Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...
Turf homes became popular in Iceland in the 9th century. Vikings brought the grass and mud home design with them from Norway. A land of vast open spaces, steaming blue lagoons, geysers, and powerful ...
Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments. With its lonely lava fields, sheer bluffs and stark boulder-strewn plains, Iceland is ...