“Straw-bale or alternative building is an absolutely fantastic experience,” said David Chew. “But it’s not — I would not recommend this to anybody who wasn’t already interested.

As first-time builders, they combined elements from various approaches ”“ a straw bale house with a gravel foundation, a floor made from second-hand pallets, a composting toilet, and a permaculture ...

“Builders have been importing these products from Europe because straw insulation is a well-worn building methodology there.” Bossie is also hot for the environmental benefits of using straw ...

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The idea of a straw building might bring to mind a medieval homestead, or perhaps the fairy-tale dwelling of The Three Little Pigs. Used since the 19th century—typically as a rural, rustic ...

Balecob, a hybrid of straw and cob house building techniques, can offer unique flexibility to the natural builder. Start with a strong cob house stem wall. We live in exciting times for natural ...

When completed, it will mark the first commercial straw bale building in the Northeast and Binghamton’s first net zero energy building. Construction is underway at 157 Susquehanna St. in ...

Cob is a natural building material made out of clay, sand, and straw. "We stumbled across a photo of a cob house in Wales and we got really interested, so we started collecting lots of pictures of ...

This year, straw from Lithuania will envelop a building in the quiet town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Barbara Jones and her colleagues at Todmorden Learning Centre and Community Hub have hatched ...