Home for Healing, a nonprofit organization providing free lodging for families of hospital patients, has announced an expansion of its services to accommodate m ...

Not all 'miracle' homes that survived LA's recent wildfires were saved by luck alone. From steel-reinforced walls to ember-resistant vents, learn how strategic construction choices helped some ...

Creating comfort in a primitive lifestyle is a constant challenge. Now that I have a good number of adobe bricks I feel that it is time to make a new survival shelter. Soon I will begin making the new ...

Senior metals columnist who previously covered industrial metals markets for Metals Week and was EMEA commodities editor at Knight-Ridder (subsequently Bridge). Started up Metals Insider in 2003 ...