In the energy & mobility transformation, solutions come with a catch by Nicolás Boullosa on August 10, 2023 Small actions to solve complex problems can feel like drops of water on a sea of too-big-to-fix issues, an ocean …
Towable, off-grid Ecocapsule gathers energy/water anywhere by Kirsten Dirksen on July 26, 2020 Can off-grid, anywhere-living appeal the masses? The Ecocapsule mobile dwelling gathers solar/wind energy, harvests/filters water. It shelters 2 and includes …
50 years off-grid: architect-maker paradise amid NorCal redwoods by Kirsten Dirksen on April 26, 2020 In 1968, Charles Bello and his wife Vanna Rae moved onto 240 acres of redwood forest looking to live a …
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 …
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 …
Is Renzo Piano’s Academy of Sciences the greenest museum? by Kirsten Dirksen on January 24, 2011 The purpose of the California Academy of Sciences is to study the earth and science. It’s also located in one …
