Giant Earthship vs wildfire: Did good prepping save this ecovillage? by Kirsten Dirksen on December 17, 2023 Dan Schultz spent 15 years building his off-grid self-sufficient utopia with whimsical homes and trees and gardens that produced enough …
Sarajevo Haggadah: teachings from a surviving book from Sepharad by Nicolás Boullosa on December 13, 2023 When done right, historical fiction broadens our understanding of things past, reminding us of the power of evocation. In our …
No bank loaned them money. They built dream Hobbit Home themselves by Kirsten Dirksen on December 10, 2023 When no bank would give them a loan for an earth-sheltered dome home, Steve Travis and Jeff Ingram began to …
Little things that count: home materials, gardening, compost by Nicolás Boullosa on December 7, 2023 We know that our lack of patience as a civilization has reached its apex when companies invest their best engineering …
Young architect’s Fairy-Tale home inspired by Nature’s spirals: awe inside 🐚 by Kirsten Dirksen on December 4, 2023 The Bloomhouse seems to erupt or grow from the ground, leaving no straight lines. It was actually hand-sculpted over the …
A quest for color: how ancient humans made enduring natural dyes by Nicolás Boullosa on November 30, 2023 Few non-fiction books turn out to be so magical and brave as to surpass a fiction reader’s expectations. Claude Lévi-Strauss …
Off-grid Hawaii dream: couple builds budget home & thriving food forest by Kirsten Dirksen on November 29, 2023 Matt Holton and Cristina Pineda were living on Maui where the average home price is a million dollars when they …
Polynesia then & now: a family visit to the Big Island of Hawaii by Nicolás Boullosa on November 26, 2023 When we recently traveled to the Big Island of Hawaii, the biggest and least populated by locals and tourists among …
He built $2K remote dome cabin amid freezing Siberian wilderness (step-by-step) by Kirsten Dirksen on November 19, 2023 Bio-architect and handyman Alosha Lynov has experienced his own Tolstoyan Odyssey: interested in natural building, he taught himself to design …
Insects: the effect of declining populations in ecosystems by Nicolás Boullosa on November 19, 2023 Insects represent by far the biggest diversity of all animals, with over a million known species of an estimated total …
