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It’s Earth Day Damnit
Happy Earth Day! It’s that day of the year we appreciate the extraordinary set of circumstances that conspired to make our planet suitable for habitation (or something like that). It’s really quite...
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Forget Dumpster Diving. Try Dumpster Living.
“What’s the smallest space you can happily and healthily live in using the fewest resources?”–it’s a question that Professor Jeff Wilson is trying to answer. In his quest for that answer, he’s going...
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These Machines Might Solve Energy Crisis and Obesity Epidemic
As we’ve looked at here in the past, one of the chief ways of staying trim and live longer is to avoid sedentary behavior and remain active. And as we should all know by now, we are burning through our...
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This Tiny, Passive House Ain’t No Wimp
Don’t be fooled by its peace-loving name, few things will defend you from the elements like a Passive House. If you’re not familiar with the term, Passive House (aka Passivhaus) is a German-born set of...
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Buy Less Stuff, Downsize for Yourself, for the Earth
The People’s Climate March is happening this Sunday, September 21 in New York City. It is expected to be the largest march calling for action to stop the manmade causes of climate change, which if you...
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The Slow Death of the Walkable City
As a bit of an urban planning enthusiast, I’ve often wondered how cities that predate widespread car-ownership can be so car-dependent nowadays. For example, I am from Chicago, a city that was booming...
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Low Impact Living and Dancing Rabbits
What would a truly “edited” and sustainable type of community look like (that isn’t a bunkhouse or prison cell or isn’t the Kowloon walled city)? You’d imagine people would live in small dwellings...
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Adventures in Extreme Minimalism
A couple weeks ago, we revisited Peter Lawrence, a man who lives with what would charitably be called a paucity of possessions. In certain ways, Rob Greenfield makes Lawrence look like a hoarder....
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Keeping Up with the New, Improved Joneses
Many, if not most, of our habits are influenced–if not outright dictated–by a desire to keep up with our peers. We choose the homes we do, we consume the stuff we do, we have the careers we do and make...
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The House Behind House
We love ADUs. They have the power to do the near-impossible: pack more housing into suburban and other low-density areas that were not designed to be dense. And given that they’re typically wedged into...
View ArticleIs Online Shopping Bad for the Planet?
For those who, like this author, loathe shopping, Amazon Prime is a major life-editor. It allows us to get the majority of non-perishable items sent to our houses in a day or two (and yes, Amazon Fresh...
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This Truck Is Cruising the Country Honoring the Stuff We Got
There was a time in the not so distant past when people held on to and cared for their stuff. They fixed toasters, darned socks, patched holes and did a variety of things that didn’t involve...
View ArticleOh Crap, It’s Earth Day
Ask any non-quack climatologist what’s happening with the planet and he or she will say more or less the same thing: it is experiencing climatic shifts that will likely rain down a shit-storm of nasty...
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What is the Future of Home?
We–well Graham, our founder–often gets asked to present on the subject of LifeEdited, doing more with less and the like. And we–well I, David your trusty blogger–am often charged with researching and...
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What’s Right With This Picture?
From above, this picture shows a fairly normal suburban neighborhood. There are large, single family homes, each with their own driveways, front and back yards. But if you look closely, right between N...
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If You’re Going to Covet, Covet This
The term “keeping up with the Joneses” is rarely framed in a positive manner. It refers to a nasty form of one upmanship, where someone is always trying to have the bigger car, bigger house, newer...
View ArticleIntroducing LifeEdited: Maui
It’s been almost four years since we revealed the first LifeEdited Apartment (LE1) in New York City. It was both design laboratory and CEO Graham Hill’s personal apartment. But as some might know,...
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We Wish All Suburban Developments Looked Like This
We’ve long extolled the virtues of high density, urban living. By keeping things close, you can walk or bike most places, which is better for both physical and planetary health. Density leads to more...
View ArticleCan Sustainable Sushi Become the New Wave in Seafood
In NYC’s East Village, a couple of restaurateurs are going for a new dining concept that is seeking to change how we look at seafood. Sushi restaurant, Mayanoki, headed by TJ Provenzano and David...
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The House Behind House
We love ADUs. They have the power to do the near-impossible: pack more housing into suburban and other low-density areas that were not designed to be dense. And given that they’re typically wedged into...
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