Edsart Bedsier, a native of Holland but now a 22-year resident of Costa Rica, has built houses around trees, and his Crystal House is made from recycled glass bottles, according to ticotimes. His next project, as MHProNews has learned from Jim Maher, is to convert unused shipping containers, many of which are stored, unused, in Limón,

into self-sustaining, solar-powered homes, utilizing water cachement for all the water needs.

He has hopes of building 50 modular container homes on his 308-acre property in the rain forest at Bio Caribe near Puerto Viejo on the southeast Caribbean coast. The acreage will be divided into 2.5 to 5 acre lots, and while he will not require buyers of the lots to build container homes, he plans to build ten container homes and hopes to motivate other to do the same.

Water cachement containers will collect the 120 to 160 inches of water that falls annually, which will then be filtered and stored in tanks under the house.

Container homes have been built in Costa Rica in the past, but Bedsier thinks his will be the first self-sustaining homes. He said, “I’m creative and I like to recycle materials. For me it’s an experience to build with something different.” ##

(Image, photo credit: ticotimes–top–Bio Caribe, model of modular container home; bottom–Bio Caribe, photo of container home under construction)

Article submitted by Matthew J. Silver to Daily Business News-MHProNews.