Sustainability is a hip buzzword in travel these days, which means, of course, that the term is overused and nobody knows what it really means anymore. Reusing hotel towels and ditching plastic straws ...

Going off the grid doesn't have to mean going back to basics. More and more people are trading traditional homes and hefty household bills for energy-efficient Earthships. Growing in popularity since ...

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 ...

Earthship homes are typically solar-heated buildings%2C often made of tires There are about 2%2C000 earthship homes around the world Building an earthship home can be difficult because of local ...

Once a week Rashida Ali-Campbell visits a vacant lot at 675 N. 41st St. in West Philadelphia. It’s the future site of an Earthship — a 100 percent sustainable building. Right now the lot is home to ...

It took the host three years to build the unique structure, the Airbnb listing says. Screen grab from Airbnb.co.uk A short term vacation rental on Airbnb in Taos, New Mexico, has become wildly popular ...

This article is part of The Architect’s Newspaper’s “Passive Aggressive” feature on passive design strategies. Not to be confused with “Passivhaus” or “Passive House” certification, passive design ...

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 ...

Laura and Dave's Earthship is built from recycled cans, bottles and old tyres, and helps them live almost entire self-sufficiently. In the second episode of Euronews Green's new video series Low ...

Covered head to toe in blankets on a sunny fall day, 90-year-old Russell Keich stared in still silence at the pot of ashes in his lap, a photo of his mother in the weedy grass before him. He was there ...

If you’re looking for an interesting place to stay in New Mexico, an earthen home could be your next stop. AirBnB offers ...