Norcal veteran coder customizes off-grid home with sensors by Kirsten Dirksen on May 26, 2014 Loren Amelang once helped code for Silicon Valley companies, but he’d always been sensitive to environment so when his employer …
Created legendary Napa restaurant, then regenerated a farm by Kirsten Dirksen on September 10, 2012 In 1978 Don and Sally Schmitt opened a restaurant in a former french laundry in a tiny Napa Valley town. …
C++ programmer builds off-grid home with sunroom & DC lighting by Kirsten Dirksen on April 2, 2012 When Loren Amelang bought land outside of Philo, California in 1973, it was a place to “live like hippies on …
Coder’s 96-sq-ft, handbuilt zen microhome from the ’70s by Kirsten Dirksen on March 22, 2012 When Loren Amelang bought some land in the California back country in the 1970s, he had intended to use as …