The Ultimate Eco-Home (It's Tiny)

By Dawn Stover Posted 07.13.2007 at 3:06 pm 2 Comments

Living in a New York City apartment on a journalist's budget is one way to rein in your greenhouse gas emissions. But a woman in Olympia, Washington, has it all over our two editors who are vying for green bragging rights. Dee Williams lives in a standalone house, not an apartment. But her house measures only 84 square feet.

The tiny house incorporates recycled materials and cost about $10,000 to build. It has heat, electricity and a composting toilet, but no running water.

Williams says she wanted to reduce her impact on the planet, and didn't feel right about spending a lot of time and money on a house when people in other parts of the world have so little. —Dawn Stover

(Image: The Olympian)

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popsci

07/13/07 at 7:40 pm

How odd that nowhere in the article did the mention the Architect who designed the tiny house and his continuing advocacy for small living.

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm

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07/14/07 at 12:48 pm

First of all the Carbon Scare is a hoax to micromanage every facet of our lives. Secondly the Carbon Scare has a hidden, much more ominous agenda, including genocide. It think all those involved in hysterics of the new Religion (and it IS a Religion), should research the implications of this diabolical plan.

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