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KUOW's environment beat brings you stories on the ongoing cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, alternative energy, the health of the Puget Sound, coal transportation and more. We're also partnered with several stations across the Northwest to bring you environmental news via EarthFix.

Free Houses For All, If You Build It Out Of Trash

KUOW Photo/Matthew Streib
Roxanne Fonder Reeve (red jacket) stands with volunteers from Earthship Seattle in front of their trash studio in progress.

Marcie Sillman talks with Roxanne Fonder Reeve, who, along with a slew of volunteers, is building a trash studio in her Columbia City driveway to teach people how they can build environmentally sustainable housing out of found materials.