BERKELEY — The three little pigs got it wrong, says Craig Alderson, who chose straw over bricks for the cottage he’s building in his south Berkeley backyard. The walls of the 438-square-foot dwelling ...

One of the world’s oldest insulation materials has breathed new life into a leaky cottage in Ontario’s Lake of Bays. Architecture firm Stone’s Throw Design and construction company Fourth Pig teamed ...

Straw bale building offers an affordable, sustainable solution to materials like concrete. Sigi Koko of Down to Earth Design demonstrated straw bale building will work even in wet climates with the ...

Emily Nyokka watched her mother, an artist, help build their circular house made of hay bales and stucco in southern Humboldt County when she was a child back in 1997. The home sits in an open space ...