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 …
Family builds their own private ecovillage with free materials by Kirsten Dirksen on February 18, 2024 Cameron and Janeen Schiff built their dream home out of trash and salvage, but it took 16 years to put …
Strawbale Home couple built after fire is bioclimatic marvel by Kirsten Dirksen on October 22, 2023 Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper have built natural homes with passive solar techniques and powered by renewables since the seventies, …
Made FarmBot home-kit. Now helps NASA on farming by Kirsten Dirksen on June 12, 2021 In 2014, Rory Aronson launched FarmBot, a farming robot built on open-source principles. It wasn’t long before they were noticed …
FarmBot: open-source backyard robot for automated gardening by Kirsten Dirksen on September 26, 2016 In the front yard of Rory Aronson’s San Luis Obispo home (that he shares with 9 roommates), a robot is …