California shipping container tiny home & cargo trailer room by Kirsten Dirksen on November 26, 2011 Lulu is a single mom who’d gone back to school and didn’t have the time or interest in working full-time …
Cultured food guide: pickles, living soda, veggies, and more by Kirsten Dirksen on November 21, 2011 For Alex Hozven food is either living or dead. At her Cultured Pickle Shop in Berkeley, California, she tends 20,000 …
Folding moped & EV motorcycle that can’t fall via gyroscope by Kirsten Dirksen on November 14, 2011 Danny Kim has started his own car company, though, except for the old Land Rover he converted to run on …
Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms by Kirsten Dirksen on November 6, 2011 In 2005, third-grade-teacher Eric Schneider bought an apartment in Manhattan as big as he could afford. He paid $235,000 for …
Steve Job’s Google of the 60s: Whole Earth + homestead tour by Kirsten Dirksen on October 31, 2011 Steve Jobs called The Whole Earth Catalog “one of the bibles of my generation”. He went on to explain in …
Low-rent live aboard life in high-rent San Francisco Bay by Kirsten Dirksen on October 24, 2011 Fiver Brown is a musician and the kind of guy who has worked as a rodeo clown, a sushi photographer …
Slow renaissance of medieval ghost town in Spanish Pyrenees by Kirsten Dirksen on October 18, 2011 Fifty or sixty years ago, residents of small rural Spanish towns abandoned their centuries-old villages in search of a new …
Medieval Spanish ghost town now self-sufficient ecovillage by Kirsten Dirksen on October 17, 2011 It’s a utopian fantasy- discover a ghost town and rebuild it in line with your ideals-, but in Spain where …
Future of meat? edible bugs as low waste, homegrown protein by Kirsten Dirksen on October 9, 2011 Mónica Martínez thinks Americans are ready to embrace entomophagy (bug-eating) and she’s launched an edible bug food cart (Don Bugito) …
Microbuilder on freedom of tiny homes: few codes, no loans by Kirsten Dirksen on October 3, 2011 Derek “Deek” Diedricksen’s backyard is filled with- what to the untrained eye- might appear children’s forts, but these tiny dwellings …