Friendship: when togetherness fights alienation (& housing costs) by Nicolás Boullosa on September 25, 2024 Our culture wars contribute to the decline of genuine friendships and emotional bonds. Could co-living be a solution for some …
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 …
How Pocket Hoods that work like villages boost people’s wellbeing by Kirsten Dirksen on May 8, 2022 From agile neighborhoods for veterans or the unhoused to pocket hoods for Portlanders, the dozens of co-housing villages designed by …
The Shack: how a forester kickstarted restorative farmsteading by Nicolás Boullosa on March 23, 2022 “Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know-how. …
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 …