I was fortunate to be able to build this house from scratch on top of a used 24'x8' flatbed trailer. This adventure has led me to creating not only a very comfortable life, but possibly more important, is uses very little of this planets resources to live better than I did in a "normal" average home in this country.
As you will experience in upcoming posts and photos, the charter for the world house is simple, be fully sustainable, all electrical needs, water heating needs are solar. water pressure and water storage are all on board. Composting toilet and gray water to the landscaping and gardens. An last but not least, movable.
Of course this all requires a change in thinking, a change in lifestyle and a change for the much better! Can you imagine living a life without all the things you don't use or need? Can you imagine not paying for resources (heat, water, air conditioning, electricity natural gas etc.) you use on spaces you rarely even occupy? And how about the intangibles. Time spent on maintenance, the stress of having so much un-used stuff and the continuation of accumulating this stuff because you have the space to put it. This by the way is called the "marginal propensity to expand" in other words, the more more space you have the more inclined you are to put something in it.
OK so that said, This is not an adventure in being a gypsy or hippie (although absolutely nothing wrong with that!) or for that matter throwing away a life that has been at times very comfortable and secure. O cont rare! This is an adventure on how to simplify and minimize and cleanse towards a truly happy existence without giving up the finest things in life...and at the same time making the world a much better place, what could be more fulfilling!
We will start at the beginning. The tipping point at which the decision was made to live and not to simply exist. This was not any easy or fearless proposition made on a whim or a wild night at the bar. (although a few cocktails didnt hurt) This was born from a deep sence of unsettled deadness derived from living in a big city suburb.
The American Dream.
2.5 cars, a marriage and 2.5 kids, front yard/back yard, thousands of square feet of "living" space and a fancy corporate job with fancy cars. It was drilled into my head from a very young age that this dream was what my goal in life must be, if not I was a loser, and outcast. All my friends, peer pressure and most of all, the economic industrial advertisement complex pushed me hard to fulfill this dream...at all cost.
Whew! now to be clear, there is nothing wrong with achieving this dream, but there are ways to do it without the soul crushing material demands our society demands of us. (more on this later)
It Begins...
