Human waste economy: humanure, diaper-derived concrete & more by Nicolás Boullosa on May 24, 2023 When in 1837 Ignaz Semmelweis left his merchant family from Budapest to study Law in Vienna, he was already known …
Desechos como nutrientes: experimentos con biomasa residual by Nicolás Boullosa on January 21, 2021 En su ensayo autobiográfico Tristes trópicos (1955), el antropólogo Claude Lévi-Strauss presentaba, con el tono desenfadado e irónico de un cuaderno …
Urban self-reliance: homestead in Oakland’s small rented lot by Kirsten Dirksen on April 13, 2015 Sheila Cassani began farming her rental home while a college student. She started with a small vegetable patch, but it …
Containertopia: cargo container tinyhome town on Oakland lot by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2014 Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart were tired of paying San Francisco rents and had always dreamt of living in a …
Váteres para nómadas: 10 WC baratos, portátiles y ecológicos by Nicolás Boullosa on May 21, 2014 El váter se reinventa para hacerse autónomo y portátil sin descuidar la higiene ni el entorno, tanto por necesidades de …
Self-reliance in LA: backyard farm + radical home economics by Kirsten Dirksen on May 20, 2013 Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne have been farming their yard in Los Angeles for over a decade. In addition to …
Urban composting toilet: poo from loo to garden in 1 year by Kirsten Dirksen on December 2, 2010 Flush toilets allow us to avoid confronting just how archaic our sewage systems are. Ninety percent of the world’s sewage …
