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 …
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 …
Can suburban homesteads lead to higher well-being? by Kirsten Dirksen on September 25, 2011 “I think a majority of economists would agree that we’re at a fundamental turning point in terms of our financial …
