Student-Built Tiny House No Small Feat
Students will sell the Tiny House in the spring (Courtesy Green Mountain College)
Students enrolled in a sustainable design-build course at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont closed out 2010 by building their own house – a rather tiny house. Covering a mere 96 square feet, the structure cost only $20 a foot for a total price tag well under $2,000. No small feat for a bespoke building, especially considering this tiny house has gone green in a big way.
Vermont Town Seeks to Reconnect To Waterfront
(courtesy Battleboro Museum and Art Center)
Residents of Brattleboro, Vermont want a say in what happens to a strip of waterfront and they’re voting with… stickers. Visitors to Renewing the Riverfront at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center can post a small round sticker next to their favorite proposals, which line the walls of the gallery. Just in case they don’t find one they like, there are plenty of blank note cards on hand where a resident can throw his or her own idea into the mix. Read More
Bridge? What Bridge?
Who says local government never gets anything done fast? Last Monday the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) brought down the ailing Lake Champlain Bridge in less than ten seconds — check out its lightning-fast disintegration captured on the video clip above.
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