The 2017 Tiny House Summit is an online program going on for the next few days, and that link takes you to their homepage. Over 40 people who are involved with tiny houses and small-scale living are doing presentations. My husband, Kelly Hart, is one of them. If you go there during this week, each day you can watch a bunch of the presentations for free.

Here is what they offer. I had to ask Kelly what skoolies are… they are school bus conversions. (Kelly was living in one when we met and I moved in with him.)

Presentations about tiny houses and the world of small-scale living, including:

• affordability and financial freedom
• financing
• zoning and regulation
• insurance
• building your own or buying from a builder
• family living
• environmental and healthy materials
• energy and waste
• solar power
• design decisions
• communities and renting
• sustainability
• minimalism
• skoolies
• permaculture
• intentional living

Quite a few of the presenters have written books, organized events, and built interesting dwellings. Guess it’s a sign of how widespread this movement has become that I haven’t heard of most of them!

Here they are.. I like the informality that they are in alphabetical order by FIRST names:

• Abel Zimmerman Zyl
• Alexis Stephens
• Andrew & Gabriella
• Andrew Bennett
• Andrew Heben
• Andrew M. Odom
• Angela Alcorn
• Becky Elder
• Bonnielee Cuevas
• Brad Kittel
• Chris Galusha
• Chrissy Bellmyer
• Damon & Natalie
• Darin J. Zaruba
• Darren Hughes
• David & Jeanie Stiles
• Deek Diedrickson
• Derin Williams
• Felice Cohen
• Hari Berzins
• HCPS Students
• Jake & Kiva
• Jay Shafer
• Jewel Pearson
• John & Fin
• Kelly Hart
• Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell
• Laura M. LaVoie
• Macy Miller
• Pat Dunham
• Saul Rip Hansen
• Thom Stanton
• Tracey Powell
• Valerie & Tim
• Vera Struck
• Zack Giffin

And then there are several more people listed as giving community presentations.

We’ve been involved in small-scale dwelling for a very long time! The school bus where I joined Kelly was only the beginning. We have lived in houses but we’ve also lived in a row of cabins in an old summer camp, and in quite a variety of vehicles. Kelly wrote a book about the vehicles we’ve lived in… that link goes to my blog post here on this site about the book, and here is the book itself. Clicking on the image will take you to its page on Amazon.com.

We’ve lived in one more vehicle since that book came out, an older RV that Kelly redid drastically. We and our two dogs lived in it for half a year just a couple of years ago, traveling around New Mexico State Parks.

Kelly helped one person we know build a tiny house in the back yard of a California city. The featured image at the top of the page is the beginning of it, and here you can see it further along, in a Pinterest-ready image: