Meet Eric, an engineer living in a 500 square feet wooden yurt on his own land. After leaving the big city for mountain life, he explored various alternative small home options and ultimately chose a ...

AT JUST over $50 per square foot, the Nomad Yurt is a fireproof, weather-resistant update of the traditional Mongolian tent, says its creator, Stephanie Smith, founder of Ecoshack in Los Angeles.

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Way back in the early days of Treehugger, our first writer, Meaghan O'Neill, wrote about ...