A Tsimane' man floats palm thatch roof panels on a balsa wood raft down the Maniqui River for sale in the market town of San Borja, Bolivia (2013). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Traditional Danish seaweed thatching could be updated into a sustainable contemporary building material, according to research by Kathryn Larsen. Copenhagen School of Business and Design student ...

Unfortunately, thatch has become much harder to acquire as land for food has pushed the grass out. Roofs made from steel and fiberglass panels are woeful replacements, as they let in much more ...

Integrating the PV panels with the thatched roof (made of coco palm leaves) was perhaps the greatest design challenge, but they pulled it off without a hitch and we absolutely love the fusion of ...

The work has been painstakingly carried out by the Oxford-based Rumpelstiltskin Thatching Company ... lark if we were now to see this roof cloaked in solar panels? This was a tongue-in-cheek ...