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 ...

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 ...

With "Underground Homes," Loretta Hall sheds light on the fascinating world of underground home designs, subterranean dwellings and the benefits of living closer to nature. Underground buildings are ...

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 ...

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 ...