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2/ a tiny home like this. It will have an incinerating toilet which means you don’t need a sewage hookup.Environmental crises are often addressed in meta technology language such as renewable grids but micro solutions are also as important. Huge footprints of huge single family..
3/homes, without walkable sidewalks or public transport, burn up resources, keep people enslaved to debt. Towns such as Portland OR, Great Barrington MA are rezoning to allow tiny homes and ‘ADUs’ in backyards, to create density and affordable housing sustainably. Everyone who...
4/ sees the 26 foot tiny home that Kokernak built that lives on our property upstate, is irrevocably drawn to it. Many environmental solutions at hand by zoning to create homes sustainably like this one, making contraception free (yes, relevant), and providing public transport.
5/ If you care about the planet, affordable housing for everyone, please lobby your municipality to change zoning to permit tiny homes and ADUs, to zone for smaller lots, mixed use development (no sprawl), public transport links and walkable sidewalks. Consider going even partly
6/ Off grid. This tiny is illuminated by plugging a socket into an outlet; heating, AC cost low double digits over months. Incinerating toilets turn human waste to sterile ash. Water is from a barrel. Tiny takes minutes to clean.Think of the resources saved by building smaller.
7/ Lastly — this is hard to quantify, but our modern lives are surrounded by automated devices; they hum, blink, vibrate distractingly. The tiny has a minimum of motorized THINGS powering it. Thus the interior feels very unusually still and peaceful; you hear wind, trees, rain.
8/ I’ve noticed troll activity when tiny homes come up; tiny homes are a profound challenge to bad systems; assail the stranglehold of banks, predatory mortgages and the rapacious environmentally obtuse real estate industry. But building very small and light is revolutionary.
9/ I also see tiny homes as a feminist solution to child care issues; when people have much less debt - mortgage is your biggest outlay monthly - they have much more disposable income for options like part time work or one income lifestyles.
