Since my post, the group has managed to accomplish much, including presenting their designs to student groups across the country, exhibiting at the World Green Energy Symposium, and attending Greenbuild in Chicago, the largest conference on sustainable buildings in the world.

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Fascinated by coffee table books on boots as art, and a student of collectible boots and boot history, his niche is to recreate or pay homage to lost classic designs of the 1930s to 1960s.

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