No More Treating Soil Like Dirt Beach, North Dakota Zook were watching their precious farmland dry up and blow away. Constant wind erosion and an annual rainfall of only fourteen inches was making farming an unending, uphill struggle against nature. Mike realized his farming methods were going to have to change. While the colors of […]
Mac Watson
Dirt Rich Santa Fe, New Mexico · By Charlie Laurel The story of adobe building is as old as dirt – as old as sun-baked mud bricks, and almost as widespread as human beings themselves. “Eighty to ninety percent of the structures in the world that people live in are earthen structures. It’s only in […]
Susie Harrington and w/Gaia Design
Designing from the Outside In Moab, Utah · By Roger Clark Susie Harrington sits cross-legged on the floor of her living room, which doubles as a yoga studio. “Buildings consume approximately one-half of the energy in this country,” she says, then pauses, allowing her group of visitors to write notes. “One of my goals is […]
Solar Design & Construction
Building for the People Flagstaff, Arizona · By Ashley Rood and Peter Friederici When Ed Dunn was a nine-year-old boy growing up in the then small city of Phoenix, his aunt came out from Kansas and rented an old adobe house for the summer. Ed still remembers how that traditional building was much cooler than […]