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Ever thought of transforming your caravan into a green home? In the US they have. Eco-innovators have gone back to the future, adapting a classic Airstream trailer with the latest in green technology as part of the 18th Bioneers conference in California this weekend. The sustainability convention brings together 'bio-pioneers' including scientists, artists, investors in clean technology and non-profit activists.
The trailer, a 22-foot Safari model (circa 1958), features a composting toilet, wind turbine and solar panels. It also has bamboo floors, trimmings and cabinet skins as well as a couch bed make from Alaskan yellow cedar. Countertops are recycled stainless steel and the bathroom floors are marboleum, which is derived from flax (seed) oil.
Owner Tim Blair, who runs a green design consulting firm, also offers a restored "Eco-Earth Yachts" for sale or rent. He hopes to repurpose the streamlined trailers as mobile learning, communications and medical "command centers". It might not be particularly green to tow an Airstream around the country with a petrol-powered car, but as housing they could prove to be a new green housing solution. Stewart Brand, who founded the Whole Earth Catalog and The Well online community, said trailer homes deserve to lose their stigma, because dense, urban communities like trailer parks can make ideal centers for sustainable development.
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