casa sustentável

Science and Technology

Owner of a 980 m² house in Paraná installs 48 solar panels for R$ 70,000 and sees electricity bill drop from R$ 1,200 to around R$ 200 per month.

Noel Budeguer 20/06/2026 at 20:04

Interesting facts

In the middle of a forest in the USA, a couple transforms over 1,500 recycled tires, bottles, cans, and clay into an ecological mansion, builds 90% of the house with their own hands, and puts the nearly 7-acre self-sustaining refuge up for sale for $1.3 million.

Ana Alice 19/06/2026 at 00:04

Construction

Woman loses house in devastating fire and now sees 35 people rebuilding her home with over 350 tires, bottles, and cans in a sustainable project designed to withstand fire.

Noel Budeguer 15/06/2026 at 18:46

Sustainability

Sustainable mansion in Colorado made with over 1,500 recycled tires, clay, cans, and bottles has 414 m², solar energy, rain sensors, a stable with 23 stalls, and is for sale for $1.3 million.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 12/06/2026 at 10:50

Interesting facts

Family builds a house inside a giant greenhouse in Norway, grows fruits in winter, and creates an almost self-sufficient home with solar energy, biomass, and micro-hydroelectric power.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 12/06/2026 at 08:26

Construction

Forget bricks and cement in construction: a sustainable 150 m² house was assembled in just 4 days with a screwdriver, lightweight Lego-style blocks, and thermal insulation that reduces energy consumption without heavy concrete work, in France.

Alisson Ficher 15/05/2026 at 14:24

Construction

Family transforms trash into a house in rural São Paulo using 7,000 tires, 3,000 PET bottles, and 5,000 cans in a project that reduces water by up to 60 percent.

Noel Budeguer 04/05/2026 at 13:57

Sustainability

Spaceship-style house attracts attention by combining solar energy, water reuse, and total autonomy in an innovative housing model.

Caio Aviz 14/04/2026 at 16:30

Sustainability

With earth, bamboo, straw, and lime mortar, a specialist builds a house for just over $460 and draws attention for its cost being much lower than traditional construction.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 26/03/2026 at 13:15

homem constrói casa sozinho em 500 dias com estrutura robusta e isolamento térmico eficiente

Construction

Alone for 500 Days, Calculating Every Brick, Rejecting Modern Construction Shortcuts, and Starting from Scratch, Man Builds Millimeter-Precise, Efficient House Designed to Last Over 100 Years

Felipe Alves da Silva 12/02/2026 at 12:23

Homem ergue casa com paletes, usa pneus na fundação, garrafas no isolamento e transforma lixo em moradia, mostrando que dá para construir do zero com materiais reutilizados

Interesting facts

Man Builds House with Pallets, Uses Tires for Foundation, Bottles for Insulation, and Turns Trash into Housing, Proving It’s Possible to Build from Scratch with Reused Materials

Geovane Souza 09/02/2026 at 15:04

Família em Seara constroi casa ecológica de 300 m² com pedra, barro e madeira reaproveitada, gasta 70% menos que construção comum e ainda vive até 10 graus fresca o ano (1)

Construction

Family in Seara Builds 300 M² Eco-Friendly House with Stone, Clay, and Reused Wood, Spending 70% Less than Conventional Construction and Living Up to 10 Degrees Cooler Year-Round

Carla Teles 08/02/2026 at 17:14

Owner of a 980 m² house in Paraná installs 48 solar panels for R$ 70,000 and sees electricity bill drop from R$ 1,200 to around R$ 200 per month.

In the middle of a forest in the USA, a couple transforms over 1,500 recycled tires, bottles, cans, and clay into an ecological mansion, builds 90% of the house with their own hands, and puts the nearly 7-acre self-sustaining refuge up for sale for $1.3 million.

Woman loses house in devastating fire and now sees 35 people rebuilding her home with over 350 tires, bottles, and cans in a sustainable project designed to withstand fire.

Sustainable mansion in Colorado made with over 1,500 recycled tires, clay, cans, and bottles has 414 m², solar energy, rain sensors, a stable with 23 stalls, and is for sale for $1.3 million.

Family builds a house inside a giant greenhouse in Norway, grows fruits in winter, and creates an almost self-sufficient home with solar energy, biomass, and micro-hydroelectric power.

Forget bricks and cement in construction: a sustainable 150 m² house was assembled in just 4 days with a screwdriver, lightweight Lego-style blocks, and thermal insulation that reduces energy consumption without heavy concrete work, in France.

Family transforms trash into a house in rural São Paulo using 7,000 tires, 3,000 PET bottles, and 5,000 cans in a project that reduces water by up to 60 percent.

Spaceship-style house attracts attention by combining solar energy, water reuse, and total autonomy in an innovative housing model.

With earth, bamboo, straw, and lime mortar, a specialist builds a house for just over $460 and draws attention for its cost being much lower than traditional construction.

Alone for 500 Days, Calculating Every Brick, Rejecting Modern Construction Shortcuts, and Starting from Scratch, Man Builds Millimeter-Precise, Efficient House Designed to Last Over 100 Years

Man Builds House with Pallets, Uses Tires for Foundation, Bottles for Insulation, and Turns Trash into Housing, Proving It’s Possible to Build from Scratch with Reused Materials

Family in Seara Builds 300 M² Eco-Friendly House with Stone, Clay, and Reused Wood, Spending 70% Less than Conventional Construction and Living Up to 10 Degrees Cooler Year-Round

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Hidden beneath a small entrance in Namibia’s underground, the largest underground lake in the world is the size of 2 football fields, 264 meters deep, and even has rare animals that survive without sunlight.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.