Karma Carpentry

Karma Carpentry is a custom woodcraft and residential remodeling company located in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The focus is on humanistic design and creative living spaces, especially tiny houses.

Joint of the Week

What is human nature? Well, the question is a deep one. Clear insight flows from this deep well of a question. What is the purpose of a story about “human nature”? Before we trust the popular story about human nature, we ought to think about its veracity. If there is a vested interest in the [...]

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December 2, 2012 -

I put a wood stove in my tiny house two days ago, and it has changed my life! I got the wood stove last May for $26 at a yard sale in JP, from a man named Cosmo. Last Fall and Winter, i was quite pre-Occupied, and i didn’t get it installed, so it sat [...]

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R&D for living on a small planet

The End Grain
(the unseemly side)

There seems to be a preponderance of reports that foreshadow the U.S. military detaining large numbers of activists or other troublesome people, when some sort of economic and/or societal collapse occurs. Am I going the way of the conspiracy nut, or are these valid? The most striking is definitely Field Manual 3-39.40 by the U.S. Army (3.6 MB [...]

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