The author, his wife, and workshop participants recently built this earthbag tiny home. My wife, Mary Jane, and I built our first earthbag home in 2009, after being inspired by the Mother Earth News ...

Derek Markham is a green living expert who started writing for Treehugger in 2012. Are you looking for a DIY construction technique for building an affordable earthquake-, flood-, and bullet-resistant ...

This article describes a low cost method of building insulated basement walls without concrete, using geotextiles. Typical basement walls are expensive and use large amounts of concrete, a major ...

Meet Roan & Ivy, a vibrant couple living in neighboring tiny homes on their off-grid property in New Mexico. They built both the earthbag home and shed tiny house for under $15k. Their alternative ...

Thousands of people in Puerto Rico are still living under blue tarps three years after Hurricane Maria struck the island, and more than 30,000 families have asked the government for assistance after ...

Fagnoon Art School hosted a workshop for teaching the latest methods of earthbag building, an inexpensive construction method, hoping to bring the innovative technique to their farms and villages.

An affordable "earth home", built from rendered clay and materials from the local area, has given a family a fresh start after a fire and then a storm destroyed two of their homes in the last three ...

Each year a number of students at Taliesin take part in the design/build shelter program in order to get a hands-on learning experience in building what they design. Many students as of late are ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. MILO RESIDENT KARA TAHENY, right, at the construction site of her home. The ...