{"id":35235,"date":"2021-01-01T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T08:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=35235"},"modified":"2021-01-02T22:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T20:26:43","slug":"could-ikeas-new-tiny-house-help-fight-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/chief-editors-choice\/could-ikeas-new-tiny-house-help-fight-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Could IKEA\u2019s New Tiny House Help Fight the Climate Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Furniture giant IKEA collaborated with Vox Creative and tiny home builder Escape to produce a tiny house on wheels that could inspire environmental- and climate-friendly changes in the housing industry. According to IKEA, the project&#8217;s goal is to prove &#8221;that anyone, anywhere can live a more sustainable life,&#8221; reported Green Matters. As such, the model IKEA Tiny Home Project was created with that purpose in mind.<\/p>\n<p>The entire trailer unit is a 187-square-foot model filled with IKEA furniture, topped with roof solar panels and stocked with an on-demand RV water heater, Dwell reported. According to NBC, it runs on electric and allows for off-the-grid living. The tiny building also emits zero pollution, including carbon. In fact, the only emissions come from the trailer being towed. Manufactured structures are usually less wasteful than on-site constructions, according to Pebble Magazine. The interior&#8217;s whitewashed panels are made from sustainably grown pine, reported Travel + Leisure, while the kitchen cupboards are made from recycled bottle tops. There is also a compostable toilet and a collapsible desk\/kitchen table, Lonely Planet shared.<\/p>\n<p>Abbey Stark, IKEA senior interior design leader, told Lonely Planet that she prioritized renewable, reusable and recycled materials to make the space &#8221;functional as well as beautiful.&#8221; Stark designed the space as an IKEA show home with sustainable, multifunctional, space-saving and energy-efficient products, Lonely Planet reported. The entire build took less than 60 days to complete and models start at $47,550, Travel + Leisure reported. Curbed created a virtual tour showcasing the eco-conscious and stylish elements.<\/p>\n<p>Some skeptics note that smaller houses won&#8217;t tackle the biggest climate threat from construction: concrete. The very qualities that make concrete a desirable construction material (non-modular form; low-labor requirements; capacity to be shaped) make it non-reusable and unsustainable, NBC reported. While projects like the tiny house might use more renewable materials, large structures like bridges, ports, roads and factories still use concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/ikea-tiny-home-climate-2649706104.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2\">EcoWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture giant IKEA collaborated with Vox Creative and tiny home builder Escape to produce a tiny house on wheels that could inspire environmental- and climate-friendly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594,77],"tags":[8007,10336],"class_list":["post-35235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","category-weeks-highlights","tag-ikea","tag-tiny-house","wpcat-5594-id","wpcat-77-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/minitalo_unsplash.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35237,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35235\/revisions\/35237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}