In a year of extreme weather events, past cataclysms help learn by Nicolás Boullosa on August 30, 2023 The Perito Moreno Glacier dam rupture is a recurrent partial collapse over the Brazo Rico and Brazo Sur branches of …
He quit all to build off-grid village, mountain-long Earthship by Kirsten Dirksen on July 16, 2023 15 years ago, Dan Schultz sold his 2600-square-foot home in Flint, Michigan and bought 160 acres of raw land near …
Pop culture’s survivalist moment: stress-test for the future by Nicolás Boullosa on August 1, 2022 Like other interests driven by enthusiasts connecting with like-minded peers over the Internet, survivalism is evolving into many trends, some …
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 …
Dignifying urban/rural lives: decentralization done right by Nicolás Boullosa on September 13, 2021 Recently, someone brought up this logical paradox: most people who are urban are not elites. And most “urban elites” grew …
Texan maker’s underground survival bunkers are real batcaves by Kirsten Dirksen on June 29, 2020 In Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road,” protagonists are surprised by marauders, but are lucky to find a well-provisioned survival shelter. In …
Ciencia ficción survivalista: subsistir en tiempos revueltos by Nicolás Boullosa on April 21, 2020 La historia quizá no se repita, pero rima, y los futuros probables a los que nos asomamos a través de …
How will we live? urban prepping & rural resilience’s momentum by Kirsten Dirksen on April 18, 2020 “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. …
Itinerancia en autocaravanas DIY: reviviendo el mito surfero by Nicolás Boullosa on February 17, 2016 En la novela de Andy Weir The Martian, su protagonista, Mark Watney, un Robinson Crusoe en Marte que se propone …
Futuro textil: tradición + etextiles, biotejidos y ecofibras by Nicolás Boullosa on November 12, 2013 Por la naturaleza de sus productos, concebidos y usados desde la prehistoria, la industria textil aprovecha innovaciones tradicionales y de …
