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October 17, 2006
MiniHome Sustainable Modern Housing
Check out the MiniHome- it's an environmentally sustainable new modern house design.
Here's what they have to say about it:
Recipe for a good idea:
1. Take the familiar - The lowly Travel Trailer
2. Build it to last, and be easy to maintain
3. Make 350 sf feel like 600 sf
3. Use only Green materials
4. Add Off-Grid, Solar and Wind systems
5. Let it run on biodiesel
6. Keyword: Multi-functional
7. Keep it extremely light on the land
8. Make it beautiful
Combine all of the above into a package easily deliverable by truck anywhere in North America, that can set up on arrival in less than an hour.
Sit back, and hopefully watch it transform the both trailer park and suburb into the new American landscape of affordable, green domestic architecture.
The miniHome uses 1/100th the electricity,
1/10th the fuel,
1/10th the materials,
and 1/10th the water of the average, 2000sf home.
Source: http://www.sustain.ca/
Thanks to Treehugger for the tip on this one.
Also, check this out: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/sunpowers_new_s.php
PS- on a personal note: "Hey, look, I'm blogging again! Not too much, just a little here and there to keep me sane and start up some dialogue with old friends."
Posted by Mark C McKnight at 6:59 PM
