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A Local Family has Built their home on this small trailer which is still on wheels! The Schultz family has built their home on a tiny 8′ x 14′ foot trailer. They can hook up a truck and move it anywhere they need. About 4.2m tall and less than 2.5m wide, the house can be … Read more
Shipping containers are in abundance, so get your creativity on… This is a great way to create an affordable home nearly anywhere. The creativity in this video really got me thinking about the different possibilities of structors you could build. Imagine creating a small eco home anywhere in the world with simple shipping containers. Best … Read more
Katja Schulz / Flickr A decade before Elon Musk founded his fast-rising rocket company, SpaceX, or ever spoke publicly about colonizing Mars, a different billionaire captivated the world with Biosphere 2. Oil tycoon Ed Bass spent about $250 million to build and operate that facility as a proof-of-concept for a permanent, self-sustaining habitat on Mars. … Read more
All around the world, hip young people are competing to see who can live in the tiniest, quirkiest, twee-est house. But this one has them all beat. Assembled by a combination of origami and nanometer-precise robot wielding an ion beam, this tiniest of houses measures about 20 micrometers across. For comparison, that’s almost as small … Read more
The Log Cabin Timelapse video posted by My Self Reliance shows what the term “off grid” really means. The video is a condensed, five-minute video of a project that took months. No power tools were used to build this cabin—none. It was made completely with hand tools—tools like a long scribe, saw, axe, adze, and … Read more
I came across this video on Youtube the other day and was mesmerized. This makes me realize how much “stuff” we really need in our lives, when all you really need are food, shelter, and water. Well this video shows you how to make an amazing shelter. I would love to find time to try … Read more
Is it even possible to find a self-sufficient prefab house to go green with? Specht Harpman architects thinks so with their new zeroHouse. This beautiful design has all the modern conveniences that many have grown to be accustom to, but in a fully green way. The zeroHouse is a small, prefabricated house that can easily … Read more
If you don’t, you won’t survive No, we’re not talking about molten gold! We’e talking about WATER! Water is the most fundamental resource for sustaining life. When you’re on your homestead or wilderness retreat, it is absolutely imperative that you know how to find water sources on your property or property that you may be … Read more
Never Heard of EarthShip Before? It Might Just Be Time For You To Find Out. Earthships are homes that are built out of earthen material and man-made materials (think: trash and recyclables) creating one of kind structures with minimal environmental impact. Typically they are built out of earthen filled used automobile tires and accented with … Read more
Tiny, Portable EcoCapsule Lets You Live Anywhere in the World rent-free, utility-free as early as 2016 Ever dreamed of the off-grid life that literally could take you anywhere you ever imagined? No laborious dwellings to build or homesteads to establish. Well, ask and you shall receive. Slovakian architecture firm, Nice Architects, has unveiled an egg-shaped … Read more
