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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jared “Cappie” Capp is the builder and designer behind Magnolia Network’s Building Outside the Lines, where he and his ...

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 ...

Straw-bale construction is an old building practice that's getting renewed attention for its environmental benefits. It was developed about a century ago in the Nebraska Sandhills, where the soil was ...

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 ...

Interior designer Marcia Wolff wanted a house that's energy-efficient, ecologically sensitive, fire-resistant and, above all, beautiful. So she chose a building material that might surprise some ...