Are tiny buildings really environmentally friendly?
Certainly there is some reduction of consumption just in the quantity of materials used in the house and the energy necessary to make them comfortable, but ultimately anything we build is consumption. Even the shelter of a tattered coat on a public bench is in its own way consumptive and the humans that suffer with this kind of shelter impact the resources of our Earth in their own way. IMHO, the true value of a tiny house is that it can be simple. Almost Zen like in the way it sits on the Earth and surrounds a single simple place in space. Many find that too simple however, embellishing space with the possessions that make their space a home. That’s why the average home in the USA is around 2700 sq ft.
