets, insulated with straw, and covered with cob. I wanted a durable, well-insulated tiny cob house ...

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

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

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

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