Sustainability is a hip buzzword in travel these days, which means, of course, that the term is overused and nobody knows what it really means anymore. Reusing hotel towels and ditching plastic straws ...

TAOS, New Mexico — Old tires, crumpled cans and empty wine bottles are piling up at construction sites across the desert. A renewed purpose awaits these discarded items, which will become the building ...

[Photo: Build for Tomorrow/courtesy Earthship Biotecture] This is a future Michael Reynolds, a New Mexico-based architect and creator of a concept he calls “Earthship Biotecture,” envisioned over 40 ...

Heading northwest from Taos, New Mexico, the sparse, sage-filled desert soon begins to sparkle as looming, Seussian structures appear in the distance. Earthships, as these buildings are called, may ...

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Homes called Earthships have been sprouting up across the globe for the past 30 years, and Earthship Biotecture’s mission “to find and distribute knowledge about sustainable lifestyles” continues to ...

New Mexico residents are trying to a break free from Los Alamos’ nuclear legacy by creating more environmentally sound ways of living. At the forefront of this struggle is renegade architect Michael ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Andrea Sachs, The Washington Post I have never felt so righteous about flushing. At most eco-lodgings, I experience a pinch of guilt over pressing the ...

Earthship homes are typically solar-heated buildings%2C often made of tires There are about 2%2C000 earthship homes around the world Building an earthship home can be difficult because of local ...