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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The utilisation of straw bales in construction has attracted growing interest as a sustainable alternative to conventional building materials. Straw bale construction integrates agricultural ...

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.

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 ...

Four St. Xavier schoolgirls have won a national competition and a $25,000 grant to build a community center out of straw bales in Garryowen. The eighth graders at Pretty Eagle Catholic School took the ...

People have built houses from straw since the Paleolithic Era, but modern straw bale construction originated on the plains of Nebraska more than 100 years ago. Andrew Morrison of StrawBale.com says ...

Carolyn Roberts built her own straw bale home and survived. Not only did she live through the experience, but she wrote a book all about it, called A House of Straw: A Natural Building Odyssey. Part ...