This Tiny Pod Shaped Home Is Designed For The Young Footloose And Fancy Free Nomad Of The 21st Century...

The students at Vermont's Green Mountain College enjoy being involved in environmental sustainability programs during their four year liberal arts degree.
They've been re-defining The American Dream and have as part of Professor Lucas Brown's class, designed a tiny 'living system' home with a very small environmental footprint. The 70sq foot pod shaped home includes a sleeping area, a rainwater collection system, a wood burning stove, a composting toilet and a 120watt solar powered electrical system.
If there's any place left for them to freely roam, these young nomads will have a lot of fun in tiny homes on wheels like this...

The American Dream Gets Washed Away...

Californian artist Chad Wright's Master Plan,
his sandcastle suburb, superbly symbolises The American Dream.
And how easily shattered our dreams can be.
He built a suburb of sandcastle houses on San Francisco's China Beach. It's meant to mimic the look of a typical post-war tidy suburb with its mass produced identical houses, neatly positioned next to each other, just like the little boxes in the 1962 song recorded by Malvina Reynolds, Little Boxes.
But in this very symbolic art installation,
all the little boxes are swallowed up and destroyed by the encroaching tide.
And when the tide recedes,
there's nothing left but dreams destroyed.
What does it all mean we may well wonder.
The global financial collapse, the real estate bubble bursting, the end of a dream, the impermanence of our lives, our world?
You choose.
For this wonderfully clever and meaningful project, Chad created a plastic mold that's filled with sand, you know, in the same way we made our own sandcastles. And dreamed...