Images unless noted: Findhorn Foundation

While following the development of small green prefabs, It has become increasingly clear that you cannot separate the home from the context, and that what we really need is a sort of green trailer park, where people can own their unit but share common resources. It turns out that it exists, and has since 1962; Dr.

Image by Erin Hanson

Erin Hanson's outlet is the Recovering Lazyholic, and she has some great ways of pinpointing the unfortunate condition of so many of us folks, who give in to our slovenly side a little too often.

Kids get to have all the fun.

Benjamin Benschneider / The Seattle Times

Rebecca Teagarden of the Seattle Times visits Steve Sauer's 182 square foot basement apartment. The 6'-2" tall engineer designs airplane interiors for Boeing, but notes a different inspiration:

"The greatest innovation anywhere for space is boats.

Taking minimalism to the limit, designer Burkhard Schäller has reduced the kitchen to bent wire with a place for everything. And if somebody gives you a weenie roaster you can give it right back, because if it isn't in the design there is nowhere to put it.

Long Studio. All images by Saunders Architecture

We have been watching the career of Todd Saunders with interest; two years ago we called the Canadian expat living in Norway the Best of Green Young Architect.

BBC

Chris Yurista lives out of his backpack. He tells the BBC that "It's always nice to have a personal sense of home, but that aside - the internet has replaced my need for an address." He's got a job and moonlights as a DJ, couch-surfing in friends' apartments, and and notes that his MP3s never wear out like his records used to.

EDCM via Archdaily. Image by Gaston Bergeret

A while back, TreeHugger looked at 7 Ways To Get Rid Of The Bed, which has turned into a favourite.

images via Designboom

eOffice notes that Japan's famous capsule hotels "are traditionally grimy, and primarily intended as expedient sleeping solutions for drunk salarymen who have missed the last train home."

But

Office of the Future, 1922 prediction

In 1985, in the Harvard Business Review Philip Stone and Robert Luchetti foresaw in 1985 at the birth of the wireless phone that the era of the that you went to and sat at a desk was over; they noted that Your office is where you are. They were off by about 25 years; it takes time