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Radically smaller houses promise to markedly decrease the homeowner's ecological footprint.

Title	Author, etc.	Medium	Topic	Library	Description
Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties	Daniel C. Beard	Book	Green bldg	Kl Co	Subtitled 'A Guide to Building Shelters in the Wilderness.' Originally published in 1915 by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts.
The Small House Book	Jay Shafer	Book	GB, LS	KSC	One of the first harbingers of a radical way of looking at the houses we live in. Well written, profusely illustrated.
Small House Designs	Tremblay/von Bamford	Book	AltBldgStyles	KSC
Hut-Topia	Marshall, C. J.	Book	Tiny Homes	both	Subtitled "How to create sustainable small homes and homesteads." The author says, "'Hut-Topia' is a place-name meaning "hut" for small house and "utopia" for ideal. The book is a holistic guide that covers the whole gamut of sustainable homes from finding right-sized towns to affordable building to the off-grid "utilities".

Tiny houses @ the BBC -- an informative overview of the field.
A bunch of small-home plans that feature "earthbag" building.
Gary's Hobbit house is as cool a design as we've seen in a long time. At 900 sq.ft., a little larger than some small houses, about $40/sq.ft.
Talk about Living Big in a Tiny House! Here are some of the people who are doing it and showing others how.
Tiny House Blog has an impressive array of houses & pix.
Tiny House topics available at Shareable.net

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