Learn about the advantages of building a home using cordwood construction. Unabashedly, I admit to two great love affairs in my life: with Jaki, my wife of 30 years, and (this one is shared with Jaki) ...

After nearly 30 years of living and working in Madison, Wisconsin, we longed for a rural home. We’d spent several frustrating years looking for rural property, but anything with livable buildings ...

When Alan Stankevitz bought land near La Crescent, Minn., he knew he wanted to build an eco-friendly home there. But he wasn't sure what kind. An earth-sheltered house? "You need a crew to pour the ...

WEST CHAZY, N.Y. — The dumbest robins in New York state live on a ledge outside Rob Roy’s kitchen window. Or at least they would like to roost there. On a recent Monday morning, Roy, 65, and his wife, ...

WHITE EARTH, Minn. -- A northern Minnesota school teacher will soon move into an unusual new home built of firewood logs. It's part of an effort to create affordable, energy-efficient homes on the ...

KALAMAZOO, MI – This is not your ordinary log cabin. On a four-degree morning in Kalamazoo, masons were hard at work on cordwood construction, which as far as the builders and Kalamazoo College know, ...

Standing in the airy, pine-ceilinged main room in her dodecahedral cordwood house in South Paris, surrounded by mortared walls dotted with the cut ends of logs, Sophia Maamouri says she wanted her ...