Master/disciple movie saga: SPA (Socrates>Plato<Aristotle) by Nicolás Boullosa on June 16, 2015 Last summer, while I was taking a walk in Northern California after reading some excerpts of “Classical Greece” by C.M. …
Experiments in small space gardening in Mexico City by Kirsten Dirksen on June 15, 2015 In the ruins of an old storage building, young urban farmers in Mexico City’s Roma District are experimenting with how …
Lloyd Kahn on his NorCal self-reliant half-acre homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on May 18, 2015 At 80 years old, Lloyd Kahn is an icon of alternative housing. In the seventies he was a poster child …
A spaghetti western on lean urbanism (documentary) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 11, 2015 What makes a good shelter? For thousands of years we’ve been attempting to regulate the idea. Even the bible had …
Urban self-reliance: homestead in Oakland’s small rented lot by Kirsten Dirksen on April 13, 2015 Sheila Cassani began farming her rental home while a college student. She started with a small vegetable patch, but it …
Coche del futuro: de plataformas modulares a personalización by Nicolás Boullosa on April 9, 2015 En la novela de ciencia ficción El valle de las adelfas fosforescentes, una historia distópica ambientada en el valle de …
Farm-to-table organic produce growing in dense Hong Kong by Kirsten Dirksen on March 23, 2015 Hong Kong is one of the densest cities in the world (in some parts there are 400,000 people living in …
Life on the road: converted budget eurovan as trip home by Kirsten Dirksen on March 9, 2015 At 25 years old, Robin Raindropcatcher had never owned a car and didn’t have a driver’s license, but he dreamed …
Dune Shacks: taste of Cape Cods’ floating, well-aged homes by Kirsten Dirksen on December 15, 2014 They are 19 worn-down and well-aged shacks that sit at the edge of the continent. They’re surrounded by sand- Thoreau …
Teens create automated aeroponics garden kit with NASA tech by Kirsten Dirksen on December 8, 2014 15-year-old Erik Meike and Briana Das, along with their 12-year-old sisters Elise and Leona (respectively) wanted to create a “No-Touch …
