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Microcycle project meets S1′s Mobile Solar Charging Unit in Union Square
Microcycle members with SolarOne's Mobile Solar Chargers create an installation peice and sustainable shopping bags
Last Sunday, June 14th, industrial designer and regular Solar One collaborator Elliott Montgomery staged a sustainability-oriented performance piece at the south end of Union Square that put our brand new Mobile Solar Powered Chargers to creative use. Elliot is very well acquainted with the devices already since, after all, he is the one who built them for us from a completely original design (with the indispensable help of engineer Dustyn Roberts, and consultation from local solar pros Marc Perez and David Gibbs).
Entitled the Microcycle Project, the activity aims to compress the life cycle footprint of an artifact to just a few city blocks, and encourages participants to think about the waste materials in their local surroundings that could be reused. Elliott and crew converted scrap fabric from a nearby design house into shopping bags for use at local stores. The four sewing machines used throughout the afternoon were entirely powered by the Mobile Solar Powered Charging Stations. Passersby were encouraged to consider the waste materials in their neighborhoods, and were offered a bag from the project in exchange for their knowledge of a viable waste stream. Each new waste stream was plotted on a map of New York, and will be posted online as an opensource database of materials for future MicroCycle setups. The MicroCycle map will be available at epmid.com this summer.
Elliot and Crew sewin' up a storm of sustainability!
Micro Project members create shopping bags out of local waste material
