Building ecovillage of storm-proof homes made of bone-like biomaterial by Kirsten Dirksen on November 3, 2024 On a rural property on the slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, Morgan Bierschenk and his team have been refining …
Giant Earthship vs wildfire: Did good prepping save this ecovillage? by Kirsten Dirksen on December 17, 2023 Dan Schultz spent 15 years building his off-grid self-sufficient utopia with whimsical homes and trees and gardens that produced enough …
Couple builds off-grid ecovillage with friends & leftovers 🐎 by Kirsten Dirksen on March 26, 2023 Emma and Edo were once a hotel stage show dance team, until they quit to live out their dream of …
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 …
Rundown apartments reborn as food-forest coliving Agritopia by Kirsten Dirksen on September 26, 2021 In 2007, Ole and Maitri Ersson bought a rundown apartment complex in the city and immediately began to de-pave parking …
Found a derelict Portuguese hamlet. Settled in to revive it by Kirsten Dirksen on March 15, 2020 “Now, the rural is the revolutionary” – José Luis Peixoto Pedro Pedrosa and his wife Sofia left city life over …
Restoring medieval tower house near Sparta as life project by Kirsten Dirksen on February 17, 2019 Over 35 years ago, Kostas Zouvelos and his then-fiancé Kassiani Theodorakakou saw a for sale sign on a crumbling early …
Family fixes home in ghost-town lab & tells others to follow by Kirsten Dirksen on January 27, 2019 With 25,000 euros and 1,000 hours of work, Maurizio Cesprini and his partner Paola Gardin rebuilt a ruined home in …
Dome village inspired by Buckminster Fuller as UC Davis dorms by Kirsten Dirksen on November 20, 2016 Inspired by Buckminster Fuller, in 1972 a group of UC Davis students set out to build their own affordable tiny …
West Texas ghost town experimental construction & revival by Kirsten Dirksen on April 27, 2015 A century ago, Terlingua, Texas was a bustling mining town (by 1922 it was supplying the nation with 40% of …
