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.

Traditional building techniques and modern technology come together in the House in Berne, a self-sufficient straw bale house in Graben, a Swiss village located less than an hour’s drive north of Bern ...

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 ...

Thank you so much for the wonderful story about Lou Harrison’s Joshua Tree straw-bale house (“An Original Composition,” Feb. 12) and your important column on straw-bale construction (“It’s What’s ...

A University of Michigan green building class plans to unveil a sustainably-built, straw-bale house located at the Campus Farm next Monday, May 29. Led by Joseph Trumpey, an assistant professor of art ...

Ann Arbor — A straw-built “off-the-grid” building at the University of Michigan debuted Sunday at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens during UM’s annual fall harvest event. UM professor Joe Trumpey first ...

image: It huffed and puffed, but the 82-ton-force, earthquake-simulation shake table could not knock down the straw house designed and built by University of Nevada, Reno alumna and civil engineer ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

What’s most interesting about Y Innovations’ Straw Bale House Project isn’t the unusual building materials or novel approach to addressing homelessness and utilizing vacant lots. It’s not even that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A time-honored method of construction will find new expression as a Columbia building company shows off its home built of ...

The Straw Bale in the City 3-part series walks readers through the codes, costs, and construction of a straw-bale build on a non-rural property. Part 1 covers issues with building codes and managing ...

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 ...