These Bonsai forests are among the most popular bonsai styles and require great discipline and skill to create.
What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?
Our Changing Climate
Why we need solarpunk, ecosocialist, and degrowth-oriented cities, specifically, what those future cities might look like, and the failures of capitalist cities today.
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Disabled Senior’s Tiny House In A Tiny Home Village
Corinne, a retired lawyer, lives in a Tiny Home specifically designed for her disabilities. She has been living in the Park Delta Bay Tiny House Community in California since 2017. This is her home and her story.
NorCal’s First Legal Tiny House Village
Park Delta Bay is an RV and Tiny House resort in the California’s San Joaquin River Delta, one hour from the Bay Area or Sacramento. PDB has long- and short-term spaces for RVs, trailers, and THOW (Tiny Homes On Wheels) and features central amenities and a nearby town.
Note: To park your tiny house here, it must be built according to RV certifications, and registered as a Recreational Vehicle.
Quantum Dots • More Efficient Solar Panels
Ever heard of a quantum dot? What about an artificial atom? Nano Technology that has the potential to revolutionize fields like medicine, consumer electronics, and especially solar energy. #Science #Physics #MaterialScience #Engineering #Solar
The District: A 6-Foot-Wide Alleyway Home
When Nady Samnang bought a former parking spot in downtown Washington DC, he was approved to build to the lot lines for a 15-foot-wide home, but then zoning changed, and he with his brother had to comply with alleyway setbacks meaning his home could only be 6 feet wide.
Witchcraft Under Capitalism
🏡 Cottagecore, Witchcore, and the Classism of Ethical Consumerism
Hibiscus: THe Red Drink @ African American Garden
A healthy, refreshing spiced herbal tea drink known by many names throughout different countries and cultures.
Throughout West Africa it is known as the “National Drink of Senegal”, in Ghana, “Sobolo”, in Nigeria, “Zobo” and Jus De Bissap. Throughout Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa it is known as Karkadé (Arabic: كَركَديه Karkadīh). Agua de Flor de Jamaica, Agua Fresca de Jamaica, Rosa de Jamaica, is popular across the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, parts of South America and Sorrel or “Red Drink” throughout the US and Canadian African Diaspora.
NatureHouse • Home In A Greenhouse • Guemes Island, Washington
A first-person account of the process from design, through construction, and then the day-to-day life inside the greenhouse. House: Interior 400 sq ft, Greenhouse: 35′ by 60′, 2,100 sq ft. This is a review of the highs, lows, and surprises after living inside the greenhouse the first year.
For more detail on the project that are unique to a house inside a greenhouse, point your web browser to: https://liveinagreenhouse.com
NatureHouse • Home In A Greenhouse • Stockholm, Sweden
The average temperature in Stockholm in January is -3°C (27°F). For Marie Granmar and Charles Sacilotto it can be much warmer thanks to the greenhouse that blankets their home. “For example at the end of January it can be -2°C outside and it can be 15 to 20°C upstairs,” explains Sacilotto. He was inspired to build a house-in-a-greenhouse through his relationship with architect Bengt Warne who began designing the first Naturhus (Nature House) in 1974*.