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 ...

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 ...

Mud huts are normally associated with the most basic level of just-scraping-by living: utilitarian, cheap, but hardly the height of design (or even comfort). The Nka Foundation wondered what would ...

He starts building simple mud huts in the forest. Then it keeps getting better — structure, details, and somehow bright ...

Using only mud, water, and natural tools, we set out to build vibrant, handcrafted huts for forest living. These structures are not just shelters - they’re expressions of creativity and tradition, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A baby born in an African mud hut before being adopted and moving to the United States ended up saving her mother’s life after returning 30 years later. Graci Harkema, 35, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, ...

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 ...

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 ...