The timber-framed Turf House was commissioned by an ambitious couple set on building a low-energy eco-home and was completed for approximately $337,000 USD, including the cost of the land ($64,000 USD ...

Thirteen 8th grade (13-year-olds) students from the Egilsstadir elementary school recently built a traditional Icelandic turf house. The project is one of many which students can participate in during ...

Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments. With its lonely lava fields, sheer bluffs and stark boulder-strewn plains, Iceland is ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...