Tag: Living With Less - Page 6
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How Car Sharing is Taking Over Berlin
Robert Llewellyn explores Berlin's high tech systems for car sharing in an urban environment. He thinks he may have seen the future of mobility.
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Mobile Game Encourages Real-World Sharing
The sharing economy is built on reputation. So is online social gaming. Now the two are coming together.
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Bloomberg Does Not Announce Design Competition for Tiny Apartments. It's a "Request for Proposals".
If only it really was a design competition. It's not. Why not drop the RFP crap and do the real thing?
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"Miner's Shelter" At Taliesin West Is a Tiny Gem
A tiny retreat in the Arizona desert by a Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Student
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Hacker Hostels: Incubators With Ikea Bunkbeds
Housing is expensive in Silicon Valley; these high-tech B&Bs are a place to start
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Tiny Off-Grid Float Cabin Becomes Dream Retirement Home
For one couple, retirement means living way off-the-grid in a water-access-only floating cabin in the wilds of British Columbia.
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Small is Sexy: Lessons from European Cities
Australian architect on what he learned while travelling in Europe.
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Simple Sliding Doors Create a Transformer Apartment
Inspired by Japanese homes, this apartment uses very basic sliding doors to create multiple configurations.
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Buy Your Own (Official) Hobbit Hole
A small family business is selling replicas/interpretations of the homes made famous by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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A Place For Everything In The Tiny Shrine By Sigurd Larsen
It's like a little house for all your little stuff. It even has a secret room.
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We Love Tiny Houses and Apartments, But 16 Square Feet Is Just Too Small.
It is both a parody of the real estate business and a shocking exposé of Hong Kong Housing
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Naked Value. 6 Things Every Business Leader Needs to Know About Resources, Innovation & Competition (Book Review)
A must-read book for business leaders. Naked value is the ultimate value a product delivers to customers, or the benefits that remain when a product is stripped of most of the energy and material resources required to manufacture and deliver it.
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Clever Desk Design Assembles In Seconds, is Held Together With Ratchet Straps
For people in a hurry and on a budget, ratchet straps are all the rage.
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Tiny, Rundown Attic Space Becomes Stunning Rooftop Apartment
This Barcelona apartment shows that a little vision can create luxury in the unlikeliest of spaces.
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Top Airline Executive Creates Tiny, "Treehouse" Home
A leading airline executive builds a tiny, rustic retreat with no electricity or running water.
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Seventies Back-to-the-Land Pioneer Explores the Tiny House Movement
A former shelter editor for the Whole Earth Catalog discusses the new wave of the tiny house movement.
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The Tiny House Movement Gets Its Own Documentary
A chance encounter with the Tiny House movement led one film maker to spend years in this "alternate universe". Now, she is telling her story.
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Hot or Not: Lamps Made Of OSB (Survey)
We love designs that use simple, basic materials. But can you be too simple and basic?
