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Turning a cave into a modern home is not easy or cheap, as homeowner Angelo Mastropietro discovered. He invested £162,000 ($204,000) – and lots of physical labor — to transform an abandoned cave into a state-of-the-art off-grid home. But he ...

Imagine living in a home where it never gets above 80 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer – without using air conditioning. And during winter, even without heat, it’s always in the 60s. Sound impossible? It’s not if you live in ...

As someone who lived for more than three decades in an underground house he designed and built for $50 and then later expanded for $500, Mike Oehler has a mission. Now in his 70s, Oehler wants to convince other people ...

  The Environmental Protection Agency is not protecting underground drinking water supplies from oilfield contamination and in several instances has allowed companies actually to dump wastewater into aquifers, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report. The ...

Living underground may sound like the realm of Hobbits and Hollywood movies, but for many off-gridders, it is day-to-day reality. These homesteaders and off-gridders have chosen to ignore the conventional path and instead live in earth-sheltered or earth-berm homes, which ...

Drilling a well is a rather expensive operation, often costing several thousand dollars. But if you’re going to drill your own well, the first question you’re going to need to ask yourself is: Where? Where is the best place on ...

There seems to be some misconceptions about underground homes. Some people instantly think of dark, dingy places akin to some kind of emergency shelter. Others immediately think of the cozy Hobbit holes in the Tolkien books and films. Underground or ...

Nothing ruins a morning stroll through the garden faster than the sight of crops damaged by “nuisance” animals. There can be no doubt that burrowing animals can cause a great deal of damage, both physical and economic, to crops and ...

It seems like having a shelter and an indestructible bug-out vehicle is the ultimate in preparation dreams. There are several companies manufacturing shelters just for preppers, as well as lots of people who are buying shipping containers and burying them ...

The demand for survival shelters is now so great that a Los Angeles area businessman is making a good living building custom shelters for well-heeled professionals. Ron Hubbard of Montebello, Calif., is building shelters that have all the comforts of ...