Metal is not the only roofing material with sustainable properties. However, its combined durability and sustainability could make it a good investment for your ecological house.

NOEM designed the Ecological House 3.0, a smart bioclimatic prefab home that can be controlled from a smartphone to achieve maximum energy efficiency.

Eco-homes may seem gimmicky to those of us in inefficient, 1,000+-square-feet houses, but we probably shouldn’t throw stones until we’ve tried living in a paper house ourselves.

Does that mean that if you live in an older house you should replace your single-glazed windows? The return on such an investment comes in two forms - saving money and helping the environment.

These exciting and comfortable designs from the new book Small Eco Houses show what's possible, and sustainable, in under 2,500 square feet.

To celebrate Earth Day, here’s a sampling of residential designs that offer eco-friendly features.

Recently a reader asked me to define "ecological house." It's a fair question, so long as one realizes that "green building" and ecological design are still-developing, experimental fields. There ...

As a nation, or as a global community, we can bounce back from losing a town or two. How about losing 1,000 towns?

Instead of a traditional roof, ecological house has a layer of soil, protecting the house from low winter and high summer temperatures. In addition, walls are protected from erosion.