In the latest installment in his series on innovation during the recession, Tom Bearden examines how one architect is turning unlikely items into environmentally friendly homes he calls "earthships." ...

If only there were a style of homebuilding that checked all the sustainability boxes. Oh wait, there is! It's called Earthsip architecture and it's pretty amazing. Here is everything you need to know ...

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 ...

Curves are infinitely more appealing to David Millstein than angles. The core of his family’s modified earthship is egg shaped and whimsically ringed with Navy-surplus portholes. Each tire in the ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A net-zero West Hills home built into the natural hillside with walls buried below grade is on the market for $1.495 million. Known as an “Earthship” because ...

The next owner of 1375 Queensborough Rd., near Tweed, Ont., might want to invest in a mariner’s cap. “Once you live in it, you realize that it is literally a ship, you have to sail it,” current owner ...

DIY home builds are never easy, and rarely cheap, but one ambitious couple managed to create a beautiful tiny home for under $10,000. Taylor and Steph Bode from Nomadic Roots created their sustainable ...

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 ...