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 ...

I’ve heard of extremely environmentally friendly homes and communities called “Earthships” popping up across the U.S. What are they exactly? An Earthship is a kind of passive solar home — or community ...

The Earthship's foundation and exterior walls are formed of stacked tires filled with dirt and covered with adobe made from local clay, coarse sand and straw. Windows along the south side of the ...