This lovely little home was built for a woman who wants to be closer to her loved ones, without losing her autonomy.

There is more to the tiny house movement than just living with less. It can also be a story about resilience, sustainability and adaptablility.

Things are moving quickly; Apple employees might get updated offices before Mac users get updated computers.

Full of vibrant colors, patterns and eclectic decor, this tiny house is not as minimalist as its exterior might suggest.

Thanks to some careful, clever details, this 24-foot-long tiny house feels big, bright and open.

This spacious tiny home is great for entertaining and cooking up a storm.

This 598-square-foot model home is one of the almost two dozen homes that are slated to go up as part of a tiny house community.

This family's self-built tiny house is part of a small off-grid homestead out in Maui.

This couple applied precious life lessons -- learned from years of bicycle touring -- into designing their modern tiny house on foundations.

This impressive home features a lot of great multifunctional ideas, plus a custom-built cat run for two felines in the back.

Interested in living in a tiny house, but not sure where to park it? Here are some places to start with.

Even armageddon has a silver lining.

Opportunities are everywhere. Even in poop.

Tiny houses are a hot topic these days, but is working or living in a tiny home (or building one) for you? Dawn Higgins, of Full Moon Tiny Shelters, has some great advice.

Get a taste of tiny house building, thanks to Jake and Kiva, who are documenting their tiny house building process, step by step.

This little shelter, which can be built in less than two days, is designed to be suspended between two trees, without leaving a trace on them.

This tiny house project is developing a multidisciplinary curriculum and tutorial series for schools and for individuals, as well as giving away a "Dream Tiny House."

EcoDomum is turning an environmental problem into a housing solution.

When you want to really pursue your dreams, instead of simply dreaming them, you might need to think outside the box. Outside the housing box, that is.

Hold on to your wallets, because this little dwelling isn't for sale yet, but it is a promising development in the tiny house movement.

The Big World Homes project aims to be a new model of affordable housing, and its modular mobile design could make it a good fit for 'pop-up' communities on unused land.

In light of rising temperatures and worsening natural disasters, temporary shelters seem increasingly relevant. A Spanish firm came up with an idea to convert water tanks into minimal habitable units.

Even with the growing number of tiny apartments and multi-functional homes coming up in the media these days this project shows the English architect had it right in the 1940s.

A rustic tiny house built with plenty of love and on a small budget.

We spend 90 percent of our time indoors. We should worry more about what we are breathing there.

Even Amnesty International is weighing in about the way the Alberta government is going after environmentalists.

Tesla's new boutique shop on Berlin's famous KuDamm beckons, but where is Germany's national strategy for electric cars?

Beekeepers will soon be able to track the health of their colonies right from their smartphone.

The meat vs. veggies debate is a lot more complex than it seems at first glance.

Would you go stinky for steak? By skipping 26 showers for every 4 oz hamburger you eat, you can offset the water used to produce it.

What nutrition labels do, and do not, tell us about what goes into our food

Babies are small. They can occupy a small space.

In general flax has a relatively small environmental impact - and it gets even better when its organic. That's why companies like Libeco have decided to make organic lines.

This elegantly designed small space presents yet another solution for the bed: lifting it up to the ceiling and out of the way.

This well-crafted tiny dwelling has its own space-saving elevator bed that can go up and down with the push of a button.

Who says you can't take it with you? This micro wind turbine folds into a foot-long cylinder for a portable solution to charging gadgets with clean renewable energy.

A young Toronto-based woman is working to build a school in the Kenyan village near where she grew up.

This beautiful area near Salida, Colorado, could become the next national monument, with your help.

Another good reason to move to Colorado.

200 tiny homes, a community building, an exercise facility, a restaurant, and other amenities will be built along the Arkansas River in Salida.

This kind of trailer means you can eliminate the head-banging sleeping loft.

This tiny house builder and architect just built himself and his wife a bigger (but still tiny) home, equipped with a space-saving elevator bed.

This contemporary small dwelling has both a main-floor bedroom and a secondary sleeping loft.

Another look at what's out there in the world of composting and other alternative toilets

Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food.

Tiny houses aren't just for people; bats can be comfy and warm in them too.

This 5W thermoelectric generator converts heat from a chimney or camp stove into electricity for charging USB devices.

Here's an intriguing alternative to single-use plastics -- sourced from avocado!

Unlike TV, the online world has no limits when it comes to advertising junk food to children and teens. This needs to change.

A small subterranean living space becomes a surprisingly luxurious urban dwelling.