This Woman Lives in an 84 square foot house! Could You Reduce your "footprint" this much?

Question

http://blog.nau.com/2007/07/18/big-coverage-for-the-little-house/

http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/158109.html

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1116938253

Answer 1

I lived in the back of a small pickup truck one summer.   It was great!   Cleaning took 5 minutes and I wasn't burdened with all kinds of c**p I didn't really need.    For a permanent house, I'd want one at least 100 square feet though.

Answer 2

Why is this all about how much you can give up? What ever happened to making the future better? Giving up everything we have spent hundreds of years making is no way to look at the future! Let's invent new power sources that are cleaner. Lets find ways to make people's lives better and more fulfilling instead of having a contest to see who can give up the most stuff! I can live on bread and water in a 10 square foot room for the rest of my life, and have no children and never go anywhere. But that is no way to live!

Answer 3

Yes, I could, but it ain't gonna happen.

Answer 4

Actually Japanese do live in even smaller space.

I just used an online converter to calculate ho much is the size of my appartment, which is 4.5jo in Japanese measurement,

and it turned to be 78.468square feet

I'm not Japanese, but I manage homehow for 6 years now.

Answer 5

no way not with 4 other people and not even by myself i could live in 3 of those though and be happy if i had at lease 5 acres of land

Answer 6

Yes, anyone could if necessary. Many people live in crowded wuarters around the world. I don't think it is necessary for everyone to go this far. We just need to be more reasonable and not be so wasteful. Residential electric is 10% of our CO2 production, so smaller homes will help with our pollution.

Answer 7

I've lived in trailers not much bigger than that when on summer vacation, but I think I would need a few more amenities ... at least the shower.  It just seems to be a cutsie but poorly designed trailer made of wood ... I'm not convinced that making a portable wooden box with a toilet is the best use of wood just to prove a point about footprint.  Footprint isn't about the size of the buillding, it's about the resources you use.

Answer 8

I wish I could! I have dreams of starting my own carbon-neutral completely natural homestead when I get out of college... it is very well planned out already and will be totally amazing. Think organic chemical free farming, solar panels, bicycles... just amazing.

I don't think my cabin would be *quite* that small, though... I'd need more room for my tools and for the general amenities of living eco-friendly (plus a wife and kids and animals too).

Answer 9

People all over the globe live in quarters that size and some smaller. For one person she has quite a lot. In some ways she is reducing her footprint, but driving a truck is not one. Does it explain anywhere how she does  laundry. I would be able to live in a place that size, but,I do not have a shower available at work and I don't think that my friends would like for me to come to visit with the main intention of showering. I think communal living would reduce environmental footprints more.