When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us.

APARTMENT THERAPY

The home of The Sleeper family (Curtis, Deborah, and their three kids) who live in a cave. Literally. It's a 17,000 square foot gouge in the earth that dates back to a 1930s sandstone mine in Festus, Missouri. Measuring in at 45 feet underneath a forest, this unusual home has to be seen to be believed.

“I Now Have Absolute Proof That Smoking Even One Marijuana Cigarette is Equal in Brain Damage to Being on Bikini Island During an H-bomb Blast.”

Environmental Graffiti

Costa Rica, Cleanest Nation in the World, Environmentally… Costa Rica already has an excellent reputation in the sphere of green issues. It has protected areas which cover more than a quarter of the tiny Central American republic, including national parks and jungle reserves. It already uses renewable energy to generate more than 96 per cent of its energy and it plans to further reduce and offset the emissions created from agriculture, transport and industry. The environment Minister, Roberto Dobles said the state would promote the use of hybrid vehicles and planting of trees through economic compensation. Landowners are paid to grow trees to capture carbon and protect watersheds.

This, according to Esteban Brenes, a conservation finance specialist at the WWF, is the secret of Costa Rica’s success “The fact that Costa Rica has applied the payments on a national scale is what’s innovative.” This is the reason why countries such as Norway are losing out in the race to become carbon neutral. Critics however, point to the fact that Costa Rica has a poor reputation regarding national corruption and that landowners should be compensated for growing crops rather than trees.

Their logic is based on the fact that an already poor country could get poorer through a false economy of tree-planting and that the money could be put to better use, such as improving social justice. Critics are also quick to suggest that this may be part of a larger marketing strategy to put the country “on the map.”

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Do You Realize That If We Played By The Rules Right Now We'd Be In Gym?

Now you can own a peice of Saturday morning movie rerun history. The house(in the above photos) that appeared in the 1986 John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, where it was the fictional home of Ferris’ best friend, Cameron Frye (played by Alan Ruck) is up for sale by Sotheby’s.

The house was designed by architects A. James Speyer and David Haid, both students of Mies van der Rohe. The home’s steel and glass International Style shows Mies’ influence, and the floor-to-ceiling windows provide 360-degree views of the surrounding woods. All just for a measly 2.3 million.

New Dandyisim

When I See an Adult on a Bicycle, I Do Not Despair for the Future of the Human Race.

In what looks to be a solid combination of Germany’s fixed gear community and stunning cinematography, the latest upcoming video project to emerge revolving around cycling is seen here with Fixed City. The trailer delves into the lives and inspirations of various personalities.

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fixed city | Trailer updated! from fixed city on Vimeo.