wroughtn_harv
Super Member
Some here might have remembered last November I came up with an idea of using plastic trash to build homes, not just houses, homes. I haven't been here or any place else much because it has an energy and time consuming adventure.
I can't claim credit for the success we are experiencing because so many others have contributed.
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to a meeting with the principals of the Hunt Institute on the SMU campus. I left there with an invitation to build a home on their campus for an event that will happen next month. For us this is like being invited to demonstrate and display a new kind of car at the Detroit Auto Show. And you don't even have one put together yet.
It seems like everyday something new happens that is more exciting that what happened yesterday. My friends here who were at the ATV bridge build at my old shop, this makes that look like a nap.
Probably the most wonderful thing that could happen in my life happened this past weekend. My grandsons, twenty four and twenty years old, came down from OKC to see the recycled plastic block first hand. My wife told me all week that she was worried about them being disappointed because they seemed so high on the idea over the phone and on the internet.
They arrived Saturday afternoon. They kept this old man up until 1:00 in the morning talking about the blocks. I have been struggling from day one for a good name for the blocks. It took them along with their older sister about thirty minutes. We had three laptops smoking my wifi as they brainstormed.
Ubuntu-blox. Ubuntu is an African term that refers to the community of man. Many people have defined it. One of the definitions is about the community of man and environment.
We already have stuff planned involving college kids here in the Dallas area. Now we have stuff planned in OKC. We have a wedding to attend this Saturday evening in OKC. I told the boys that I would bring up the prototype machine and they could use it to demonstrate and make blocks for the SMU house if they wanted.
It is amazing what they have accomplished in just a couple of days. Today they called me to tell me about getting an appointment with someone pretty important at the OU civil engineering school. They walked in with a couple of the blocks and the next thing they knew they had the appointment. Everyone they talked to got excited about it. The same thing happened at their high school. The teachers were almost instantly as excited about as the boys are.
I don't doubt the reactions they got. How would you feel if you had two young men approach you if you were a teacher and them on fire with enthusiasm about saving the world? When was the last time you talked to a college age kid with a passion for doing something for the world?
They are not unusual for college kids today. The vast majority of them are wanting to do something for the planet and people. There just aren't any ideas out there for them to grab and make their own. The reason we got the invite from the Hunt Institute is the principal there believes in the college kids today and wants to help them find that idea that can channel their energy in a positive way.
My wife told me yesterday that we were the luckiest grandparents in the whole world because our grandsons were high and there were no drugs involved.
Yesterday a friend who has supported me from early on with this called. I asked him what would be the best thing that could happen to the blocks.
"Someone with power and funds adopt it and take it global?" he asked.
I said, "no. Better than that?"
"What would that be?"
"A whole bunch of little people take over and make it their own."
That is literally what is happening. If you are on fb look us up ubuntu-blox. If you are in the Norman area pm me and I will give you the address where the demonstraion and block building is going to happen. It will be about one pm Saturday afternoon.
You can click on my signature (life is good) and go to my web page which has a link to the recycled plastic block houses web page.
I feel I am blessed beyond measure. We are lucky when we have an idea we can believe in. But we are luckiest of all when we have an idea that our grandkids can believe in.
I can't claim credit for the success we are experiencing because so many others have contributed.
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to a meeting with the principals of the Hunt Institute on the SMU campus. I left there with an invitation to build a home on their campus for an event that will happen next month. For us this is like being invited to demonstrate and display a new kind of car at the Detroit Auto Show. And you don't even have one put together yet.
It seems like everyday something new happens that is more exciting that what happened yesterday. My friends here who were at the ATV bridge build at my old shop, this makes that look like a nap.
Probably the most wonderful thing that could happen in my life happened this past weekend. My grandsons, twenty four and twenty years old, came down from OKC to see the recycled plastic block first hand. My wife told me all week that she was worried about them being disappointed because they seemed so high on the idea over the phone and on the internet.
They arrived Saturday afternoon. They kept this old man up until 1:00 in the morning talking about the blocks. I have been struggling from day one for a good name for the blocks. It took them along with their older sister about thirty minutes. We had three laptops smoking my wifi as they brainstormed.
Ubuntu-blox. Ubuntu is an African term that refers to the community of man. Many people have defined it. One of the definitions is about the community of man and environment.
We already have stuff planned involving college kids here in the Dallas area. Now we have stuff planned in OKC. We have a wedding to attend this Saturday evening in OKC. I told the boys that I would bring up the prototype machine and they could use it to demonstrate and make blocks for the SMU house if they wanted.
It is amazing what they have accomplished in just a couple of days. Today they called me to tell me about getting an appointment with someone pretty important at the OU civil engineering school. They walked in with a couple of the blocks and the next thing they knew they had the appointment. Everyone they talked to got excited about it. The same thing happened at their high school. The teachers were almost instantly as excited about as the boys are.
I don't doubt the reactions they got. How would you feel if you had two young men approach you if you were a teacher and them on fire with enthusiasm about saving the world? When was the last time you talked to a college age kid with a passion for doing something for the world?
They are not unusual for college kids today. The vast majority of them are wanting to do something for the planet and people. There just aren't any ideas out there for them to grab and make their own. The reason we got the invite from the Hunt Institute is the principal there believes in the college kids today and wants to help them find that idea that can channel their energy in a positive way.
My wife told me yesterday that we were the luckiest grandparents in the whole world because our grandsons were high and there were no drugs involved.
Yesterday a friend who has supported me from early on with this called. I asked him what would be the best thing that could happen to the blocks.
"Someone with power and funds adopt it and take it global?" he asked.
I said, "no. Better than that?"
"What would that be?"
"A whole bunch of little people take over and make it their own."
That is literally what is happening. If you are on fb look us up ubuntu-blox. If you are in the Norman area pm me and I will give you the address where the demonstraion and block building is going to happen. It will be about one pm Saturday afternoon.
You can click on my signature (life is good) and go to my web page which has a link to the recycled plastic block houses web page.
I feel I am blessed beyond measure. We are lucky when we have an idea we can believe in. But we are luckiest of all when we have an idea that our grandkids can believe in.
