Access to tools to help craft your self reliance by Kirsten Dirksen on January 18, 2015 “We are as gods and might as well get good at it,” wrote Stewart Brand in the first Whole Earth …
Iowa couple pick CA landscape with tiny homeoffice on wheels by Kirsten Dirksen on December 29, 2014 Alek Lisefski was tired of paying rent in high-end towns like Santa Monica and Boulder so he decided to build …
Building your own Hawaii minimal house for a vacation’s cost by Kirsten Dirksen on December 22, 2014 Kristie Wolfe spent $5000 to build herself a tiny home on wheels in her hometown of Pocatello, Idaho. It started …
Tiny houses’ polymath: tinker, lyrist, carpenter, cartoonist by Kirsten Dirksen on November 3, 2014 Derek Diedricksen has loved tiny homes since he read Lester Walker’s “Tiny Tiny Houses” as a ten year old. It …
Earthships: self-sustaining homes for post-apocalyptic land? by Kirsten Dirksen on October 6, 2014 On the desert mesa of New Mexico, miles from the nearest town of Taos (pop. 5,700), Star-Wars-like shelters rise from …
Tall law student, tiny house: bachelor builds dorm on wheels by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2014 When Joel Fleck moved home to after college, he wanted his own place, but he didn’t want to pay the …
Austin coder builds timeless cob home using precise patterns by Kirsten Dirksen on August 4, 2014 When Gary Zuker bought an undeveloped piece of land outside of Austin (Texas) 25 years ago, he knew the only …
Teen turns bus into off-grid, $5,600 photovoltaic tiny home by Kirsten Dirksen on June 9, 2014 Nineteen-year-old John was a sophomore going to college in his hometown and living at home. Looking for an affordable way …
Art of living in a Dordogne’s tiny mud home with living roof by Kirsten Dirksen on May 15, 2014 In a small forest in France’s Dordogne, self-taught carpenter Menthé built his home with a living roof and mud walls, …
French carpenters craft off-grid hamlet of tiny dwellings by Kirsten Dirksen on May 12, 2014 A few years ago, a group of carpenters (and friends) began building tiny homes on a property in southwest France …
