The Mayday Experiment
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Vandals have unfortunately broken three out of the six windows in my tiny home as it is under construction! As the framing was built around found windows, they are all custom sizes, and expensive to replace and still keep the R-value. And since it is likely to happen again, when I do replace the windows, I need to put on security film and shutters, an additional expense! I'm also hoping to purchase a security camera to prevent additional future problems.
After much urging from my friends, I am putting together a special fundraiser to replace the windows and continue building the tiny house. We have still made progress -- there is a new roof and skylight in now! But we can't go forward with the siding until the windows are replaced. So, I'm asking for your help -- any money raised over the amount will of course go towards continuing the project and further construction. After the windows are replaced, the next step is siding! Then we will move on to plumbing, electrical, and insulation.
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The Mayday Experiment is a year-long experiment in sustainability. Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is building a tiny house in which to get off grid and take to the road, having conversations along the way that will eventually become a film about our attitudes surrounding climate change, environmentalism, and where our poop goes. She is blogging about the experience on Westword.com, and hopes, in the end, to be a part of changing the conversation surrounding our future on this planet.
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We need to change the conversation.
We post links to articles we’ve barely scanned in online arguments with strangers. We absorb lies from what used to be our news.
We eschew friendships with anyone who might think differently from us, recoiling in horror from a label before we know the person it is attached to.
We live in bubbles, where increasingly we only know those like us.
But we have an urgent conversation to have right now, globally: a conversation that affects us all. Because our climate is changing. And we can’t keep arguing about that fact if we expect humanity to have a future.
Even this, something that is now fact because we can see the affects with our own naked eyes, something that 97% of scientists agree on, is still in dispute thanks to disingenuous politics and big money spent on creating controversy. And thanks to Google creating comfortable bubbles for us based on our interests and proclivities, we even now operate with different facts.
How can we change this?
I think a lot can start with listening.
I think we need to go back to one on one conversations.
And I think we need to get outside of our comfortable bubbles.
The Mayday Experiment is an experiment in sustainability. Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is building a tiny house on wheels in which to get off grid and take to the road, having conversations along the way about our attitudes surrounding climate change, environmentalism, and where our poop goes. She is blogging weekly about the experience on Westword.com, and hopes, in the end, to be a part of changing the conversation surrounding our future on this planet. Eventually, these conversations will be collected into a film that records this moment in time, a moment when our conversations make our future, and may even effect whether we have one.
The tiny house is a platform for these conversations and a stage upon which they can occur. It is a neighborly space in which meetings and conversations can occur over a cup of tea, with friends and strangers near and far. The tradition of inviting one into one’s home for a neighborly chat will replace the angry internet rants where one can forget a human is on the other side of the argument. However, it is also a laboratory to explain sustainable systems to people and spark conversations about how we use our resources and what options exist to do things differently. Sustainability doesn’t have to be scary, and it doesn’t have to be crazy – after all, in many cases it is simply adopting habits our grandparents had.
After much urging from my friends, I am putting together a special fundraiser to replace the windows and continue building the tiny house. We have still made progress -- there is a new roof and skylight in now! But we can't go forward with the siding until the windows are replaced. So, I'm asking for your help -- any money raised over the amount will of course go towards continuing the project and further construction. After the windows are replaced, the next step is siding! Then we will move on to plumbing, electrical, and insulation.
____________________________________________________________
The Mayday Experiment is a year-long experiment in sustainability. Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is building a tiny house in which to get off grid and take to the road, having conversations along the way that will eventually become a film about our attitudes surrounding climate change, environmentalism, and where our poop goes. She is blogging about the experience on Westword.com, and hopes, in the end, to be a part of changing the conversation surrounding our future on this planet.
____________________________________________________________
We need to change the conversation.
We post links to articles we’ve barely scanned in online arguments with strangers. We absorb lies from what used to be our news.
We eschew friendships with anyone who might think differently from us, recoiling in horror from a label before we know the person it is attached to.
We live in bubbles, where increasingly we only know those like us.
But we have an urgent conversation to have right now, globally: a conversation that affects us all. Because our climate is changing. And we can’t keep arguing about that fact if we expect humanity to have a future.
Even this, something that is now fact because we can see the affects with our own naked eyes, something that 97% of scientists agree on, is still in dispute thanks to disingenuous politics and big money spent on creating controversy. And thanks to Google creating comfortable bubbles for us based on our interests and proclivities, we even now operate with different facts.
How can we change this?
I think a lot can start with listening.
I think we need to go back to one on one conversations.
And I think we need to get outside of our comfortable bubbles.
The Mayday Experiment is an experiment in sustainability. Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is building a tiny house on wheels in which to get off grid and take to the road, having conversations along the way about our attitudes surrounding climate change, environmentalism, and where our poop goes. She is blogging weekly about the experience on Westword.com, and hopes, in the end, to be a part of changing the conversation surrounding our future on this planet. Eventually, these conversations will be collected into a film that records this moment in time, a moment when our conversations make our future, and may even effect whether we have one.
The tiny house is a platform for these conversations and a stage upon which they can occur. It is a neighborly space in which meetings and conversations can occur over a cup of tea, with friends and strangers near and far. The tradition of inviting one into one’s home for a neighborly chat will replace the angry internet rants where one can forget a human is on the other side of the argument. However, it is also a laboratory to explain sustainable systems to people and spark conversations about how we use our resources and what options exist to do things differently. Sustainability doesn’t have to be scary, and it doesn’t have to be crazy – after all, in many cases it is simply adopting habits our grandparents had.
Organizer
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy
Organizer
Denver, CO
