Steelworker quits at 50, builds $50K cordwood home lit by colorful bottles by Kirsten Dirksen on September 13, 2026 At 50, Jason Fine walked away from his union boilermaker job and cashed out his retirement to buy 29 acres …
Housing crisis + plastic overflow = prefab made of used bottles by Kirsten Dirksen on September 10, 2023 Could two separate events, the housing crisis & plastic pollution, converge in a project to build homes? One LA-based startup …
How we live now: tips from offgridders, tinyhousers, homesteaders by Kirsten Dirksen on April 9, 2020 Resilience: “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” For some, preparing for the unexpected has been a way of …
