About this project
Every week, our RISD 2nd Life student volunteers push a whole lot of material up hills and across campus (on Providence’s potholed and icy roads) in far from adequate wheelie bins. We need something far better. We need Cargo Trikes. Here’s WHY:
We share materials. In fact we trade, collect and redistribute all the resources that students might need at an art school or design community. And we practically do it for free!
We manually collect the unused material and supplies from all the departments around the RISD campus and several institutions around Providence, then store them in our trailers for YOU to use!
But for scrappy art students, this is a lot of labor! To help our fellow volunteers fare better on the harsh hills we need something:
- maneuverable
- compact (for storage)
- requires low maintenance/operating costs
- lightweight
- sustainable
- with space for cargo/load carrying ability
We need Cargo Trikes! We’ve built a relationship with Onya Cycles, who's building us the ideal Front-End Loader for our crazy hills and hundreds of pounds of materials! Check these trikes out: 
We hope to raise enough money for two electric cargo trikes. Our rough estimates by our financial guru, inclusive of shipping, production and Kickstarter fees, bring our goal to $9000! Pledge Now!
check out a video on Onya Cycles
HOW DOES RISD 2nd Life WORK? The RISD, Brown University and Providence community are encouraged to come to our trailers to look through our available collection of material and goods, anything from raw lumber to desk lamps. When they find what they like they can either trade in their own used material of relative equal value or make a small monetary donation.
MORE ABOUT RISD 2nd Life: Set up in 2004, 2nd Life was created in response to the massive amount of usable supplies being discarded and disposed of improperly. 2nd Life is entirely run by students. Our trailer is conveniently and strategically located centrally on campus, allowing for students and faculty to share materials in the middle of the school/work day.
2nd Life is more than a recycling center; it's a means to get students involved outside of the classroom with the local community. We hope to continue to be a vehicle for student run sustainability initiatives and a generator of innovative sharing platforms. Our recent gallery show is one example where 2nd Life aims to provide a program in which students can share projects and ideas revolving around sustainability.
Learn more @ our website
RISD 2nd Life is a recycling resource and has no relation to the "virtual gaming world of Second Life"2nd Life's Reward samples
(more to come!):Buttons!
Soaib Grewal's Lamp
FAQ
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
12
Backers
$490
pledged of $9,000 goal
Funding Canceled
Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator on March 5, 2011.
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We understand: we're students too! Come by the 2nd Life trailer and we'll give you a high five!
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We'll send you a slick postcard on a crazy recycled material picked from our trailer, designed and silkscreened by hand by a RISD student.
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With the postcard you'll get two 2nd Life buttons, emblazoned with our iconic 2's, hand made by our fearless leader, Joe Escobar. Wear with pride.
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Our handsome graphic design duo have a slew of breathtakingly designed 2nd Life posters. We'll send you one with buttons and postcards.
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Wait, you want all the posters? Our handsome graphic design duo will get printing and we'll send you all three designs with the usual bells and whistles.
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We're gonna be hard at work screenprinting all these things by hand, so we'll do t-shirts while we're at it, designed and printed with the sweat and blood of uber talented RISD folk. Find one in your custom-made goodie crate. The sweat and blood's free of charge.
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Our handsome graphic design duo are working to produce a compendium of 2nd Life's history, knowledge and story. It will be beautifully illustrated with all the big ideas behind 2nd Life and an inside look at the people running this machine. It will be a bestseller and come signed by the team. The book will come wrapped in two t-shirts wrapped in a poster in a poster in a poster wrapped in some buttons wrapped in a postcard, then stuffed in a crate. Save some space on your coffee table.
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We're a team of artists and designers after all. We're giving away cast-iron lamps designed by Soaib Grewal, which usually sells wholesale for more than a grand. This masterpiece will come with the above mentioned 2nd Life paraphernalia.
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Wow. Email us if you want to pledge this much and we'll talk about what we do and what we can offer. We'd like to build a good relationship as much as we appreciate philanthropy.
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RISD 2nd Life is a student run, art supply and material recycling organization for the RISD community and the greater Providence area. 2nd Life works to collect and redistribute resources back into the public.
