Could straw houses be the buildings of the future? That's what researchers at the University of Bath will be testing this summer by constructing a "BaleHaus" made of prefabricated straw bale and hemp ...
A nonprofit is hoping to ease the California housing crunch with a building method that is centuries old—stacking bales of ...
With a $50,000 award for Phase 1 of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) Natural Carbon Solutions Innovation Challenge, Greene County company Build With Nature is ...
A group of local contractors are hoping to address both homelessness and climate change with their project to build six new “tiny homes” using natural materials.
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 ...
Could straw houses be the buildings of the future? That's what researchers at the University of Bath will be testing this summer by constructing a "BaleHaus" made of prefabricated straw bale and hemp ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - When Dana Richardson heard that someone in the San Luis Valley had two semi-truck loads of baled straw to dump, she knew just what to do with it.
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.
A home that’s being built in Minneapolis is unconventional because of what the owners are putting in its walls. Peter Schmitt and his wife, Katie, are building a home with straw inside the walls. They ...