The Kalmers added an attic to give the home extra insulation, as well as a south-facing slope on which to put a solar hot water collector. Reading MOTHER EARTH NEWS for years gave me ideas on ...

Jacque Foust remembers heading up the driveway, searching the landscape for the house his real estate agent had promised to show him. Finally, they reached the glassed entry to a futuristic-looking ...

An earth-sheltered home is a structure that’s built below ground, partially below ground, or into a hillside so at least one wall is completely encapsulated by the earth. Earth-sheltered homes have ...

I wasn’t actively looking for an earth-bermed home when I stumbled upon the property that would become our home, but my husband and I were searching for something that would allow us to live more ...

Roy Slaymaker thinks the future of homebuilding lies in the distant past Slaymaker, a 56-year-old draftsman from Columbus, has come up with a modern take on the most ancient form of housing — the cave ...

It’s time the average home buyer discovered what eccentric hippies and hobbit wannabees have long known: earth-sheltered houses are the way to go. These homes can be completely underground, or simply ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Building like this in Iceland makes some sense; there are very few indigenous building ...

A tour of 6 Dale Ave. in Cherry Hill had barely begun when the superlatives started. “You’d never think something like this would be in South Jersey,” said Joe Bozza, the Realtor. “You really feel ...