How to build your own eco-friendly house

BY: HANNAH THOMAS  You’ve searched and searched but you just can’t find it; you want it to have a structure that will withstand the burden of time, but won’t be costly. Well, if you can’t find it, then build it.…

This family built their own eco-house under a solar dome in the Arctic Circle (photos)

BY: SAMANTHA TAPP  How eco-friendly are you teaching your children to be? Probably not living in a self-built, sustainable, eco-home under a solar geodesic dome, eco-friendly. Hjertefølger means heart follower in Norwegian, and the Hjertefølger family are definitely living up…

You could live at this lakeside eco-hostel made entirely out of recycled materials for $2.50 a day

BY: MATTHEW CHIN In Bolivia, one of the most isolated countries on earth with most of its landscapes untapped, one woman built an environmentally friendly hostel next to the lake. Hermana Libertad dubbed her eco-hostel “Kasa cultural Sol y Luna”…

This solar-powered, recycled eco-house could float on your favorite coast

BY: MATTHEW CHIN Every sunny weekend, swarms of eager families take to the highway in a mad dash to the cottage. The beachfront cottage is a great getaway for a more relaxing escape, with the added benefits of living next…

Architects design an eco-house that’s the environmental equivalent of planting over 6,000 trees

BY: DEXTER BROWN Australian prefabricated building company ArchiBlox has built what they call “the world’s first carbon-positive prefabricated house,” according to Dezeen Magazine.  The Carbon Positive House, as it’s known, was designed to make more energy than it uses, and it drew international attention…

This Irish artist has built a house literally worth 1.4 billion Euros notes

BY: BRITTANY ROSEN Just when you thought money motive was superseding creativity, European Artist Frank Buckley builds a house made of $1.4 billion in shredded Euro notes. The artist himself is now occupying this eco-friendly house. Buckley, an all-around artist…