Rick Clegg ‘75N uses old shipping containers to create alternative housing

Rick Clegg, photographed at his upcycled shipping container eco retreat with frontage on the Loxahatchee River in Jupiter.

Rick Clegg, a 1975 Pine Beach, New Jersey campus graduate, was recently featured in the Palm Beach Post for his venture using old shipping containers to create alternative housing. Clegg, an entrepreneur in Jupiter, Fla. who owns Jupiter Outdoor Center, spent $3,000 apiece on three containers to build a house that he markets on Airbnb as a eco vacation retreat. For more on Clegg and his utilitarian house, read the whole story by Jeff Ostrowski, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer.