Small is beautiful... and less impacting!

[Paul Mobbs]

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Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znvW11O6KRM

I can see the face of my local planners if I walked in and applied for this! 
That's the ultimate problem about eco-design today; building codes are written 
by the people who sell the energy/resource dense materials that go into making 
the modern "consumer" home.

You can find out more about the academics involved in this video at --
http://www.tchep.umn.edu/
- -- and there's a summary at --
http://www.tchep.umn.edu/prod/groups/cfans/@pub/@cfans/@tchep/documents/asset/cfans_asset_342524.pdf

The web site of the cabin builders is at --
http://tinygreencabins.com/


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"We are not for names, nor men, nor titles of Government,
nor are we for this party nor against the other but we are
for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom,
that these may be exalted in our nation, and that goodness,
righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace and unity with
God, and with one another, that these things may abound."
(Edward Burrough, 1659 - from 'Quaker Faith and Practice')

Paul's book, "Energy Beyond Oil", is out now!
For details see http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/ebo/

Read my 'essay' weblog, "Ecolonomics", at:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/mei/ecolonomics/

Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations
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