Ann Holley and Darren of Protohaus told me that they are in a new article by the New York Tiimes about college students and alternative living. Here is a brief introduction.
Tired of dorm life? Three students, striving to live off the grid, made different choices. At Appalachian State, a student lives in a teepee in the Blue Ridge Mountains; another built a geodesic dome on campus at Juniata College, in central Pennsylvania; and as a class project, a graduate student has built a miniature house and rolled it onto Alfred University, in upstate New York.
Go read Education: Alternative Living
Photos and Intro from the New York Times.
Back in the late 80s, a boyfriend of mine built a geodesic dome very much like the one above. He hid it, illegally, on the mountain where our campus sat. It worked pretty well, but the problem was always water and sanitation. We carried water in, buried waste, and carried out trash. Another problem was damp, since we weren’t running the propane stove all the time. Finally, the dark was a big issue — rough trails and flashlights were a bit unsafe. Drunk partyers got the place eventually, fortunately long after he had left the place.