How to Fight Climate Change With Small Houses

 Let's talk about tiny space how the small house can foster a strong environmental ethic that leads to real change not only is the tiny house a possible housing option for some but it also challenges many to reconsider how they value physical goods, personal relationships, and the environment all while providing a better amount of economic freedom. 

People living in a large space merely encourage homeowners to buy material goods that they probably don't need. The key to the tiny house is that it inhabits consumption and waste which encourages its owners to lead a minimalist lifestyle. Listening to tiny house owners speak on their consumption habits it's clear that minimal consumption becomes a necessity to live in a tiny space. It changes so much it's like you start out and you know you buy things and then you think about the idea of building a tiny house. You have to start limiting things for a more practical reason than anything else you know thinking well do I really can fit in this house. I love that it's small because then it keeps me in check with everything you know it's like just can't use to have no reason to buy new things but it was like I never had a real reason not to buy the clothes and now that I live here. You have reasons to not do things it's funny you'll go around and walk into a store you'll shop for like six months before buying anything because it's like nothing that you really want or need essentially. The tiny house provides a much-needed reason to stop the unconscious collection of material goods by physically minimizing their spaces. Tiny house owners re-engage with how much they really need and less consumption means a smaller environmental footprint. Because manufacturing shipping and displaying products work wires a large number of resources instead of focusing on the physical tiny homeowners tend to adopt a lifestyle built around common experiences and a recognition of what is important to them with this outlook those who move into a tiny house are not necessarily downsizing. 

But right-sizing their lives by cutting down on their burdens another more abstract effect the tiny house brings to their owners is its ability to nudge people towards the outdoors. Imagining what four walls can look like and understanding that smaller square footage may actually be better. The tiny house movement can help owners connect with their natural surroundings the home then is no longer a place for all your wants and needs instead brings you outdoors into your community and environment helping to show you that the world outside is just as precious as the world inside. But I think what's important to consider is that the tiny house lifestyle can exist separate from the tiny house and can influence the greater public even if the majority of homeowners don't live in tiny houses instead of seeing the tiny house as the expected standard of living. We should view going tiny as an extreme example of successful right-sizing the tiny houses countercultural approach creates an opportunity outside the norms of society where people can understand that the value of the environment and human interaction is much greater than the value of real goods whether a thousand square feet or fifty square feet is right for you. We should draw upon the ideas honed by the tiny-house movement to better understand how to live thoughtfully in our rapidly changing natural world.