April 18th 2008
The Real World Cast Get A Tour Of Their Green Home
Bike-powered computer, salt-water pool, and the distracting Summer Rayne Oakes
Filed under: buildings and construction, cars-houses, film-tv, television — michael @ 10:45 am
The cast of MTV’s The Real World has been thrown into their new green digs — and their initial impressions were mixes of awesome and confusion. It’s pretty funny to see one of the guys attempt to use the computer, only to realize that it needs someone riding a bike to charge it up first.
Thankfully, the cast got their own personal “green team” in the form of Summer Rayne Oakes and Think MTV’s Pete Griffin to take them on a tour and educate them in all the cool eco-friendly elements included in the home. We learn about the sustainable furniture, cool salt-water pool, recycled water from the AC units, solar panels, gardens, dual-flush toilers, and, oh yea, some sexy uses for soy candles.
Even more amusing is how the guys practically fall over themselves chatting it up with Summer. Methinks there may be future requests to get her back for some more green educating. The first vid is below, with more available here.
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Sweet Summer Rayne! She’s the one to educate and inspire the next generation to get mindful re our impact–great post, thanks– W.
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This is giving me some great ideas for my own home. I don’t know if I’d ever go quite as far as a bike-powered computer, but gimme a couple of batteries and we might have a deal!
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This article and its photos:
http://www.treeclimbercoalition.org/TreeTalk/article.cfm?articleid=156
shows all that anyone needs to know about how MTV left a mountain of trash behind and broke the law in Panama regarding public property and access. But then, Maurice Strong didn’t hesitate to violate land rights with respect to native reservations and sanctuaries in Costa Rica, either, which is why his World University isn’t there any more.