Engineering Your Environment: Examples of Sustainable Housing in Rural Alabama

In a rural town in northeast Alabama, four families live in four very interesting homes.  Twice yearly these families kindly open their doors to visitors from across the nation, in hopes of inspiring personal responsibility and teaching people about sustainable living.  The 3-hour walking tour includes a dodeca-yurt, an underground home, a strawbale house, and a homemade house that combines dozens of passive strategies for self-sustaining, eco-friendly living.

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What About Winter Climates

I found this article very interesting. While I think these kinds of homes can work in the S.E. or other places that don't have a frigid Winter to contend with I'm wondering what kind of sustainable housing could be used in those climates. I'd like to see some articles pertaining to that subject.

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