Witness the fascinating process of survival building as a skilled outdoorsman constructs a sturdy A-frame hut and a unique multi-level natural pool in the heart of the wilderness. Using only primitive ...

Used properly, mud can be a free and durable building material that will stand for generations, while offering a sort of natural air conditioning. And when reinforced with sand, clay, or cement, mud ...

WAYLAND -- Breanna Hupp stomped barefoot in a mud pit, mixing the dirt and water to just the right consistency -- not too thick and not too runny. As Hupp, a Wayland High School senior, marched in the ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkar/local-wkar-914200.mp3 OKEMOS, MI – In the backyard of an Okemos home is the beginning of a 16th century ...

A group of mud-covered Wayland students drew some curious stares from people driving down Superior Street last week. While it may have looked like the students were playing in the mud instead of ...

The challenge for this year’s Mud House Design competition in Ghana was to design a single-family unit on a plot no larger than 60 x 60 feet at a cost of no more than $6,000 (excluding land cost). The ...

Indra Tamang, who grew up in a mud hut in rural Nepal, now owns two apartments at one of New York City’s best-known addresses, after the wealthy family he worked for bequeathed them to him. Tamang, 57 ...

Girindra Nath Jha was born and raised in the tiny village of Chanka, a settlement in the state of Bihar in northern India, close to the Nepal border. It's mostly grassy fields and mud huts with ...

What image comes to mind? We've spent a fair amount of real estate in our past newsletters discussing coded words and phrases — shortcuts that writers use to evoke images or themes, often unfairly. An ...

Then they spotted two men running away from a small walled compound in the trees. Inside, in front of a mud-brick hut, the troops pulled back a carpet on the ground, cleared away the dirt and revealed ...