TAOS, New Mexico — Old tires, crumpled cans and empty wine bottles are piling up at construction sites across the desert. A renewed purpose awaits these discarded items, which will become the building ...

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 ...

Imagine a home that heats and cools itself without the need of a furnace or AC unit; one that produces its own zero emission supply of electricity, and is not dependant on a municipal source for water ...

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 ...

Eco-friendly, energy-efficient 'Earthship' homes are made of garbage. Dec. 29, 2010 — -- Out in the desert near Taos, N.M., they're building houses out of garbage. Using old tires packed with ...

The weeds at 675 N. 41st Street stand six feet tall. The overgrowth creeps over piles of tires, cans and broken bricks. It’s hard to believe anyone would fight for this lot. But for the past ten years ...

Kylie DellaBarca Steel and son Judah Steel, 2, in the entrance of the Earthship hut being built on a farm near Te Puke. Photo / Alan Gibson Used tyres filled with gravel and dirt, bamboo and sacks of ...

Heading northwest from Taos, New Mexico, the sparse, sage-filled desert soon begins to sparkle as looming, Seussian structures appear in the distance. Earthships, as these buildings are called, may ...