I wrote recently about a tour of a tiny house in Wisconsin.
There’s a story and video at Yahoo! about a man who, liking the idea of a tiny house, started a company that manufacturers them. The company is named the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, and the owner is Jay Shafer. In the video, you’ll see that Shafer touts his homes for their sustainability (which would have been called conservation in an earlier time).
Although I don’t support public subsidies for private purchases, government would do more for energy conservation by encouraging tiny home purchases than by making misleading claims about how environmentally-sensitive office buildings, etc., supposedly are. Like Hollywood celebrities who live in vast homes and fly in jets while talking about low carbon footprints, it’s hypocritical.
People are free — mostly — to live in the size home they’d like, and that’s as it should be.
I’ve seen stories about these houses before, and find small homes like this intriguing. They also represent a genuine — and not simply professed — green lifestyle. One hears politicians talking about how important green projects are, but their projects aren’t truly green, and surely not as much as living in one of these homes would be.
Link: http://vitality.yahoo.com/video-second-act-jay-shafer-20910192