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Textile artists: the pioneers of a new material world Textile artists: the pioneers of a new material world These contemporary textile artists are weaving together the common threads and rich variety of fibre art in new ways Anna Ray,  Weave. Courtesy of House On Mars Gallery. Photography: Anna Ray Textile art has long been a vehicle for storytelling. Much like ceramic art, it has long trodden the foggy and hotly-contested line between art and craft. It comes dressed in many forms: fibre...

The VERY unusual new homes of city slickers who now live off the grid After a turbulent year, many Americans are dreaming of giving up the grind of modern life to live off the grid. Photographer and filmmaker Foster Huntington has done exactly that, quitting his job in New York City and moving to a multi-level tree house in rural Washington state. The 32-year-old helped design and build the incredible structure - known as the Cinder Cone - which is featured in his new book, Off Grid: Your Ideal...

autoevolution Darc Mono Carbon Expedition Vehicle Is Your $295K Ticket to Escape Civilization 16 Mar 2021, 9:09 UTC · by Here’s the truth. Technology has changed, and so have building techniques and materials. In turn, that leads to countless ideas, some of which have spewed into the expedition vehicle lifestyle, finally giving birth to the behemoth you see here, the Darc Mono. You’ll understand the name shortly. To make things nice and simple, the Mono is a custom-built expedition ...

Combining a life of extreme sustainability and creativity provides plenty of musical fodder for Abe Rosenberg and Morgan Velasquez, who make up the San Luis Valley-based duo Sweet Radish. Some might find their off-the-grid, self-reliant animal sanctuary, music studio and home enviable; others might regard it as just plain strange. But for the couple, it works. Rosenberg and Velasquez grew up in musical families, playing multiple instruments. They met around ten years ago at the urging of a frie...

autoevolution Rugged Topo Teardrop Camper Could Be the Last Trailer You Ever Buy 14 Mar 2021, 13:10 UTC · by With nearly a year of travel restrictions, everyone is just itching to go, doesn’t even matter where. To help you do that, companies like Escapod Trailers are hard at work designing and building mobile homes like the one you see here. This piece of ingenuity is known as the Topo Series teardrop trailer, and quite frankly, it could be the last trailer you ever buy. Escapod was bo...

Embodying self-sufficiency, this container house requires no external sources of energy or water. Learn more about it here.

The Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEP) will benefit from an additional $22.5 million (CFA12.3 billion). The facility was

At a time when indoor leisure activities such as shopping and dining out are restricted, its more important than ever to make the most of the great outdoors. Hiking and camping are not only great fun but they offer a safe way to escape from the stresses of daily life because you dont encounter many other people on the back roads of the countryside. To make packing for your next trip easier, the leading subscription box company Bespoke Post have tried, tested and selected the best outdoor surviv...

https://www.afinalwarning.com/498813.html (Natural News) Clean water is a scarce resource in dry, off-grid environments. In these areas, conventional water sources such as snowfall, rainfall, river runoff and groundwater are rare if not completely absent. But innovative water sourcing methods could help address that scarcity. In an article for  Conversation, environmental scientists Manzoor Qadir and Vladimir Smakhtin, both from United Nations University in Japan, detailed five water harv...

Microgrids could become new energy solution for towns like Tarnagulla and Donald FriFriday 5 Microgrids powered by diesel generators have been used in remote communities since the 1980s. ( Share Print text only Cancel Regional towns once ran on their own power transfer stations, and it could be a case of history repeating if a new three-year study finds microgrids a viable option for resilient energy supply. Key points: People in Tarnagulla and Donald are already looking into resilient supplies...