Going off the grid doesn't have to mean going back to basics. More and more people are trading traditional homes and hefty household bills for energy-efficient Earthships. Growing in popularity since ...

Sustainability is a hip buzzword in travel these days, which means, of course, that the term is overused and nobody knows what it really means anymore. Reusing hotel towels and ditching plastic straws ...

Once a week Rashida Ali-Campbell visits a vacant lot at 675 N. 41st St. in West Philadelphia. It’s the future site of an Earthship — a 100 percent sustainable building. Right now the lot is home to ...

Earthship homes are typically solar-heated buildings%2C often made of tires There are about 2%2C000 earthship homes around the world Building an earthship home can be difficult because of local ...

This article is part of The Architect’s Newspaper’s “Passive Aggressive” feature on passive design strategies. Not to be confused with “Passivhaus” or “Passive House” certification, passive design ...

TAOS, N.M.--Imagine maintaining a steady 70 degrees in your house high in the New Mexico desert, even as outside temperatures vary between 100 and minus-20, all without spending a dime on power. Can't ...

Burrowed in the hills of Black Forest sits a home. It would be easy to miss in the winter, buried in snow, if it weren’t for the protruding wall of windows. The air inside is crisp and carries the ...

Covered head to toe in blankets on a sunny fall day, 90-year-old Russell Keich stared in still silence at the pot of ashes in his lap, a photo of his mother in the weedy grass before him. He was there ...

Laura and Dave's Earthship is built from recycled cans, bottles and old tyres, and helps them live almost entire self-sufficiently. In the second episode of Euronews Green's new video series Low ...

If you’re looking for an interesting place to stay in New Mexico, an earthen home could be your next stop. AirBnB offers ...

You can still live in a place like this, and it be nice and beautiful.” So, what is an Earthship? Created by architect Michael Reynolds in the 1970s, an Earthship is a self-sufficient home built in ...