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 ...

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.

Richard Venberg owned a custom furniture/cabinet shop in Colorado when he took a major step toward becoming an architect and one of Minnesota’s leading advocates of straw-bale construction. “Basically ...

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 ...

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 ...

BROWNSVILLE, Ore. (AP) - A Brownsville couple is building Linn County's first straw-bale house. Don Andrews and his partner, Cheryl Haworth, have purchased some 325 bales of wheat straw from a local ...

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 ...

VINES is growing in Binghamton, and setting a new industry standard for green construction in the process. VINES — Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc. — set the first straw bale at ...

"The audacity of an English professor, thinking he could build a house," said the father of a colleague of Alan Boye, ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- The Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc., or VINES, is set for the new headquarters building to place its first straw bale at the Susquehanna Street location.