Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas' Editor-in-Chief, discusses small home living and the growth of New Urbanism with Sarah Susanka of Susanka Studios, author of The Not So Big House.

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Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas' Editor-In-Chief, discusses the topic of the smaller homes living movement, and how downsizing helps you go green with Shay Solomon, author of Little House on a Small Planet and Co-Founder of The Small House Society.

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Build a better world?  Build community?  Build your life?  Building is such a valued activity in the U.S. and Canada that we use the verb to show value, to enhance all kinds of activities.  We build up a nest egg, our careers, even our bodies. With our relatively low population density, our frontier-driven nations seem destined to fill up the empty space on the horizon.  Will there ever be an end to the space?  Will there ever come a time when we’ve built too much?

These are questions that small house movement advocates asks.  We wonder just how much space we need to be happy, is less really more, and can we really build a green future?

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