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z | Without education and with little-to-no social safety net to fall back on, a person will view circumstances of lack in a very different way than one who has educational and marketplace advantages—not to mention the advantage of ethnic privilege, another issue often ignored within the VS movement. This difference in per... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
z | The evolution in cob will be toward the pursuit of making cob available to as many people as are interested in and in need of cheap, sustainable, and personally fulfilling housing alternatives. In an era when people are more and more disempowered to act with agency in designing their lives, designing and building with... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
z | One may embrace radical simplicity, extreme simplicity, and fearless simplicity.
One final nod to buying big in order to live small, is the “Tumbleweed Tiny House,” the brainchild of architect and designer Jay Shafer. Each exquisite little dwelling is like a playhouse for grownups; they have eco-groovy names like the ... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
z | Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin became VS gurus with their seminal work, Your Money or Your Life. Many VSers refer to this state of being stuck on the consumer hamster wheel as “wage slavery.” This is not just radical rhetoric of East or West Coast liberals.
There is a certain level of discomfort among VSers with this... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Teenagers are dying behind the wheel. Several factors come together to create this deadly vector of statistics for the youngest American drivers. The National Institutes of Health explain that one facet of the problem is that the teen brain is literally not ready for the hazards of driving. Simple inexperience also ... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
z | Cob, in this case, has nothing to do with the skeleton of an ear of corn. Cob is an old English term for mud buildings constructed without standard structural underpinning (Elizabeth 25). Cob is also the name of the loaves of mud used during construction.
The basic composition of cob is clay, sand, straw, and water. C... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Americans have long been enamored with the image of the simple self-sufficient aesthete, whether it is Thoreau growing beans on the back forty in Concord or Jeremiah Johnson going into the Rocky Mountains to wrestle grizzly bears. In recent years, PBS has created several versions of a reality-style television miniser... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
z | All materials are completely non-toxic, sound for the environment, and harmless to cob builders and cob dwellers.
The first permanent human settlements were constructed of unbaked earth, some 10,000 years ago. Earth construction is ubiquitous around the globe. At some point during the Middle Ages, the first cob hous... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
z | In spite of all the reduction-morality justifications this young man finds for making his purchase, he also mentions that the shaving brush “looks retro.” Simplicity aesthetics has its own appeal; it looks simple, and the buyer is able to flesh out the virtues of his choice accordingly. By making this purchase, Rob acq... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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Ranging from 40-100 square feet, these exquisitely designed domiciles are built directly onto a trailer base, so are completely portable. One can either purchase plans for about $1,000, or order the house custom built and shipped. The cost to build your own (not including the cost of plans or labor) is $9,000 to $19,0... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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After attending a cob-building workshop in Oregon, Dana Jenks came home to Sacramento with a vision for building something of her own. She was going through a particularly stressful time in her personal life, and she found that the solitary, hands-on nature of cob building to be healing. One aspect of cob design that... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
z | Perhaps this will always be the simple certainty of our lives on earth.
It is deeply ingrained in audiences of comedy, up to and including the present day, to watch for a satisfying moment of ‘happily ever after’ in literature, theater, film, and fairy tales. Thus, one classic and expected element of a Shakespearea... | 54 | English | female | Master's degree | Writer | Y,Y,Y,Y,Y |
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