The “Eco Man” of Ipswich
Who drives a Honda Insight, powers his gadgets with solar panels, and even travels sometimes using wind power–on land?
Another tool Trainer uses is something he calls a wind blade — a vertical advertising board in the shape of an airplane wing balanced on a single wheel or on a modified scooter. It catches the wind and pulls him along on his in-line skates.
A neat article about a guy who really takes alternative energy seriously, but isn’t a dogmatic “my way is the only way” guy:
But he doesn’t stomp. He doesn’t roar. And he doesn’t browbeat. In the driveway he shares with his neighbors, a white sport utility vehicle towers over Trainer’s little silver bullet. It belongs to Melissa Dunford, who lives with her husband in the unit next door.
“We’re kind of opposite of him,” she said, laughing at the contrast of the two cars parked side by side. “But we’re very good friends. They’ve never judged us.”
