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  Are you in the market for a new home and considering starting from scratch with all-new construction? If so, then you are most likely considering ways to make your home as energy efficient as possible while still maintaining a ...

For many of us, owning a gun is all about being able to defend ourselves and protect our loved ones if needed. But how do you follow the conventional rules of gun safety – keeping your firearm unloaded and secured ...

  Although they are small, mice can cause big problems when they enter your home. They can carry and spread disease and, since they breed quickly, they can do damage to your home and your belongings if left unchecked. No ...

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 ...

Passive solar is a building design approach that incorporates certain materials into the roof, walls and floors that collect solar energy to heat a home in the winter, cool it in the summer, and heat water year-round. It’s called passive ...

Government officials in Wisconsin tried to force a family of eight people to choose between their faith and a building code. Amos and Vera Borntreger and their six children were nearly evicted from their off-grid home because it lacked, among ...

Urban areas and cities aren’t the only places where crime and theft can be a problem. Rural areas are also at risk. Here are just a few ideas for how you can keep your homestead more secure and protected. 1. ...

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 ...

There is nothing quite as powerful, dangerous and devastating as a wildfire. High temperatures, a lack of rain, and dry lightning storms have made this summer particularly bad for fires all across the country. Despite fire being a difficult element ...

All handguns in Los Angeles homes will have to be locked up or disabled with a trigger lock under a new ordinance unanimously approved by the city council this week. A similar proposal already is law in San Francisco, and ...