Natural building vindication: climate, comfort, health, budget by Kirsten Dirksen on September 25, 2010 Until relatively recently we all built our homes from local, unprocessed materials (i.e. stone, wood, straw, earth). Then came the …
Cargobikes as business tool: an ice cream trike in Brooklyn by Kirsten Dirksen on September 19, 2010 An ice cream truck is to the suburbs what an ice cream trike is to New York City. The logical …
3D printers or the dream of machines that replicate themselves by Kirsten Dirksen on September 18, 2010 Now that the open-source concept has migrated from software to hardware- see open-source car (OScar), phone (Openmoko), house (OS-house)- it’s …
3D printing living up to its hype? Rise & fall of MakerBot by Kirsten Dirksen on September 14, 2010 Imagine instead of going to the store, simply downloading what you need from the Internet and printing it out on …
Crowdsourcing tiny home design (a 420-sq-ft Soho pad) by Kirsten Dirksen on September 11, 2010 The average home size in the U.S. doubled in the past century but happiness levels stayed flat. Serial entrepreneur Graham …
Graham Hill’s 350-square-foot bachelor micro-studio by Kirsten Dirksen on September 9, 2010 Graham Hill has started and sold successful businesses (including TreeHugger.com), graced the cover of Inc Magazine and the centerfold of …
TreeHugger.com founder Graham Hill on LifeEdited by Kirsten Dirksen on September 5, 2010 If the 20th century was about supersizing our food, stuff, cars and homes, the 21st century-according to TreeHugger.com founder Graham …
Hester Street Fair: homemade, homegrown, hyperlocal shopping by Kirsten Dirksen on September 2, 2010 For over a century Hester Street has been home to New York City’s biggest and oldest pushcart markets, so when …
128-sq-foot tiny house on wheels made from salvage by Kirsten Dirksen on August 23, 2010 Jenine Alexander built her own home using reclaimed materials she found at the dump or off craigslist. Total cost: the …
Sonoma County tiny homes on wheels’ pioneers: Forge Ahead by Kirsten Dirksen on August 23, 2010 Many communities, counties and states in the U.S. have minimum size standards, meaning that there are homes that are just …
