Less Is More (Part 3 of 3)

November, 2011. The Less is More class at Yestermorrow ended with a nearly all-night studio session that left me pretty exhausted. But when the time came to present our final projects, I couldn’t help but be fascinated by the imaginative solutions that my classmates had come up with for their small house projects. My own presentation looked like this: If you zoom into the pictures a little bit,...

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Holy Rollers

In his essay on peak oil, Future Scenarios, David Holmgren describes the American highway as, “the classic symbol of automobile dependence in the USA where personal mobility in private automotives consumes about 60% of total oil production and imports.” Knowing this, I realize that my plan to do a “green” renovation of a trailer must take into account the fact that it’s typically pulled by a vehicle that...

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Less is More (…a Present Day Report on Modest Living)

As you can imagine, quite a bit has happened since I took the Less is More class last November (including purchasing the Airstream! …which I’ll tell you all about later). But over the past couple of months worth of weekends, I’m finding it’s been tough to gain traction on the Airstream project in a hands-on kind of way. This is mainly because, in my personal life, I’m in...

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