The EcoBox
Charlotte Clean and Green is pleased to present The EcoBox at this year's festival! It will be on display on a flatbed truck on Elizabeth Ave.
About The EcoBox
The EcoBox is a collaboration between faculty, instructors, students and staff at CPCC with a passion for sustainable practices, technology, and education.
The unit is a self‐contained environmentally sustainable workshop built from a standard shipping container. The workshop should comfortably accommodate two people for extended periods, and include all energy needs and waste disposal without connections to outside systems, excepting sunshine and rain.
The EcoBox, in it's variety of forms, seeks to solve the demonstrated need of:
- Refugees
- Homeless (particularly shelter‐resistant)
- Temporary housing
- Vacation/leisure housing
- FEMA applications
- First Responder office/HQ
- Temporary Medical Office
- Construction Management Office
- Back‐yard workshop
- "Mother‐in‐law" Apartment
- "Man Cave"
- Students
- Artists‐in‐residence
- Retreat Center
- Temporary Hospitality Suite
The EcoBox attempts to create these spaces with minimal energy consumption and requirements, with minimal waste and footprint, and in a manner that is light on the land and temporary or semi-permanent (i.e. able to be diassembled and reconstructed elsewhere).
Find out more about the EcoBox here.