I know I haven’t posted much in the Tiny House-of-Chaos section this month.  That does NOT mean that there hasn’t been a ton of stuff going on.  We’ve gotten a new roof, redone the master bedroom (half-way at least) and I’m in progress giving the dining area a significant new look.  But all those entries are in the “drafts” folder of my WordPress dashboard and not ready to be revealed quite yet.  Our philosophy is; make hay while the sun shines (or adapted for Akron, Ohio “get your nuts in order before the snow falls”).

Until then I’ll be feeding you some re:post entries from other lovely members of the Tiny House Movement.  Please check this valuable and vital information out.  Friend them, subscribe to their RSS feeds.  Learn how to go small the stay sustainable!  It rocks:

Now the first entry:  the “Save-Water Brick” and it comes directly from Dornob:

It might look like your typical old red clay house-building brick on one side, but turn it over and there is a shift that hints at a deeper design change – one that is eco-friendly but also expressive in a way that most walls or brick are not.

Designed by Jin-young Yoon to be made from recycled plastic and decomposed leaves, this brick is green from the ground up (so to speak). More than just its composite materials, however, built-in grooves are designed to funnel water for gardening or even long-term underground storage.

In a world where water is becoming the next hot-button resource destined to become scarce, it seems like a good time to start thinking about our most basic building materials and structures (such as bricks and walls) and see how they might shift to accommodate an ever-growing need for homes to have access to nature’s most vital resource.