Hope you didn’t miss Graham Hill’s March 9th NYT column, “Living with Less. A Lot Less.” The founder of treehugger.com and other internet start-ups announces: “I live in a 420-square-foot studio. I sleep in a bed that folds down from the wall. I have six dress shirts. I have 10 shallow bowls that I use for salads and main dishes. When people come over for dinner, I pull out my extendable dining room table. I don’t have a single CD or DVD and I have 10 percent of the books I once did.”

He contrasts his earlier lifestyle, when “flush with cash from an Internet start-up sale, I had a giant house crammed with stuff — electronics and cars and appliances and gadgets. Somehow this stuff ended up running my life, or a lot of it; the things I consumed ended up consuming me.” [Read more…]