When Brian and Jess Johnson drove to Taos, New Mexico, for a getaway weekend from Colorado in 2016, they had no inkling the trip would change their lives and their notions of a dream house in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the ultimate smart house, but not because it’s run by technology. Quite the opposite, in fact. Michael Reynolds has been ...

In this video, we look at the most innovative, affordable, and sustainable earthship houses built today. Building an earthship home is more friendly to the environment because it uses recycled ...

Colorado resident Arianna Danielson (@arianna_danielson) showed off the ventilation system of her unique home on TikTok recently. "No AC no problem," Arianna wrote in the video caption. "Here's how we ...

WESTMINSTER WEST — For the past four years, John Grant has been building an Earthship on 12 acres of land in Westminster West. Earthships are a newly emerging architectural style of off-the-grid ...

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 ...

Along a rural road in northern New Mexico, homes rise from the dusty desert with futuristic shapes resembling something from another planet. They are known as Earthships: off-the-grid homes built into ...

For our final stop. We're checking into *** house that is quite literally off the grid. Michael doesn't build the same house twice. So every house is gonna look different. The Michael Julie is ...

John DeMatteis stands outside his Earthship home near Buffalo. "I'll drive by a beautiful home and I'll think, 'That's gorgeous, but what a waste of energy,'" DeMatteis said. The Earthship design and ...

On Thursday, I caught a segment on Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now about Michael Reynolds, a renegade architect living near Taos, New Mexico. Although I try to follow developments in sustainable ...

John DeMatteis and his wife, Laura, live in an Earthship carved into the side of one of the rolling ridges of the Big Horn Mountains, miles from the nearest neighbor. About the length of a basketball ...