A Moment in Time of Timelessness So frequently preppers, homesteaders, and survivalists are depicted as doomsday zombie-crazed psychos, but the reality is that this quiet life is beautiful in its rustic simplicity. French photographer, Antoine Bruy, set out to capture…
A Local Family has Built their home on this small trailer which is still on wheels! The Schultz family has built their home on a tiny 8′ x 14′ foot trailer. They can hook up a truck and move it…
Shipping containers are in abundance, so get your creativity on… This is a great way to create an affordable home nearly anywhere. The creativity in this video really got me thinking about the different possibilities of structors you could build.…
How do you make a living? How do you live your Dream? Well, for Jack English, a 93-year-old legend, those questions are easily answered with the same response, “By doing what feels right.” In Mr. English’s case, that means living in a…
Katja Schulz / Flickr A decade before Elon Musk founded his fast-rising rocket company, SpaceX, or ever spoke publicly about colonizing Mars, a different billionaire captivated the world with Biosphere 2. Oil tycoon Ed Bass spent about $250 million to…
All around the world, hip young people are competing to see who can live in the tiniest, quirkiest, twee-est house. But this one has them all beat. Assembled by a combination of origami and nanometer-precise robot wielding an ion beam,…
The Log Cabin Timelapse video posted by My Self Reliance shows what the term “off grid” really means. The video is a condensed, five-minute video of a project that took months. No power tools were used to build this cabin—none.…
I came across this video on Youtube the other day and was mesmerized. This makes me realize how much “stuff” we really need in our lives, when all you really need are food, shelter, and water. Well this video shows…
Watch this incredible video of how this man’s home stands up to the wildfires. It is truly remarkable how we can design structors to withstand Mother Nature’s furry.
Is it even possible to find a self-sufficient prefab house to go green with? Specht Harpman architects thinks so with their new zeroHouse. This beautiful design has all the modern conveniences that many have grown to be accustom to, but…