I met an interesting guy online and on the phone yesterday. James Burgett runs the Alameda County Computer Resource Center, a non-profit recycling center in the San Francisco Bay Area. For years he’s been helping to keep millions of tons of electronic waste from landfills. He basically takes stuff and finds a way to reuse [...]
Julia kept a close eye on craigslist today and we got a mini fridge for the tiny free house kitchen and a resellable file cabinet. I think we’ll need to have a garage sale soon, it’s getting kind of cramped in there. Julia also spotted some pallets while we were driving along. She also spotted [...]
I’m embarking on a little experiment. I’m going to build a tiny house that's cross between Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond and a Tumbleweed-like Tiny House on wheels.
The only difference is that it will cost me nothing. Any money I spend will be recouped by selling discarded things I find and most of the wood will come from old shipping pallets.
Why Pallets? It just seems like poetic justice for a house that questions consumerism be made from the very things that carried the products to market. More...
Pallet Framing Plan
Floor Plan
Latest Construction Progress
In The New York Times
In the summer of 2007 I had one of those Ah-HA moments that inspired me to write a book, change jobs, build a tiny free house, rethink my values, my lifestyle, and my future. 
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