The listings at Airbnb sometimes reveal some pretty interesting places, and here is one that particularly caught my eye:A whimsical and romantic tower on the Santarella Estate in the Berkshires, Western Massachusetts. This two-story tiny home offers an upstairs bedroom with 35 ft. high conical ceiling and canopied bed with views of sky and trees … Read more
This 32 ft traditional canvas yurt is a beautiful one-of-a-kind 4-season yurt inspired by nature. It has been modified for the West Coast climate by adding a shingled roof, wooden siding, and extra insulation. From the outside, it looks like a round cabin but the interior still looks exactly like a yurt with canvas covers, … Read more
Plenitud Puerto Rico just finished an Intensive Professional Training in SuperAdobe building where participants built a dome structure in just three weeks. Here is a short video of Owen giving a tour of the dome.
Lumber, glass, big rocks, dirt, and sunshine is all you need for a Deep Winter Greenhouse (DWG), first described in a book by Carol Ford and Chuck Waibel in 2009 titled The Northlands Winter Greenhouse Manual. So, what is a DWG? It is a passive solar greenhouse that captures the sun’s light and heat during … Read more
A Cold War–era missile silo base in Eskridge, KS on 32 acres was converted into an underground home and has come on the market. It was built as an Atlas E missile structure in the early 1950s and was operated by the Air Force in the early 1960s, but was decommissioned in 1965 in favor … Read more
The San Isidro Permanent Education Project at Rancho El Pardo is located 3 km from the town of Tlaxco, Mexico, in a beautiful pine-oak forest that 40 years ago was an eroded area. They demonstrate construction of cob, straw-clay, straw bales, ecological toilets and much more. These photos show part of their campus. You can … Read more