Tag: Living With Less - Page 11
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Since When Did A 4,000 Square Foot House Get Considered Small?
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Motivation is Not Enough. You Need a System to Go Green.
I've written before that environmentalists need strategy, not just goals and principles, if we're going to meet the enormous challenges we face.
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Simpler Living May Make Us Happier, But Happiness is Not Enough
This might be the best thing I have read in a long, long time. Pat Kane over at The Guardian has been thinking a lot about the connection between consumerism, sustainability, happiness
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What's the Environmental Impact of Stress?
In the quest for sustainability, it's easy to focus on products and behaviors. But sometimes it's the more intangible elements in our lives that have the biggest impact. From the
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Why Being Lazy is Green, and Frugal Too
I've written before about the environmental benefits of saving money, and my recent manifesto for the lazy gardener questioned the value of a work ethic in the garden. Now Sierra
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Cube Project Is A 97 Square Foot Psychology Experiment
Image Credit Nick Edwards Jetson Green shows us the Cube Project, where Dr Mike Page of the University of Hertfordshire designed and built " a compact home, no bigger than 3x3x3 metres on the inside, in which one person could live a comfortable, modern
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Building with Mud in Rainy Wales is Hard, But Possible (Video)
The crunchier end of hippy eco-living might not be to everyone's tastes, but from low impact living in a communal woodland to Appalachian gothic architecture using recycled pallet-wood, those willing to live a simpler
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Food Swaps, Garden Workshops and GOOD's Good Deed Ops
Baker Ben traded his olive-red pepper bread for Lizanne's lemongrass-mint syrup who exchanged her nasturtium-carrot top pesto for freshly picked rosemary. The next
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Tiny Houses Are Cool. What About a Tiny House Conference?
From the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company to the miniscule Chinese green egg house, TreeHugger has often enthused that very small houses could be the next big thing. At least that's
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Living Room Furniture Set, Made of Bulletproof Fiber, Weighs Just 16.5 Pounds
If your living room went on a crash diet, it'd look 'round about like what you see here. The Light-room, by the staggeringly talented Dutch designer Studio Bram
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Shelf System Built From Boxes Makes Moving Easy
When I wrote about Daniel Gaffner's System 1530 last fall I was intrigued by the design, noting that "when looked at in the framework of a more mobile flexible lifestyle, they become more interesting; the bookshelves can actually
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E.D.G.E.: An Experimental Dwelling for a Greener Environment
Architect William Yudchitz of Revelations Architects/Building Corporation designed EDGE to be an "experimental minimalist structure aims to meet basic human needs while still providing a qualitatively rich life".
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Closet House: Big Moving Closet Wall Changes Spaces
It's not exactly Gary Chang's domestic transformer four minutes of wow, but this Portuguese apartment has a giant moving closet that separates the living area from the sleeping, and much like the winner in the LifeEdited
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Carry Your House On Your Back With the JakPak
I thought Wired Magazine was cruel, when they called the JAKPAK an epic gadget FAIL. So did Michelle at JAKPAK, who wrote "Pretty excited to see you guys stand up to the Wired article regarding the Jakpak. It is a great product."
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Love the Treading Lightly, Portability And Size, But Is The Bubbletree Green?
I recently wrote Love the Green Roof. But Is It An Example of Green Design? including a section on why so many small spaces get on TreeHugger, writing that "One can certainly make the case that they tread lightly, and provide
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The McMansion Era Is Not Over Yet
Lloyd asked the other day whether we should show more big green houses on TreeHugger. After all, while we may like to talk about living simply as an alternative American Dream and tiny
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George Bernard Shaw's Early Passivhaus
TreeHugger has shown George Bernard Shaw's wonderful rotating writing hut before, and a number of rotating houses that follow the sun. But Greg Denisiuk of An Honest Architecture (via shedworking) makes a very interesting point; perhaps designers
