Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
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The HemLoft >>> A Secret Treehouse Hiding In The Woods Of Whistler
Canada.com features a secret treehouse in the woods of Whistler is exposed by it’s owner for the first time to the awe of architects and nature lovers alike >>> Joel Allen is getting a lot of attention for his grown-up treehouse nestled in the branches atop Whistler Mountain in B.C. Allen, a 31-year-old unemployed software developer, started building the egg-shaped structure, dubbed the HemLoft, in 2008. He wrote on his website: The driving force behind the whole thing was a ...
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Offshore Psychedelic Healing >>> Proposal for Entheogenic Seastead Resort and Testing Lab
Was the appearance of the white killer whale a sign of humanities need to shift to the oceans? After finding out about seasteading, I found this article on The Institue For Ethics & Emerging Technologies website from Ben Goertzel on his proposal to take shamanic healing to the sea. It is certainly a grandiose idea that would take years if not decades to turn into reality, but one I think, and the white whale may be signifying, is a must needed direction humanity should ...
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Self Powered Wind Turbine Makes 1,000 Liters of Clean Water a Day in the Desert
Treehugger features a new technology being tested in water systems that could quite simply shatter barriers to accessing water. Think of the possibilites. Not only will off-grid back-to-the-landers have a more streamlined alternative to the common rainwater harvesting system, but more importantly, developing nations often faced with drought and no solid infrastructure to support it could easily provide clean drinking water in the middle of the most dryest regions. Mother nature would be pretty happy too knowing her remaining fresh ...
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Snoop Dogg’s ‘Rolling Words’ >>> Smokable Songbook of His Greatest Hits
Saundra Jones Combining a smattering of eco-friendliness and the two things Snoop Dogg does best, smokin’ weed and makin’ music, is his new venture, a book of lyrics from classic Snoop songs called Rolling Words: A Smokable Songbook. Just as the name suggests, within this hemp covered stoner treat are pages made of rolling papers that after be rolled can be struck up with a match lit off the spine of the book. A brilliant marketing ploy to promote his new ...
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Live In An Authentic Native American Teepee by Little Joe
Little Joe’s earth lodges are the are real deal. From the Pocomoke Indian People, the knowledge of creating high quality native american teepees is not being passed on to anyone with atleast $470 which can buy you a complete teepee package that comes with a five year warranty, surviving in the cold climates of Northern Canada. These beautiful specimens can be used to live in (one customer hooked up theirs with solar panels), for Powwows, or just a kids play house. Another ...
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Folding Electric Bike Offers a Path to Conscious Commuting
Is $2500 worth it to take your feet off your bicycles pedals and then fold it up and tuck it away when you arrive at your destination? If it means the congested city highways and roads will free up and our reliance on oil will diminish, then I say it’s definitely worth it. Especially when it is a bicycle that looks as good as the new folding electric bike by Conscious Commuter recently featured in an article from GOOD Magazine: >>> ...
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EcoPERCH Retreat >>> The Rolls Royce Of Treehouses
Treehouse architecture has come a long way and seems to be ever evolving into new shapes, styles, and sizes. Although I prefer a more rustic, might-find-a-goblin living-inside-it style, this super modern design, EcoPERCH, from Blue Forest is still a wonderful alternative to the stock suburban home. Here is the full story on the capsule-shaped concept from Mother Nature Network: Luxury treehouse outfitter Blue Forest unveils EcoPERCH, a curvy and wood-clad prefab retreat that doesn’t necessarily need to be elevated high above the forest ...
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Free New Quarterly Publication ‘Earth’ >>> The Neo-Hippies Dream Magazine Covering Consciousness, Cosmos, Teepees, Wilderness and More
Introducing the earth’s newest quarterly publication Earth, with articles like ‘Becoming Conscious’, ‘Art Is Magic’, ‘The Wilderness’, ‘You Are The Cosmos’, ‘Back To The Land’, and the holy grail of hippiedom, an instructional piece on building teepees, one could say this is the ultimate magazine for modern hippies…aka mippies. Only a true mippie publication would be free, which is exactly what Earth is being available to order or download for free from their site. However, the pages of Earth deter ...
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Live Like a Hobbit for $5000
Cash, that most basic element of our economy, can be in abysmally short supply for new young families scraping by on marginal jobs. Sustainable housebuilding may not be foremost in their minds. But one young couple in Wales managing on an annual income of just $10,000 went ahead and built their own cheap home anyway, sustainably, mostly out of materials from “a rubbish pile somewhere.” They had wanted to spend as much time as possible at home while their two ...
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Beyond the Infinity >>> Mind-boggling Labyrinth Design by Serge Salat
“‘Beyond infinity’, a multisensory installation by french artist and theorist serge salat, interweaves mirrors, light, music, and fractal art in an architecture that conflates visitors’ perceptions of space. Sponsored by buick cars and usable during the events as a vehicle showroom, the work is installed at shanghai’s westgate mall from september 16th through 18th, 2011. Measuring 12.45 by 10.8 meters at a height of 3.8 meters, the structure is completely closed, composed of a steel infrastructure with honeycomb aluminum panels ...
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El Cosmico Resort >>> Luxury Hippie Livin’
Satisfying all my neo-hippie fantasies of living in a trailer, a teepee, or a yurt, a new concept in luxury hotels, El Cosmico, makes this all possible. Accompanied with their Mañana philosophy that “doesn’t care about email or normal hours of operation [recognizing] that we can’t all have everything we want at any given moment, I’ve practically stretched my thumb out over the road with one arm while I write this post with the other to make the trip down ...
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Strandbeest >>> A Skeletal Beach Beast That Walks On The Wind
Introducing Strandbeest or Animaris Gubernare, a ‘new nature’ of beach animals designed by physicist, artist, writer, professor, and designer Theo Jansen. “Since 1990 I have been occupied creating new forms of life. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don’t have to eat. Over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such ...