Danish maker turns waste into art, furniture, vehicles & more by Kirsten Dirksen on March 11, 2018 Thomas Dambo routes his daily bike commute past neighborhood dumpsters to find materials for his builds. In the past several …
Nordic home encased within geodesic dome for passive solar by Kirsten Dirksen on February 28, 2016 In 1960 American architect/futurist Buckminster Fuller envisioned building a dome over Manhattan to regulate weather and air pollution. A half …
Denmark's organics, Spain's trains & Chad's carbon footprint by Kirsten Dirksen on February 17, 2009 At a one-year-old’s birthday last month where a typically Barcelonian mix of Brits, Americans, Spaniards, Catalans, a Dane, an Italian …
A happy hippie (unlimited) by Flora on May 28, 2008 On a visit to the Danish eco-hippy community Christiania, I started thinking: When is someone “green” enough? Is it possible …
Fleeing the "dirty hippie" ghetto by Kirsten Dirksen on September 7, 2007 Ever since I shot the flushable diaper video (featuring a far-from-overly-coiffed and-not-particularly-clean-looking me scrubbing the poop out of a diaper …
A little background on wind power by Nicolás Boullosa on June 22, 2007 Kinetic energy generated by air currents -wind- can be transformed into electricity through the conversion of wind turbine movement into …
