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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Allen Switala is in the process of doing of what many people could only dream of: building his dream home. His home will have a unique characteristic: The walls are made of straw. No, the Midland ...

When we moved into our house, there was a shed in the garden. Its timbers were rotten, the floor had long since disappeared ...

PARADISE — Straw bale house owners Delayne Stoneman and Eric Brzescinski were thrilled to see people coming to see the progress of the building of their house Oct. 12. Several interested parties ...

A couple in Brownsville, Oregon is building Linn County’s first straw-bale house. [Don] Andrews, director of the nonprofit community service group Sharing Hands, and his partner, Cheryl Haworth, who ...

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 ...

Backyard Bounty, The Canelo Project – A Strawbale Story, Curt Brill - Larger Than Life. This week on Arizona Illustrated, see how Angela Judd transformed her suburban backyard into a productive garden ...

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 ...