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.

Richard Venberg owned a custom furniture/cabinet shop in Colorado when he took a major step toward becoming an architect and one of Minnesota’s leading advocates of straw-bale construction. “Basically ...

Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the fight against climate change. Photo by Tim Davis and landscaping by ...

The interest in straw-bale construction for houses, originally a 19th century technique, began redeveloping in the late 1980s as one of a number of "natural" building techniques, as Marcia Schnedler ...

ALBERT LEA, Minn. -- The Church of Deep Ecology, in conjunction with Harvest Build Associates, will offer a Straw Bale Construction Workshop Aug. 22-25 in Albert Lea. The workshop will educate on ...

The utilisation of straw bales in construction has attracted growing interest as a sustainable alternative to conventional building materials. Straw bale construction integrates agricultural ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Would you ever live in a house made of straw? It might sound unusual, but this company in Missouri is proving that this ancient ...

When completed this spring, the 26,900-sf Friends Community School in Greenbelt, Md., will be one of the largest straw-bale structures in the world. The Building Team specified straw-bale construction ...

Contrary to the unhappy experience of the first little pig, straw bale is a strong, cost-effective, exceptionally insulating, fire-resistant, sustainable, natural building system. On Saturday, UB ...

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.