Cool Stuff: Mid-March Edition!

Hello friends, Pete here. It's been awhile since we've had a real update (besides my "hey hey over here please vote for me in this contest" post the other day) & we wanted to share with you a few incredible, inspiring things we've come across in the past week or so.

1. This dude in Montecito, CA (near LA) totally refurbished an old Airstream & it's incredibly awesome. We may not have mentioned this, but it's our dream to one day have an old fixed up Airstream in the yard as a home office / guest quarters.

2. The Swedish Tree Hotel. Which is actually a series of weird & totally cool treehouse structures.

3. Former NYC fashion photographer John Wells got tired of the rat race, so he decided to up & move to Terlingua, TX - deep in the southwest near Big Bend National Park - and live off the grid (& blog about it!) in a series of structures now known as Field Lab. Needless to say, we're deeply fascinated by this man's choice & jealous of the simple life he's carving out for himself.

This is Benita. Pretty girl, ain't she?

John Wells, man of the house.

4. Portland's Stumptown (quite possibly THE best coffee ever) is now offering cold brewed coffee. They look like tiny beers, but they below picture produces way more drooling than a photo of beer bottles ever would. Right now they're only available at their Portland cafes, but we have a feeling we'll be seeing these all over the place soon enough. (as seen on CoolHunting, photo via DoobyBrain.com)

5. We've read a lot about seed bombing & thought the concept pretty darn cool. All you need is a blighted lot or small patch of dirt near your house & a wish to see it transformed into something more beautiful. But this is the first time we've seen SeedBoms [via Treehugger]. We love the concept & these are pretty sleek, but the article sorta nails it. Shouldn't the idea of seedbombing be, well, a bit more organic than this? Does a seedbomb need sleek packaging? It's nice, but not exactly in harmony with the idea behind it.

6. The Plastic Pollution Coalition wants people to pledge to go plastic free. Meaning no new plastic consumption. We'd love to give it a shot, though it'll likely be a lot more challenging than we can imagine (especially considering the fact that nearly everything we buy is covered in plastic). 

While we could easily find a few other things to add to the list, this is what we've got for you on the fly. We'll try to make sure we do this more often, for your sake & ours (we both do a fair bit of surfing the internets, & it's helpful to have posts like these as a quasi-bookmark for ourselves).

Until the next one,

P+E