Worldchanging: Ruins of the Unsustainable
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What's an artist to do when a house is on the market for $1,900? Buy it. Transform it. And paint it green.
Thats whats happening in Michigan. A rtists Mitch & Gina Cope recently bought a foreclosed home that was pretty much gutted. So they decided to fix it up. Their ultimate goal? To power the house by enough wind and solar energy to keep it completely off the grid.
".....What I'm most eager to hear next is that creative pioneers are conquering McMansions in the suburban hintersprawl. As Bryan Walsh wrote recently for Time Magazine, "The Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech predicts that by 2025 there will be a surplus of 22 million large-lot homes (on one-sixth of an acre [675 sq m] or more) in the U.S."
Will subdivisions be turned into workshops and performance spaces? Or possibly into small-scale agricultural communities, or enclaves for artisan food-production? At the very least, will they become denser, transit-connected and less car-dependent ... and what will drive that?"
Thats whats happening in Michigan. A rtists Mitch & Gina Cope recently bought a foreclosed home that was pretty much gutted. So they decided to fix it up. Their ultimate goal? To power the house by enough wind and solar energy to keep it completely off the grid.
".....What I'm most eager to hear next is that creative pioneers are conquering McMansions in the suburban hintersprawl. As Bryan Walsh wrote recently for Time Magazine, "The Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech predicts that by 2025 there will be a surplus of 22 million large-lot homes (on one-sixth of an acre [675 sq m] or more) in the U.S."
Will subdivisions be turned into workshops and performance spaces? Or possibly into small-scale agricultural communities, or enclaves for artisan food-production? At the very least, will they become denser, transit-connected and less car-dependent ... and what will drive that?"
