Cob is earth, sand, and straw. It’s similar to building with adobe but instead of making blocks to stack-up like with an adobe house, cob …

This is Brian, a.k.a. Ziggy. He currently lives at the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in northeastern Missouri. He also writes for Green Optins and recently published …

Oprah ran a story about the recession and the increasing number of people finding themselves with nothing but debt and homelessness. Part of the story …

Thanks to Twitter and Stephanie over at Coming Unmoored I noticed that Amanda over at Constructing a Simpler Life posted the text and photos of …

I’m really starting to have fun with Google SketchUp. Last weekend I started this drawing simply to give myself practice with SketchUp. Tonight I put …

You might have noticed I’ve been experimenting with different drawing programs looking for the right tool to draw the illustrations for the house plan book …

When I was a kid we my dad kept chickens in our backyard and we always had a steady supply of eggs. My dad has …

I’ve been playing with more drawing software in an attempt to find the right combination of tools to draw the illustrations for the Tiny Simple …

I stayed up late tonight trying my hand at drawing with Google SketchUp, the free 3D drawing software from Google. It’s pretty cool, you should …

Jeff has been living in this tiny house about 100 days out of the year, with his wife and dog, while building their larger 1,400 …