When we moved into our house, there was a shed in the garden. Its timbers were rotten, the floor had long since disappeared ...

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 ...

David and Carrie Chew live in a house made of straw. It has two bathrooms, a modern kitchen and a packed earthen floor. The exterior walls are made with stacked wheat straw bales covered in plaster.

VINES is growing in Binghamton, and setting a new industry standard for green construction in the process. VINES — Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc. — set the first straw bale at ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- The Volunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments, Inc., or VINES, is set for the new headquarters building to place its first straw bale at the Susquehanna Street location.

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 ...

For example, the 30-by-15 foot storage building that Spencer helped build last summer that holds 20 tons of potatoes cost about $2,000, or one-fourth less than what it would cost if it had been built ...

One straw that businessmen have clung to during Depression II has been the steadiness of building as compared with virtually every other major U. S. industry. Although new construction was at such low ...

With free time and the proper tools, kids can really put their creativity to work. The Kids’ Construction Challenge Tuesday at the Grand Island Library yielded projects that were towering, strong, ...