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 ...

Way back in the 1970s, architect Mike Reynolds got the crazy idea of building homes out of used tires and beer cans. Shortly afterwards, Earthship Biotecture (www.earthship.org) was formed. The idea ...

This is the ultimate smart house, but not because it’s run by technology. Quite the opposite, in fact. Michael Reynolds has been perfecting Earthship Biotecture for 55 years, and now he says he has ...