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Living Without Electricity in Normandy
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Jean-Baptiste Barache's home in a small Normandy town two hours northwest of Paris was an architecture experiment "seeking to integrate us with, not isolate us from, the elements," and the house app...

Gift Black List: What We Won't Give This Holiday Season
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We know it's not even Thanksgiving yet, but some of you may already be getting a jump on holiday shopping. So sorry to go all Bah! Humbug! on everyone, but we thought this was a very appropriate topic...

Life in 140 Square Feet
Natural Home

Gregory Paul Johnson lives in a tiny, off-the-grid house. But, instead of telling us about the environmental benefits (and there are plenty), he's focused on how moving into a 140-sq-foot house has ...

Living Without a Fridge: Could You Do It?
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Can you live without a fridge? Some people do. The New York Times wrote an article about a number of people who are choosing to ditch their energy consumption —even Energy Star consumption&md...

Futuristic Eco-Friendly Treehouses

Remember that computer game Myst? It took up countless hours of our junior high lives... And when we spotted this image of sustainable tree houses from Benoit Fray and Dans Mon Arbre, we were immediat...

Green Yourself: 7 Ways To ReThink Your Grooming Habits

In our dream life, we're the kind of person who can be showered, dressed and ready in 15 minutes. Our lifelong enslavement to the blow dryer prevented that dream from coming true. Recently, however...

Do You Really Need That?

The Pew Research Center recently released findings about people's change in belief between 2006 and 2009 about which household objects they really NEED. For example, in 2006 68% of respondents said...