Join us to meet leaders of the Tiny House Movement. They are the builders and the dreamers who have chosen to live in a very small but well equipped space.
Join us to tour two tiny houses on the property and hear some of their visions for future Tiny House communities.
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Tiny Houses are becoming popular for many reasons. People are choosing to live a simpler life, think of how many chores you would no longer have to do in a 400 sq ft house!
College students can take their tiny house with when they go off to school...much cheaper rent (see image below).
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Some are concerned with excessive energy use and they choose a more sustainable lifestyle. Tiny houses can serve as a guest room, art studio, writing retreat, in-law unit...you get the idea.
Registration limited to 40 - please carpool
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2015 CHAPTER EVENTS
Exact dates and registration forthcoming
June 17 - Tiny House Movement, Lecture / Tour, Sebastopol - Register now!
July - Water Waste and Reuse Tour of Lagunitas Brewery and Water Waste Reuse Methods, Petaluma
August - Health of our Pacific Ocean with Tour of Marin's Marine Mammal Center
September - Author Toby Hemenway Lectures on the new book "The Permaculture City"
October - Healthy Buildings Seminar, Redwood Credit Union, Santa Rosa
November - The Latest Lighting Technologies / Energy Plus, Santa Rosa
November - What About Hemp? Low embodied energy building material
December - Year-end Gala
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"We partner with other like-minded organizations to deliver quality sustainable education. We hope to influence building professionals in the most positive way, so they may contribute to a healthier, vibrant, sustainable local community."
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THE TINY HOUSE MOVEMENT
TALK & TOUR
Wednesday June 17, 5:30 - 7:30
$20 General Admission
$15 REC Members (members code will be sent via email)
9817 Mill Station Road, Sebastopol, CA 95472
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The Tiny House Movement is happening in a "BIG" way with people downsizing to live a simple and sustainable life. Meet four leaders in the Tiny House movement and hear what they have to say. The tour will includes two tiny houses on the property.
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THE LINEUP
FOUR INCREDIBLE SPEAKERS INCLUDING:
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Jay Shafer
Four Lights Tiny House Company
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I moved into my first tiny house eighteen years ago. I've been making beautiful, functional, little dwellings for other folks to live in ever since. In 1999 I published my first article about the merits of simple living and began speaking out against the legislated ban on small homes in the US. I believe people should be allowed to live as simply as they choose. Since the recent housing bust, bank bailouts, and subsequent economic downturn, there has been increasing demand for well-designed, affordable homes, and more sensible laws.
I've spent the past eighteen years refining my designs to produce some of the most high-functioning tiny homes available. To work well, such a structure has to meet the specific needs of its occupant(s), without waste or excess. The houses I currently offer through Four Lights Tiny House Company are designed to do just that: provide homeowners with everything they want and need, and nothing they don't. To date, they are my very best.
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Ross Beck
Tumbleweed, Tiny House Company
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Ross Beck drafted his first tiny house as a high school freshman and 30 years later lived part-time in a Tumbleweed. At Tumbleweed, Ross is in charge of everything from taking media request to answering customers' questions about building a tiny house.
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"Another Way To Build" Ward Hensill is a local carpenter who has worked in and around Sonoma County for 40 years doing remodels, new construction, making furniture, and occasionally building small buildings.
Three years ago he began making small buildings exclusively and developed a construction technique using 1-1/8" plywood for floors, roof and walls, eliminating the need for studs and joists, and featuring window seats. His buildings won a recent Sunset Magazine competition, and Lloyd Kahn, the author of "Tiny Houses", said of them, "These little buildings are among the best manufactured tiny houses I've seen. The pop-outs are particularly desirable."
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Wolfgang Dilger
Bauhaus Construction
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Wolfgang Dilger, property owner and tour guide, is the owner of Bauhaus Construction in Sebastopol CA.
Bauhaus Construction was established 25 years ago with an emphasis on efficient Green building principles. Wolfgang was trained as a stone sculptor in Germany, due to health reasons he switched to a career in building. A degree in historical building preservation was followed by a four year career in research and development with two German companies, Isocotton & FaistBaustoffe, that focused on alternative insulation products,(hemp/cotton, coco-fiber, wood fiber) for the building industry. Wolfgang started experimenting with the idea of tiny house living 10 years ago and more recently lived in a 160sq' tiny house for a year while constructing his family home.
REGISTER NOW!
AS A REMINDER REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 40
PLEASE CARPOOL AS PARKING IS LIMITED
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