Urban goats for organic raw milk in a San Francisco backyard by Kirsten Dirksen on December 5, 2011 Heidi Kooy lives in a fairly dense part of San Francisco- her row house touches her neighbors’- with just 1000 …
Tiny, portable, prefab cube shelters in medieval French town by Kirsten Dirksen on December 1, 2011 They’re just 3 meters (9.8 feet) by 3 meters and just about as high. They’d make great tiny homes, but …
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 …
Guerrilla grafters: adding fruit to city trees by faircompanies on November 13, 2011 The Guerrilla Grafters are a group of San Franciscans who believe urban trees are a precious thing to waste 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 …
A former garage becomes tiny home in Bordeaux, France by faircompanies on October 22, 2011 Jérémie Buchholtz wanted an affordable apartment in Bordeaux- he’s a photographer who splits his time between Paris and Bordeaux so …