The freedom of having a home, being self-sufficient, and traveling on the road is the quintessential American Dream. Why not combine them into one?
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This student-designed micro home is completely self-sufficient and can be towed by your average car.
This prototype for a new kind of self-sufficient mobile home was designed with reclaimed materials by an innovative group of sixteen students, members of a Renewable Energy and Ecological Design course at Green Mountain College in Vermont.
The Optimal Traveling Independent Space is a pod-shaped home with a reduced environmental footprint that is equipped with a composting toilet, a rainwater collection system to provide indoor plumbing, and 120-watt solar panels to provide its own electricity off the grid.
The home is selling between $8,000 and $10,000.
OTIS can be towed easily by a 5-foot-by-8-foot trailer, giving the freedom to live a nomadic life to a generation that would rather reduce their carbon footprints than be tied down by mortgages.
“The appeal of living a more 21st century nomadic lifestyle represents a new take on the American Dream, especially among students in this millennial generation,” Professor Lucas Brown, Director of the REED course, explained.
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by Skippy Massey
This article originally appeared at the Humboldt Sentinel.