Tag: Living With Less - Page 12
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Simplify Your Life Without Losing Your Marriage
We TreeHugger's are big fans of living simply and whittling down your material possessions. Yet—like so many green things—while it might be a relatively simple thing to make
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Crowdsourced Design For an Ultra Low-Footprint Apartment: Clever Ideas from the LifeEdited Project (Slideshow)
How can we save money, radically reduce our environmental impact, and have a freer, less complicated life?
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Winners Selected in LifeEdited Competition To Design New York Apartment
Can you crowdsource design? Can you run an international ideas competition online, with over 300 submissions, commenting, inviting change, watching schemes evolve, and then judge it? Evidently yes, because Graham Hill and the LifeEdited team at Jovoto
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Simple Transformer Furniture Design Has No Moving Parts
He has designed this simple object that can
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Floating Kitchen Might Feel At Home In A LifeEdited
Leslie at KBCulture likes the Harmonie from French kitchen manufacturer Arthur Bonnet; so do I. It would do well in a LifeEdited.
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Time To Vote For Your Favourite LifeEdited Project
I have been consistently blown away by the quality of the submissions for the LifeEdited project. It is now the review period where readers can vote for their favourite project. There is so much to chose from, even dpet's homage to Daniel Libeskind
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What Does It Take To Live in 300 Square Feet? It Takes A Town
Ben Brown of PlaceMakers has been talking about living in smaller spaces and cottage neighbourhoods for years, but recently got to practice what he preaches, living for three months in the original 308 square foot Katrina
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Gig is "Four-Track Furniture" For Small Spaces
I am really beginning to look forward to the Interior Design Show in Toronto in two weeks; all kinds of interesting stuff is coming in over the transom. Designer Davide Tonizzo shows his new Gig, transformers that he calls "four-track furniture." He
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LifeEdited: So Many Great Ideas, So Little Time Left
We're crowdsourcing design at the LifeEdited project, a contest to design some or all of Graham Hill's 420 square foot apartment in New York. As the clock runs out, (just a few days left to enter) I have to say that the ideas submitted so far are
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Dining Table With Built In Dishwasher is Convenient, Saves Space
Dishwashers are, I think, the most poorly thought out of appliances. In our house, if we wait for it to be full before we wash, we inevitably run out of spoons and espresso cups. I once had a client put in two of
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"Your Money or Your Life" Author on Finance, Sustainability & Happiness (Video)
From David Korten calling on us to "abolish the Wall Street mafia", via reflecting on an addiction to growth, through to living simply as an alternative American Dream, some of the best contributions from Peak Moment TV
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Beware Excess Capacity - the Guest Bedroom as Enemy of Sustainability
With the holidays over, many of us are returning from visits with family and friends. And while some of us will have crashed on couches, camped on the floor, or taken over our uncle's
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When Low Tech Beats Fancy Innovation - Ensuring Resilience
Some time ago I posted about the apparent dichotomy between eco-modernity and green traditionalism—suggesting that there is a very real danger of letting
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A Holiday Tale to Warm the Heart
Most everyone has heard the phrase "yule log," and many have enjoyed the various versions of a log-shaped cake that grace the celebration of the winter holidays, whether Christmas or the solstice. But in the age of central
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Elegant Bike Storage Shelf From Knife & Saw
Images credit: Knife and Saw Designboom shows this bike shelf from Chris Brigham, a graphic designer gone 3D and now making furniture under the name Knife and Saw. . Living in San Francisco and visiting friends in New York, he "noticed that there is a
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The Perfect Garden Shed For America: Vostok Cabin
I have often mused that the shedworking movement would never really catch on in America because people are so obsessed with security and wouldn't leave all that expensive stuff out in a the garden. Dutch design studio
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How To Make Your Space Feel Larger: Glass Bathrooms
images credit aat+makoto yokomizo architects TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited." You can
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Sustainable Cabin is Homage to Thoreau, Le Corbusier
"What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
