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Here's one for the boatbuilders - Phil Bolger's extraordinary AS29 design, conceived as cheap, mobile housing for a single person:
http://www.leow.de/
It's basically a big plywood box, but shaped so cunningly that it functions as a fast, seaworthy yacht. Maybe six month's work for a competent carpenter gets you a comfortable mobile home. Materials - maybe £20k plus a bit more for gear if you actually want to cruise it properly.
This is THE site for self-builders with green leanings: http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/
Lots of extremely helpful, knowledgable people there.
I don't think houses are a good buy as an investment, although obviously they're useful to live in. Over the last ten years, the government has deliberately engineered massive increases in house prices to boost the financial services sector. Higher prices=more money paid out on mortgages, either your own or your landlords=more money being pumped through the financial sector. Unfortunately they pissed it all up the wall in a spectacular display on incompetence. I can't see how prices can be sustained at current levels in the long term.