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12-year-old Builds Homeless Shelter Yurt from Trash

Posted March 02, 2009 11:29 AM

From Gizmodo:

12-year-old Max Wallack submitted this amazing "Home Dome"—a homeless shelter made from plastic, wire, and packing peanuts—to a recent "Trash to Treasure" design contest. Based on a Mongolian yurt, it's warm and includes a bed. The project both helps divert materials from landfills and gives the homeless a place to sleep (though I wonder how they breathe under all that plastic). Max won $10,000, a Dell laptop and a trip to Boston.

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03/02/2009 12:29 PM

Great timing kid! In the current economy, we may all be needing this soon.

Now if he can just invent a zombie-killing shotgun out of some discarded tomato tins, a clothespin and bits from a 1979 Ford Pinto clutch assembly, we'll be ready for anything.
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03/03/2009 7:20 AM

I can do that for ya

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03/02/2009 2:59 PM

Our homeless do homes with much less all the time.

One drawback of all the plastic is that a whole settlement is destroyed in minutes when a fire starts somewhere.

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03/02/2009 7:57 PM

Where can i buy recieve one? Looks a bit cozier than under the bridge down the street, which is where i'll be if this economy dosen't pick up.

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03/03/2009 1:44 AM

Depends on the bridge. Some clowns kept ours toasty warm.

see Pattullo Bridge fire.

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=Pattullo+bridge+fire&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=NdGsSbTXFoKqsAO2ttzQBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title
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03/03/2009 11:15 AM

To stay underneath a bridge you must join the bridge club.

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Membership in the Fire Brigade is also an asset.
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