"It doesn’t have to be this way." Patagonia founder builds straw-bale home to answer major issue with traditional houses: ...

In places with some of the harshest winter conditions in the lower 48, people are insulating their houses with straw. The ...

Roberta Strickler Jan 19, 2007 Jan 19, 2007 Updated Sep 11, 2013 Straw bale houses of the western Nebraska prairies were comfortable places built where there were no trees or sod. In Lancaster ...

So he and Knox met with three others having some knowledge of the medium--Bill Steen, David Bainbridge and Pliny Fisk--to talk about building a straw bale structure themselves. Realizing then that ...

Proposals to build a house out of straw bales have been described as "sensational" by a planning committee. They heard the four-bedroom building on a hill outside Stratford-upon-Avon will absorb ...

Instead of the conventional stone building, the health centre has used straw bale — materials made entirely out of farm waste, readily available from wheat farms throughout Kenya — to ...

Photo: Supplied Joe’s interest in straw-bale construction began in the 1990s ... their environmental impact by using reclaimed building materials to create a home that required minimal heating ...

straw bales around an obstacle course in the grounds of Ashby St Ledgers Manor House in Northamptonshire. The participants included firefighters in full kit and a team from Dubai. The event raised ...

George Johnson of Cody-based George Paul Vinegar had started making his small-batch vinegar in a building made of straw bales. The building stayed cool in the summer and warm in the winter, he said.

Guidestone Colorado’s 18th annual Pumpkin Patch & Harvest Festival will take place Oct. 4-6 and 11-13, from 9 a.m. to noon ...