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PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:01 pm
Homeless Shelter
Several months back my 'bicycle camper' was recognized by quite a few web sites. In some of the comment sections several people were thinking it would be a good idea to make a similar push version for a homeless person. After investigating the web, I came across a design site with a competition for designers. It was called 'Shelter-in-a-cart'. The challenge was to design a cart that would meet the demand for the ever expanding homeless society, creating a substitute for the common grocery cart sort of speak, where as this new cart would be a recyclables collection cart by day for an income, then transform into an enclosed shelter at night for sleeping.

In LosAngeles a philanthropist, after seeing the cardboard box living conditions of a homeless person, decided to create and give away his version of a homeless cart. So far he's given away 70 carts. These are steel frames covered with a tough durable canvas. They have storage compartments for personal belongings inside and have fold-down collection baskets on the front and back for collecting bottles and cans. He calls it the EDAR, 'Everybody Deserves A Roof.'

Althought the EDAR and many of the competition design ideas were great, like my bicycle camper, I decided to go down the rabbit hole a bit further...
Read more here http://highmileagetrikes.blogspot.com/i ... 1292890424


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:32 am
Found this site, never used or ordered from them. At this point its just for ideas. Get a bike and put a hitch on it, you can be fairly mobile.

http://www.bikepartsusa.com/

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:55 am
Dont remember what forum it was posted on but there was a pic of a shopping cart that had been modded into a one man pop up camper.It was pretty cool looking.It folded in on it's self and still left room for storage inside. Image
.If it was modded abit further with some bicycle tires and a seat post hitch it would be perfect for a fuelless world.Matt
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