Get away from it all. Island House Living, Finland. Thanks to Green Renaissance.
The Power Pot: A Fire Powered USB Charger. Seriously?
Saw this on Green Renaissance’s Facebook page. It’s on Kinbasket Lake in the Kootenays, British Columbia. Wonder if they have a compost toilet on board.
This was yesterday’s thought for the day. I am using systems theory for my thesis, and E.F. Schumacher (Small is Beautiful, 1973) was one of the early systems thinkers. So was EE. The book Words to Live by, from which the Thought for the Day are excerpted, was first published […] Read More
There’s a showcase of tiny houses at the North Van Shipyard Market on Friday nights. The homes are by CLICK modular. The City of North Van is promoting tiny homes as well as other smaller housing such as coach homes and secondary suites.
My back alley is a parking lot, for more than cars. Guess people are trying to avoid the very minimal residential parking permit fee (under $40/yr). Maybe it’s time to charge for alley parking too. Then the city would have a little more money to haul away the old couches […] Read More
Climate change just came to my neighbourhood. The wild wind storm Saturday night uprooted trees all over the city. The soil was so dry it couldn’t hold the roots. The trees were heaved up out of the ground, smashing cars and blocking streets. This is one of the reasons the […] Read More
The city is expanding the neighbourhood energy utility (NEU) beyond Olympic Village to the Great Northern Way Campus. The NEU provides heat and hot water to buildings in the South East False Creek neighbourhood. It is the first utility in North America to use waste heat recovered from untreated urban […] Read More
I have been riding under this fabric beneath the Burrard Street Bridge for awhile now. I thought the City was still doing repairs on it. But then I noticed the sign and realized it was public art! Artists are Rebecca Bayer and Matthew Soules. Very cool. Read more here.
A colleague made these squares for a staff party recently. I was surprised when she told me where the recipe was from – the Peanuts Cookbook! So delicious, thank you Lucy. So easy, even Snoopy could make them. Ingredients 1 cup flour 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup powdered sugar 2 […] Read More