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  • Conway meets the modern way: Woodsman slapped with code violations

    Mon, Mar 18, 2013 4:18 PM by Matt Hickman

    Turtle Island Preserve, the North Carolina educational center operated by self-sufficiency guru Eustace Conway, is shuttered after a surprise visit from code officials.

  • The house bunny: Easter '13 edition

    Mon, Mar 18, 2013 8:30 AM by Matt Hickman

    With everyone's favorite brunch- and bunny-centric religious observance just around the corner, it's time to get decorating with these handmade and eco-friendly Easter/springtime decor picks.

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  • Corned beef, cabbage and an ample side of links [Friday news clump]

    Fri, Mar 15, 2013 2:49 PM by Matt Hickman

    This St. Patrick's Day weekend: Mother Nature strikes again at the Farnsworth House, the case against tree-festooned skyscrapers and a bunch of lovely contemporary homes from the Emerald Isle.

  • Trashswag: A crowdsourced treasure map for urban scavengers

    Fri, Mar 15, 2013 8:00 AM by Matt Hickman

    Gavin Cameron's Toronto-based Trashswag brings the collaboration and convenience of crowdmapping to the curbside freecycling movement.

  • 7 unexpected things that have gone supersized

    Thu, Mar 14, 2013 8:35 AM by Matt Hickman

    There's more to accommodating Americans' expanding waistlines than bigger clothes.

  • The dirtless dozen: 12 springtime tidy-up tools

    Wed, Mar 13, 2013 11:04 PM by Matt Hickman

    Before you throw open the windows and start (begrudgingly) scouring, scrubbing, shampooing and sprucing up, consider adding these eco-friendly tools to your existing arsenal of spring cleaning products.

  • Hold your breath: A look inside Tokyo's coffin-sized 'share houses'

    Mon, Mar 11, 2013 8:30 AM by Matt Hickman

    I'd say move over Hong Kong, but I don’t think there's enough room. In Tokyo's Times Square-esque Shibuya district, a new breed of 'share houses' offer impossibly tiny accommodations for around $500 a month.

  • A razing, a retrofit and a glam remodeling prospect [Friday news clump]

    Fri, Mar 08, 2013 6:12 PM by Matt Hickman

    This week in DST delights: Zsa Zsa Gabor unloads the ultimate Bel Air remodel job, a 'Real Housewife' gets permission to raze a historic Star Island estate and a Westport abode receives a Passivhaus retrofit.

  • From Cree, a budget LED that won't make Edison roll over in his grave

    Wed, Mar 06, 2013 7:00 PM by Matt Hickman

    Longtime LED innovator Cree makes a game-changing jump into consumer lighting with inexpensive 40W and 60W replacement bulbs that resemble the energy-hogging incandescents of yesteryear.

  • In New York, 'organic' dry cleaners harbinger of gentrification

    Tue, Mar 05, 2013 5:04 PM by Matt Hickman

    The latest indication that you may soon be priced out of your New York City neighborhood? The presence of dry cleaners that eschew — or at least claim to eschew — traditional chemical solvents.

  • Renewable rules: Lancaster, Calif., requires all new homes to have solar power

    Tue, Mar 05, 2013 10:00 AM by Matt Hickman

    Led by a solar-loving Republican mayor and blessed with plenty of sunshine, this Mojave Desert city will require all new single-family homes to be equipped with solar starting in 2014.

  • 6 fascinating people who own almost nothing

    Mon, Mar 04, 2013 10:19 AM by yerdle

    These people have rejected the stuff-cluttered life for something more meaningful.

  • Hong Kong group looks under overpasses as container home sites

    Mon, Mar 04, 2013 8:10 AM by Matt Hickman

    Hong Kong activists propose converted shipping containers as a means of affordable housing for young residents in the cramped and overpriced city. The catch? They'd be located beneath highway overpasses.

  • Horseball tweets and needlepoint Purrell sleeves [Friday news clump]

    Fri, Mar 01, 2013 5:04 PM by Matt Hickman

    This week in the news: The finest IKEA horseball tweets, needlepoint cozies for Purrell bottles, a defiantly parking-less apartment complex in Boston and the oddest looking country retreat you ever did see.

  • The 3 most important questions to help you live smaller

    Tue, Feb 26, 2013 6:07 PM by yerdle

    It all begins with a simple question: Do I really need this? Once you start down that road, you'll want to keep going.

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