Salon has a post on the ‘tiny housers’ movement which is a pretty good overview of the desire to downsize as told through an interview with Ryan Mitchell.
Ryan is the editor of TheTinyLife.com and first got interested in living small when he was laid off from a corporate job in 2008. But he’s just getting around to moving into his own tiny house.
One of the points that Ryan makes both in the interview and on his own blog is that changing one’s life to live small, with a smaller footprint, is more than just moving into a smaller structure. You have to change all your habits.

