Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the ...

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.

EASTHAMPTON — When Easthampton builder Greg Bossie was looking for environmentally friendly ways to insulate the houses he constructs, he harkened back centuries to when people stayed warm by tucking ...

With a $50,000 award for Phase 1 of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) Natural Carbon Solutions Innovation Challenge, Greene County company Build With Nature is ...

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 ...

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 ...