Home designers may focus on the setting for their designs but the ideal for ecologically sound development is simply minimizing or completely negating the impact of development. Making the house “disappear” by blending the development into the surrounding landscape is one design development finding a degree of credibility after a shaky start. Painting existing development [...]

The term “earthship” is a bit of an overstatement. The name connotes an earthen vessel which slowly creeps over the sea or air, perhaps carrying with it a crew representing earth’s only hope. The reality, while cool, is not nearly that cool. The earthships of reality are made by Earthship Biotecture of Taos, New Mexico [...]

The North Pole is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where Earth’s surface meets Earth’s axis of rotation. It is the point farthest North on this Earth. It is as far North as you can get. It is smack dab in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic is full of ice burgs and [...]

The Ontario College of Art and Design is Canada’s “university of the imagination” and it’s not hard to see why – the building itself defies the imagination – stacked atop colorful pixie-stick like pillars this lego-like structure seems to teeter above the roofline (it looks like a colorful version of those walking things in Star [...]

Meet Klara Marosszeky.  She has been working for 10 years to create viable building material out of…hemp. That wall she’s leaning against?  Yep.  Made out of hemp.  Hemp and lime, pressed into a form.  The substance hardens and ta da!  You’ve got hempcrete.  The advantages of this method are numerous.  The building material is resistant [...]