As the demand for sustainable and energy-efficient construction continues to rise, more builders are turning to cob—a natural building material made from clay, sand, straw, and water.

Balecob, a hybrid of straw and cob house building techniques, can offer unique flexibility to the natural builder. Start with a strong cob house stem wall. We live in exciting times for natural ...

Maria Marabito is a writer who specializes in sustainable travel, green living, and food issues. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from West Chester University. A cob house is an earthen ...

From earthships to container homes, sustainable architecture only continues to get more popular. One type of building that's making its way out of the off-grid margins is the cob house. Made of a ...

Brian Liloia, a former Green Building Elements writer and a resident of an eco-village called The Dancing Rabbit, recently self-published his first book, "The of Year of Mud: Building a Cob House".

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For millennia, people have made durable homes from whatever is nearby. You're probably familiar with adobe, that smooth brown material that lots of us equate with architecture in the American ...

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Cob construction has been used for thousands of years, but modern building codes have yet to catch up. Ziggy Liloia was the lead builder of this cob cottage at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Missouri.

Making homes out of clay, sand and straw — a material called “cob” — might raise eyebrows in earthquake country, but Bay Area devotees are hoping to gain acceptance for what they say is an inexpensive ...