Rocinante’s descendants: why it’s not enough that everything functions by Nicolás Boullosa on April 9, 2026 What we lose when we stop naming the things we use and let systems optimize everything for us. On someone’s …
Veterans buy dirt-cheap land to build off-grid coliving homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on April 5, 2026 On 4 acres of inexpensive desert land in Arizona, Kenny Quinn—a veteran turned earth builder—helped create a radically affordable cohousing …
It all started with 28 homes. A walkable food-forest made it a village oasis by Kirsten Dirksen on March 29, 2026 In Tucson’s western foothills, 28 households have spent 28 years building something that most neighborhoods have lost — a place …
Aspirational inefficiency: dispatches on the rise of pickup trucks as lifestyle by Nicolás Boullosa on March 26, 2026 From workhorse to wish fulfillment, the pickup truck is often a vehicle that carries less in its bed than in …
Rebuilding abandoned giant Earthship into 3-story, off-grid home ecosystem by Kirsten Dirksen on March 22, 2026 What does it take to rebuild an abandoned giant off-grid Earthship into a fully working 3-story home? About 45 minutes …
Nature’s hidden infrastructure: how fungi shape the world beneath us by Nicolás Boullosa on March 19, 2026 They are the first wave of life after fire. Yet fungi, usually overlooked, do far more: shaping medicine, fermentation, and …
30 years fine-tuning micro-homestead oasis: nothing missing, little extra by Nicolás Boullosa on March 15, 2026 For nearly 30 years, David and Pearl Omick have been fine-tuning a tiny, portable home in the Sonoran Desert—an 8×16-foot …
What if? The fork in the road the world missed in the 1970s by Nicolás Boullosa on March 11, 2026 Today’s crises are not sudden; they are the slow release of tensions accumulated since the 1970s pivot from production to …
Nordic homestead near Russian border: couple’s no-bank, no-phone life by Kirsten Dirksen on March 8, 2026 “I’ve only worked for pay for 3 weeks in my entire life. I’m 60.” Yet Lasse Nordlund has never stopped …
Being outdoors all year without being outside: do courtyards make sense? by Nicolás Boullosa on March 4, 2026 From the Alhambra to California backyards, an ancient architectural typology shows how patios, plants, and water create microclimates, social space, …
