Cómo construir una casa móvil por menos de 3.500 dólares by Kirsten Dirksen on October 7, 2010 Siguiendo la costa, el norte de la Bahía de San Francisco alberga al residencial y bienestante condado de Marin, al …
Reclaimed, recycled, passive solar, tiny house on wheels 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 …
A tiny home on wheels: breaking with minimum size standards 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 …
DIY home for less than $3,500 by Kirsten Dirksen on August 22, 2010 In a town where the median home price is over half a million dollars, Jenine Alexander decided to build her …
You can’t eat grass: an edible yard, 9 months later by Kirsten Dirksen on June 30, 2010 In September of 2009, Cloverdale (California) resident Patty Silva-Hicks ripped out her lawn and replaced it with fruit trees and …
Sustainable yard: drip irrigation, thyme groundcover by Kirsten Dirksen on August 24, 2009 The days of installing sprinklers systems for large grass lawns may be numbered in much of the United States. A growing …
Building with straw bale, recycled bottles & urbanite by Kirsten Dirksen on August 7, 2009 Straw + clay + water = cob, an old construction technique that can be used for walls, benches and entire …
Tips from a Greywater Guerrilla: the bathroom by Kirsten Dirksen on July 14, 2009 While there’s a growing trend to re-use our home’s water (except for what we send down the toilet), there are …
How one winery creates fertility organically by Kirsten Dirksen on June 18, 2009 “A lot of the early farmers, as a lot of the farmers still do today, viewed nature as something to …
Permaculture: ecodesign and a return of the bees by Kirsten Dirksen on June 2, 2009 Permaculture is “about creating sustainable human habitats by following nature’s patterns.” For homeowners Mark Feichtmeir and Karen Boness, the permaculture …
