BY: ZOE MELNYK With the world slowly coming to the realization that change is necessary in order to prevent an environmental crisis, the idea of sustainable living is growing from a community of nature-loving enthusiasts to a real viable option…
New Harvard start-up lets you have a tiny house experience with no strings attached
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Perhaps you’ve thought about ditching the concept of the traditional house and living in a tiny home, but you haven’t got the nerve to try it out. Maybe you’re pretty sure that an off-the-grid lifestyle is for…
Dutch company designs office-caravans to let you work on the road, off-the-grid, or in the wild
BY:MATTHEW CHIN In the Netherlands, a country with one of the highest workplace satisfaction rates in the world according to monster, one company plans to introduce natural scenery and nomadism to the office. Amsterdam-based KantoorKaravaan, which translates to Office Caravan,…
A Texas design student built a tiny house to shelter his broke student ass and live debt-free
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Design student Joel Weber is a third-year university student who found that living near campus was unaffordable, costing upwards of $800 per month in rent. In Texas, the average tuition at Weber’s university, the University of Texas…
Dutch architect is building off-the-grid homes in the middle of the forest (Photos)
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Dutch architect, Raimond de Hullu, is planning on building off-the-grid homes in the middle of an urban forest. His goal is to bring inexpensive eco-friendly homes into densely populated areas. The home design called “OAS1S” utilizes a…
Watch 200 average citizens re-build their life off-grid to own a house, not a mortgage
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Photo by: Eric Valli for original photo series called “Off The Grid” Where off-grid living once called to mind visions of reclusiveness, loners and dirty hermits, its reputation has since settled in to the golden throne of…
Tinker’s Bubble is a sustainable forest community living almost entirely off the wilderness
BY: MATTHEW CHIN On the southern part of the United Kingdom, tucked away in the thick of a 40-acre woodland in Somerset, England, lies a tiny community that thrives in the wilderness. The community began in 1994 when Michael Zaer…
This guy shows you how to build a woodland fortress and make nature your bitch (Video)
An un-named YouTuber under the channel, Primitive Technology, builds a two metre by two metre hut in the woods, using exclusively materials resourced from the small patch of forest. In place of an axe, he uses a sharp stone, and…
Hong Kong architect’s transforming apartment proves you don’t need a lot of space to have a good home.
BY: DANIEL KORN Hong Kong has one of the densest populations in the world, with seven million inhabitants cramming into a landmass of just 426 square miles. The country’s living situations reflect this, with squat, tiny apartments that are often…
There’s a secret country cabin with a private meadow hiding on a roof above Manhattan
BY: EDITORS In New York City, perched above bustling Greenwich Street atop the sixth storey sits a cabin with a grassy meadow and a southern-inspired porch like a Mark Twain wet dream. According to the New York Times, David Puchkoff…
A 9-year-old girl is building shelters and growing food for the homeless
BY: ZOE MELNYK When most children have their first homeless-person encounter, they are usually stricken with fear, confusion or told by their parents to simply ignore the less fortunate. At age five, Hailey Fort had a much different experience when…
If you’re sick of high rent, make like this guy and build a tiny house inside a dumpster
BY: MATTHEW CHIN With the price of rent in Brooklyn on the rise—increasing to an average of about $2,700 per month—the cost of living in New York has a hefty price tag. Gregory Kloehn, an artist based in Brooklyn, is…
29-year-old builds a house using shipping containers and now his biggest expense is his phone plan
BY: MATTHEW CHIN PHOTOS BY: Japhet Alvarez/ S7vn Photography In a forest on the outskirts of Ottawa, Canada, Joseph Dupuis built a home out of three shipping containers. They cost $3,400 each. Dupuis’ home is a 355 square foot single-storey…
A woman quit the NYC fashion scene to build these epic sustainable bamboo homes in Bali
There is a sustainable material that could be used to build houses that has the compressive force of concrete, the strength-to-weight ratio of steel, could be produced quickly, and lasts a lifetime. It’s not some sort of advanced artificial substance,…
Artist couple built a cabin made of recycled windows in the West Virginia mountains for $500 (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In 2012, somewhere within the vast forests of West Virginia, Lilah Horwitz, and her boyfriend Nick Olson were huddled in a tent over a pot of rice and beans planning their way out of the rat race.…
This city is using tiny house villages to fight homelessness
BY: TYLER FYFE It’s 5:30pm on a Friday and on the sidewalk a line is starting to build outside of the Good Shepherd Centre. Frayed blue tarps clipped to backpacks, and calloused hands clutch soggy cardboard with bleeding marker ink.…
8 reasons why living in a small space is the key to having a big life
An emerging movement of tiny house enthusiasts are working to reconcile the mistakes of generations past, where giant houses were once embraced as the ultimate symbol of achievement only to leave their owners as empty as the spaces they occupied.…
Ecocapsule is a portable, completely self-sustaining home that lets you live anywhere in the world
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Maybe your job requires you to travel or move around a lot, and you’re sick of living in hotel rooms with views of concrete parking lots. Maybe the pencil-pushing desk job has you thinking that you’re on…
This couple bought a cave for $1 and turned it into an incredible tiny home
BY ZOE MELNYK With a steep housing market and difficulty finding a stable job, young people are turning to cave homes for a more affordable alternative. This young couple in particular, Alexis Lamoureux and Lotte van Riel, managed to buy…
Best friends build a village of tiny houses in the middle of nowhere
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA On the Llano River in Texas stands a line of houses testament to a 20-year friendship. Four couples decided that the suburban grind was getting in the way of what matters most in life—friends and family.…