This is my favourite home design so far. (Video below) Every home and building should be passive solar, and every home or building should be an Earth Home – meaning, it uses heating and cooling from the sun and the earth. Anything less is radically substandard, and in light
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Things Are Good: Minimalism
Minimalism is good.
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Rob Maguire: Touring Turkey with 18 litres of luxury
I’m sitting in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, waiting for my connecting flight to Istanbul with my carry-on bag resting on my lap. When I arrive at the Ataturk airport later today, I’ll pass through customs, stroll past the baggage area, and jump onto the metro. That carry-on bag — the Boreas
Continue readingThings Are Good: Only Keep Things That Bring You Joy
Are you sick of tidying your place all the time? If you are, just stop. There’s no need to tidy if you go through all your items and only keep things which bring you joy and improve your life. Marie Kondo has published a book on the Japanese art of
Continue readingMelissa Fong: On becoming LESS high-maintenance…
Friends… and readers, Let’s have a moment on minimalism. And getting older. I’m not sure what the deal is with people accumulating more stuff as they get older as if it is the “adult” thing to do. I mean, I’m positive it distils down to some capitalist ideology, but I want
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Open letter to Canada Goose Haters
Open letter to Canada Goose Haters (Inspired from more than one instance- but you know who you are if you did make a comment and you are welcome to confront me about it- but it’s not JUST you- so don’t think you’re special in that way). Judgment. I am the
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Minimalist Generational Movement
Consumerism takes a huge toll on our planet and out pocketbooks and one generation raised in a consumerist culture has opted out. Many in the generation following Gen-X have realized that doing activities is more fun than owning plates (or whatever people buy, I have no idea) and have decided
Continue readingLeft Over: The Home Ahead….
I have long been attracted to the small house movement…it seems so perfectly revisionist, as in re-envisioning the necessary and the portable..to devolve from what we are programmed to think we need. I really feel as if this is my distant or perhaps not-too distant future..finding a bit of land
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