Sustainability Blog

Not all Small and Tiny homes are sustainable; they actually range in a broad spectrum from achieving high sustainability to not being sust...

I was very depleted after five years of so much effort to manifest the Home of the Future. I took a break. Last week I decided to come off b...

In typical Bob fashion, I am casting a possible negative as a positive. My housemates are moving out. What I imagine happened is that a form...

When we moved in three years ago, Mariposa Grove members danced with joy: "Take down your fence! Become part of our community!" ...

Many people are aware these days of how far their food travels, becoming less fresh and using up petroleum to get to their table. The Suncur...

We were hanging out in Karl and Nini's kitchen. I excused myself to use the restroom. This is the water closet that I did all that exten...

We've worked out why Karl and Nini's bedroom floods. We can chalk it up to the previous owners, again, just like all the other inan...

Or, rather, two contractors and a plumber told me that in order to "repair" the downstairs toilet, I'd have to hire them to te...

In permaculture, Zones are numbered from 0 to 5, and can be thought of as a series of concentric rings moving out from a center point, where...