Richard Venberg owned a custom furniture/cabinet shop in Colorado when he took a major step toward becoming an architect and one of Minnesota’s leading advocates of straw-bale construction. “Basically ...

Natural materials like mud, earth and dung, as well as fibrous materials such as straw were used to build homes for centuries ...

The utilisation of straw bales in construction has attracted growing interest as a sustainable alternative to conventional building materials. Straw bale construction integrates agricultural ...

With a $50,000 award for Phase 1 of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) Natural Carbon Solutions Innovation Challenge, Greene County company Build With Nature is ...

Paloma Gormley is leading Material Cultures, which has a DIY approach to material sustainability in architecture, to build the future from the ground up. Despite decades of green certifications, ...