Hot springs & human culture: the overlooked energy beneath our feet by Nicolás Boullosa on November 26, 2025 Hot springs have soothed bodies and shaped cultures from Scandinavia to Japan for thousands of years. But the same ancient …
How entire village runs fully off-grid on small hydropower & solar by Kirsten Dirksen on January 12, 2025 Thirty years ago, a group of permaculture experts purchased 329 acres of degraded land in Western North Carolina with a …
Whole ecovillage fits inside giant greenhouse: walkable, weatherproof by Kirsten Dirksen on December 9, 2024 Thirty years ago, a group of friends in British Columbia set out to create a new kind of ecovillage—and they …
Lost Valley wasteland revived as clever Restorative Ecovillage by Kirsten Dirksen on January 23, 2023 Nathaniel Nordin-Tuininga grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s living off the land with his parents on an intentional community …
Friends couldn’t afford apartments. Bought the building instead by Kirsten Dirksen on February 20, 2022 As a housekeeper, Johnny Sanphillippo couldn’t afford to buy an apartment in San Francisco, but then he heard one of …
Jack Kerouac’s boarding-house now co-living for creatives by Kirsten Dirksen on November 7, 2020 In 1953 Jack Kerouac stayed here for part of the spring, but when Sara McEre bought the former 19th-century boarding …
Experiments in tiny, communal living at former Paris hospital by Kirsten Dirksen on March 18, 2018 On the grounds of an abandoned hospital in Paris, the cabin-makers of “Yes We Camp” have installed one-of-a-kind overnight shelters: …
LA coliving: a permeable intersection between social/privacy by Kirsten Dirksen on January 8, 2017 Calling it “a social network with an address”, Los Angeles entrepreneur Elvina Beck created PodShare, a coliving experiment where dozens …
