Productive idleness? from the Roman “otium” to no-screen nights by Nicolás Boullosa on March 13, 2024 Or, why quality downtime might be the secret superpower of high achievers, healthy people who don’t need to show off …
Post-rumination: how a writer & a songwriter overcame depression by Nicolás Boullosa on September 20, 2023 Less known than the current enfant terrible of French literature Michel Houellebecq, writer Emmanuel Carrère published an engaging yet painful …
Nature, nurture: Spinoza & Giordano Bruno on things big/small by Nicolás Boullosa on October 18, 2021 In 1927, French novelist Romain Rolland wrote a letter to Sigmund Freud in which he described why humans might be …
Watch *faircompanies' 10 most popular videos of 2012 by faircompanies on December 29, 2012 It’s been six years since Kirsten Dirksen began video-editing *faircompanies’ videos on simple living and sustainability. Four years after launching …
How I made “We the Tiny House People” by Kirsten Dirksen on April 23, 2012 These days, I see small homes everywhere and just released a documentary on the topic (watch “We the Tiny House …
Watch *faircompanies' 10 most popular videos so far by faircompanies on December 11, 2011 It’s been a long time since Kirsten Dirksen began video-editing *faircompanies’ videos on simple living and sustainability. More than three …
Alternative American Dream: less house & stuff, more travel by Kirsten Dirksen on June 13, 2011 Last year, Peter and Mary Rowan found the perfect home to provide more space for their family of five. Just as …
Backyard farmers by necessity: self-sufficient and debt-free by Kirsten Dirksen on April 30, 2011 When Myrna and Earl Fincher married 53 years ago they started farming their yard “out of necessity”. As Earl remembers: …
A tour through Thoreau’s simple living at Walden pond by Kirsten Dirksen on June 8, 2009 “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in 1851 at a time when he was …
