Cob is made from a mixture of sand, clay, and straw. Ancient 'cob house' building technique may be key to cheap sustainable ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Montana couple who built a home from clay and straw brings to mind “The Three Little Pigs” fairytale. But Daniel and Katherine ...

VICTOR, Mont. — A couple in Victor is living a lifestyle created by their own hands, and now they’re teaching others how to do it themselves. Their home is on the grid, gets its water from a well and ...

Teach yourself how to build a plastic bottle house with cob and transform trash into a home. I build houses out of trash. I was inspired by the life of Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangarĩ Maathai, who said, ...

For millennia, people have made durable homes from whatever is nearby. You're probably familiar with adobe, that smooth brown material that lots of us equate with architecture in the American ...

A series of hands-on workshops can show you how to make a structurally sound earthen building using local materials.The Build Your Own Cob Cabin Workshop Series will show participants how to build a ...

Miguel Elliott still recalls walking through the Rancho Petaluma Adobe on a fourth grade field trip. “It was a super-hot day but it was cool within the structured earth walls of the fort and I thought ...