Capturing the vanishing, learning to let go: on aura, photography & being present by Nicolás Boullosa on November 13, 2025 Walter Benjamin warned that machines would steal the “aura” from art. Between a celebrated old travel-photography archive and every other …
Solar sailing & the spirit of Walden: charging with the sun, thinking with Thoreau by Nicolás Boullosa on June 5, 2025 A journey that began with a baby in a pouch, a college dorm bed, and Thoreau’s pond. From solar cars …
Delivery EV turned solar-powered campervan: 100% self-reliant by Kirsten Dirksen on June 7, 2022 Believing solar vehicles were feasible beyond the lightweight Aptera and Lightyear One cars, Joel Gregory Hayes wanted to create an …
Tiny boat home packs sunroom & dock in remote kayakers’ lake by Kirsten Dirksen on October 13, 2019 To reach the Iloft floating cabin, you drive five hours north from Montreal to Quebec’s third-largest lake and then kayak …
Travel for the soul: trains, Havasupai & Camino de Santiago by Kirsten Dirksen on April 21, 2010 I’ve never understood the allure of Paris and this week, after reading Alain de Botton’s A World Without Planes, I …
The end of modern air travel, Slow Travel and airships by Kirsten Dirksen on January 24, 2009 When I’m producing a story, I often lose perspective of the humanness of the conversation and the people involved and …
