On a hilltop in Victoria, British Columbia, Ann and Gord Baird lived in a trailer with his two children for 20 months while they hand-built their dream home — out of cob. Their funky, multi-generational home has curved, two-foot thick cob walls — a mixture of water, clay (the glue), sand and straw (the strength) [...]
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Funky cob house is first to meet extreme-green standard
Posted in downsizing, green building, green home, Shelter & Community, tiny home, Uncategorized on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Twelve amazing shipping container houses
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Invented more than five decades ago, the modern shipping container is the linchpin in our global distribution network of products. In the containers go toys from China, textiles from India, grain from America, and cars from Germany. In go electronics, chocolate, and cheese. While a number of resourceful people have converted shipping containers into make-shift [...]
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