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Projects are featured that have incorporated solar building, design, and development practices anywhere in the world.

Bioshelter Greenhouse (North Carolina, USA)

A green building for green plants. by Mother Earth News, June 1985 In our last issue, we reviewed the progress made at — and plans for — ...more

Cargotecture Brings Cargo Containers Home

A Recycled Green Building System The term Cargotecture was coined by HyBrid Architecture of Seattle 2003 to describe any building system built ...more

Chicago Residential Wind Turbine (Illinois, USA)

Doug Snower's neighbors in Highland Park stared hard when the silver and blue wind turbine first appeared on his garage roof. While it could pass for ...more

Earth Sheltered Greenhouse (Idaho, USA)

by Mike Oehler Mother Earth News March 2004 Ninety frost-free days here in the mountains of Idaho close to the Canadian border are not enough to ...more

EcoSense House Has Style, Zero Waste

For a Vancouver Island, Canada, couple, the objective was to live a reasonable life where their home becomes an extension of nature; where the ...more

Florida Solar Cracker House

This document describes an energy efficient, solar-powered home that was built near Interlachen, Florida. The original owners/designers lived in the ...more

Flying Cloud Home To EcoTravelers (USA)

In the summer of 2009, Kate and John departed on a cross-country journey of discovery and celebration, hope and serendipity. Using a vintage 1962 ...more

Low Impact Woodland Home (Wales)

The low impact, organic design, woodland home built by Simon Dale in Wales conjures images of Hobbits baking bread in tiny hand-made ovens and ...more

Oregon Bungalow Is Recycled And Passive

Over eight years, working nights and weekends, architect Ryan Walsh completely gutted his 1925 bungalow in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Portland, ...more

Solar Greenhouse

by JACK RUTTLE Organic Farming and Gardening Magazine August 1978 ALMOST ANY STRUCTURE that is built to look like a solar greenhouse will work. ...more

Wales Institute Educates Sustainably

by Ellis Woodman - The Wales Institute for Sustainable Education at the Centre for Alternative Technology is an impressive physical embodiment of the ...more

William Kamkwamba Gets High On Wind

by William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer - In 2002, I built my first of several windmills to provide my family with electricity and irrigation. This was ...more

Yurt Construction On The Go (Central Asia)

Nomadic Mongolians, Turkomen, Kazakhs, Uzbeks and Kyrgyz wander and dwell in an area of the Asian steppe that stretches from the Caspian Sea to ...more