Our Eco Bus Project and Travels

For four years we have lived on a self built and retrofitted, mobile demonstration of sustainability. A former mountain transit bus transformed into a live/work space powered with waste vegetable oil, solar energy, composting, rainwater harvesting and space to implement an artistic practice, a homeschooling curriculum, and to rest and nourish tired bodies. This is a slow protest, realistic demonstration of off grid living and is aimed to be a catalyst to inspire social change.

Monday, February 15, 2010

The Recycled Wood Floor

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the wood for the floor came from disassembling production "flats" which are sort of light moveable walls for sets and such. Nando and some friends broke up flat after flat and collected and cleaned each 1x4 of nails and staples by hand and then sanded them.

The walls and floor are insulated with foam and a layer of luon, the walls were framed with some wood molding to cover the metal lip that the original seats were connected to and also to hide the space between the luon and the foam insulation.