We get a small magazine insert in our local newspaper called American Profile.
The latest issue in today’s paper caught my attention with it’s cover story, Living Small: The big idea behind tiny houses.
It features both the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company and the Small House Society of Iowa City, both of whom I wrote about back […]

I’ve been enjoying the new series “Living with Ed” on HGTV starring actor Ed Begley, Jr, and his wife Rachelle Carson. Ed goes to near extremes along his path of earth friendly conservation, but the show has a very endearing quality and has also featured some good uses for old things.

In a previous episode, […]

Reminisce, “the magazine that brings back the good times,” is the ultimate magazine of bygone American culture. For over 15 years this magazine has featured stories, photos, and recollections of the past. And the best thing about it? All the content comes from it’s readers.

I’ve mentioned before that I spent a great deal […]

There are two parallel housing movements that I have been thinking about recently. The first is “Tiny Houses” and the other is “Low-Impact” homes. Both have admirable merits and a friend of mine mentioned that it reminded him of the “prairie homesteaders” that passed through here in the early days of the U.S. […]