Paul Miller

A few weeks ago I visited Biosphere 2. If you haven’t come across the project before, it was built as a test of whether we could recreate the support systems we have on Earth (or Biosphere 1 as the project’s supporters call it). To test this idea they built a $150 million airtight greenhouse in [...]

I’ve just finished reading Katharine Hibbert’s book Free: Adventures on the margins of a wasteful society and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a great piece of journalism, along the lines of Nickel and Dimed, where Katharine lives the life herself to get a level of depth and detail that wouldn’t be possible otherwise. The premise behind the [...]

Hanging out at Green Thing HQ with Katee earlier this week reminded me that I’ve been thinking for a while about the items I own that have lasted longer than I thought they would. Buying new stuff – and manufacturers designing in obsolescence – has to be one of the most damaging aspects of the [...]