Tiny home in Hawaii

I think we can all appreciate Johnny Sanphillippo’s situation, he worked hard at a job he loved that unfortunately didn’t net him a large salary,

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It’s garden time!

I grew up watching gardening shows on PBS, one of my favorites was the Victory Garden, and during pledge week, they would always have Howard

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Pioneer couple

I grew up watching Texas Country Reporter, back in the day it was called 4 Country Reporter, that’s when there were only a few TV

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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, some

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A tiny house for Macy

This Is What Happens When A Woman Gets Sick Of Divorce And Mortgages. And It’s Brilliant. Macy Miller is an architect from Idaho that had

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Jesse Ventura Daily Mouth-off

Jesse Ventura is launching a daily talkshow on Internet-video.The libertarian rant, to debut next month, will focus, Ventura told Variety, on the hypocrisy of America’s

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Thoreau home solar panels

Solar Walden

(PRWEB) November 05, 2013 – Henry David Thoreau, illustrious American writer, philosopher, and naturalist, is going off the grid once again, 168 years after his

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Bye-bye Lulu

Lou Reed was known as Lulu to his friends. It was his gay name, given to him by Andy Warhol. He went off the grid

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Marjory Wildcraft

  I just listened to a Coast to Coast am show featuring Marjory Wildcraft as a guest, I have heard her name before and probably

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Tiny homes, cheap!

I am starting to see more and more of these shed style homes, they remind me of Morgan buildings. They are a glorified shed that

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Another Post-SHTF Worry

From regular contributor Corey Naughton This article will start with a story. I had a little incident this weekend that brought about this realization and

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Paolo Soleri

(ANSA) – Rome, April 10 – Renowned Italian architect and visionary Paolo Soleri has died at 93 at his home in Arizona. Born in Turin

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DIY inspirations

Ever wonder what websites I enjoy visiting (besides this one of course!)? There are quite a few, but I have to tell you about a

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Off-Grid Governor

MARYSVILLE, Mont. (AP) – Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer is proud of his off-the-grid getaway. A day spent with Schweitzer riding four-wheelers and talking politics makes

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World’s Top Eco-Cop

David Higgins works for Interpol. He wants the world to wake up to eco-crime, and take steps to prevent it. Higgins is head of Interpol’s

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Lucas Foglia pics

“By the time I was 18 we owned three tractors, four cars and five computers,”says photographer Lucas Foglia. Growing up on a small farm in

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We were an island

Art and Nan Kellam bought an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine in 1949 and lived there for more than 35 years, content with

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Fred Eaglesmith

Canadian Country singer  Fred Eaglesmith is our kind of environmentalist. “I’m not part of the trend. I’m not part of the Green Revolution,” he tells

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Doomsday Preppers

This TV show first aired in the US last summer and arrives in the UK this wednesday on an obscure cable channel.  It is the

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Chinese greener than US

The common perception of China is a culture so hell-bent on economic growth that it doesn’t have time for the luxury of environmental awareness. That

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Justin’s just lovin’ his greens

‘Sexyback’ singer Justin Timberlake this week re-opened his luxury ‘eco-friendly’ golf course in Memphis Tennessee  after investing millions of dollars on an environmental upgrade. Note

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Wow, what a rain!

Living in the high desert means having to deal with long periods of dry weather punctuated by periods of mega-rains. We got one of those

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Green Tories

With a couple of hundred new members of Parliament in the British House of Commons, the work has started to identify which of them are

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On board the Plastiki

Two of the world’s leading environmental campaigners have passed the halfway point on their voyage across the Pacific in a boat made from plastic bottles.

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Soccer’s swampy bugs out

MANCHESTER United defender Gary Neville is building an earth sheltered eco home that promises to become one of Britain’s leading environmental showcases. 200W Portable Power

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Living for free

27-year-old Katharine Hibbert is a nice middle class girl. She writes book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, and volunteers for the Food not Bombs

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Peak Oil is now says IEA

THE world will have to find four Saudi Arabias by 2030 if it wants to maintain its oil consumption habit, says the International Energy Agency’s chief economist, Dr Fatih Birol.

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