In the early 90s, Mark and Jen Shepard bought a degraded corn farm in Viola, Wisconsin, and began to slowly convert it from row-crops back to a native oak savanna that would become one of the most productive perennial farms…

Danny and Katherine built a gorgeous house made of cob – a sustainable and natural material made from sand, clay, and straw. You’d never know that a house made from such material could be so beautiful! Cob building gets its…

This is a very cool instant hot water heater that can run off of regular cooking/vegetable oil and generate heat/hot water for your home for up to 24 hours running on a single small tank of oil. This instant hot…

In 2018, the team printed their first home in 10 days using local earth (30% clay, 40% silt, 30% sand), 40% chopped rice straw, 25% rice husk, and 10% lime. “Gaia” cost 900 euros (1,000 dollars) in materials for 30…

When Renee Miller and Tim Beissinger (better known as the @ThruHikers) set out on their big adventure for 2022 — a canoeing and hiking route through the Pacific Northwest covering 2,700+ miles in 106 days — they decided to document…

In 1963, a man in the Nevşehir Province of Turkey knocked down a wall in his basement and ended up discovering a gigantic underground city. The man sledgehammered his wall and found a tunnel behind it, then he found more…

Asian farmers and gardeners have worn these funny blue clothes for millennia to repel ticks, mosquitoes, snakes and other pests Today, most of our blue jeans and other denim clothing are made with toxic, synthetic indigo dye that’s bad for…

This man’s forest garden produces tons of food, while practically tending itself! Historically, farms and forests have been at odds. Conventional wisdom says we have to cut down the forest to make way for agriculture. But a growing movement called…

Bruce Campbell, 73, lives in a Boeing 727 200-passenger jetliner that is 1,066 square feet and weighs around 70,000 pounds. He bought the plane for $100,000 in 1999 and spends $370/month on property taxes and electricity. As an electrical engineer,…

Earthbag construction can be a wonderful way to build a small (or large) home. Earthbag houses are typically simple to design and build, especially when building a dome-shaped home. These little structures can be adorned with a living roof, or…