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Inside the world’s smallest eco-friendly home

Most of us want to do our part to help preserve the environment, but would you live in a 3m x 3m x 3m home to do it?

Maybe if it was inside the Cube Project. Thought to be the world's smallest eco-friendly home, the Cube was designed by Dr. Mike Page of the University of Hertfordshire's School of Psychology and was recently put on display at the Edinburgh Science Festival.

Clever design made it possible to include a living room, kitchen, toilet, shower and bedroom inside the tiny space. Check out this 360 Panorama to get a sense of the space and watch the tour below with the Cube's creator.

Page says the home has everything a single person, or "two friendly people," would need to live comfortably.

Power is provided in summer months by solar panels on the roof. Excess electricity is sold back to the grid, which means the Cube's inhabitant (or inhabitants) would collect roughly $1,600 a year for living there. Other prominent energy-efficient features include LED lights, an air-source heat pump — which recovers heat from extracted air — and triple-glazed windows.

Now if Page can only find a way to bring the Cube to midtown Manhattan (where people are actually willing to live in 90 square feet) he may become the green Donald Trump.