Urban
Strategies for resourceful living
Tiny Homes – the Big Picture
OFf-Grid News reports on the booming Tiny Homes movement. The houses are the size of a regular settee or a little bigger. They are painted in happy colours — ye...
Shop the bunker
The Spectator newspaper reports that an architect who usually designs Manhattan skyscrapers was recently asked to pitch for a far more interesting project. The ...
Another cool tiny home
If This House Doesn’t Look Like Much To You, Wait Til You Go Inside. I Love Everything About This. After spending years in the rat race, with their lives revolv...
Inequality is why so many want out of the system
The war on drugs sends thousands of poor kids to prison for using the same illegal substances that rich whites can often get away with; meanwhile, Wall Street b...
App uses social media data to make avoiding people easier
A new iPhone app allows users to harness the power of social media to become as anti-social as possible. Cloak lets users view a map with location data taken fr...
“$1m” Tree House under threat
A family in Wenatchee, WA have been told they can only keep their tree house if they takes out a $1M insurance policy in case it falls down Zeb Postelwait built...
Not prepped at all….
During this last major cold snap, I heard a story on NPR (National Public Radio), it’s the only radio station we can pick up out here, it’s quite a ...
Living inside the box
This absolutely falls under the “How cool is that!” category… I have seen lots of sheds, workshops and homes made out of shipping containers, ...
Private Underground Shelters
Disaster preparedness is big business in the USA. The big banks all have shadow rooms, vast cavernous buildings on the edge of New York and Chicago where the en...
Taking an urban apartment off the grid
London, Ont., Roommates Stephen Szucs and Dave Pope are living with no fridge, air conditioner, stove or hot, or running water this summer after deciding to dis...
Doomsday Prepper arrested with live alligator
A “doomsday prepper” who was arrested Tuesday after Dallas police found bomb making materials and a Glock in his car has been kept in federal custod...
Slums – testbeds for new ways of living
We should not romanticise slums, but informal settlements can teach us a lot about society and the economy of resources. Its amazing , for example, how most of ...