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He built his off-grid straw bale home for just $15,000, including solar panels and batteries, and 20 years later he’s still refining the system.

Dan Durica has lived at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Missouri for two decades, in a home he built himself out of local straw bale and earth.

Today his monthly costs are almost nothing: about $50/month to lea...


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As we accumulate things, analog and digital, it gets easier to lose the battle against entropy. Some things survive anyway, but rarely the ones we planned for.

When we recently met Ford Roosevelt, grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt and executive leader in charge of preserving


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The USS Potomac was FDR’s “Floating White House” — the boat where he ran the country, secretly slipped away in the fog to meet Winston Churchill mid-ocean, and could move freely without the world seeing that he couldn’t walk.

But after his death in 1945, it fell into decades of n...


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Why do people keep writing, singing, and building for audiences the market can’t see? The answer to this question is what makes some people irreplaceable.

I just overheard a conversation between two strangers that belongs to our cultural moment: they were two grown male teenagers, and one asked the other whether he had read a book I didn’t recognize.

A sp...

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For the past 20 years, Josh and Chiara Morris have built a 360-acre homestead in the Missouri Ozarks that today provides their family with all its own food, water, shelter, and energy, and even its income. It’s a fully engineered system for self-reliance, first inspired by Josh’s years as an Army Ranger.

Deployed overseas, Josh saw firsthand what happens when ...


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