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Author Margaret Atwood on The Year of the Flood
Photo: George Whiteside Margaret Atwood is one of the most respected authors of our time, with dozens of books of poetry and fiction to her name, among them Cat's Eye, The Handmaid's Tale, and Oryx and Crake. Her latest book, The Year of the Flood, is
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Coat Hangers and Bike Parts Make Elegant Hanging Light Fixtures
Images: Organelle DesignThey call them Hangeliers. In East Vancouver, designers Alex Witko and Courtney Hunt spend their days between the hardware store, the studio, and the city's alleys and dumpsters. Their little firm, Organelle Design, has generated
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Preform Modern Prefabs
These are tough times for modern prefab, but for every company going out of business, there are others willing to try. Vancouver architect Tony Robins offers his Preform line, built in Surrey, British Columbia, "close to the river for barging and to
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Vancouver Approves Laneway Housing
Lots of cities have underutilized back lanes and everybody pays lip service to the idea of urban intensification and provision of low-cost housing. So you would think that putting housing in back lanes would be a no-brainer, but it has been a
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Quote of the Day: Thomas Edison on Waste
Vancouver designer and writer Jane MacDougall, shown above with her repurposed satellite dishes, writes an interesting article about the Gift of Thrift and comes up with some zinger quotes from famous DWMs,
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Valley of the 100-Mile Diet Bike Tour
Come to the Fraser Valley, home of the 100-Mile Diet, where locavores can feast on artisanal cheeses, organic produce and hand-crafted wines, and get an insider's peak
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September Promises to be Killer Month for Wolf Hunters
Within weeks, grey wolves in the Northern Rockies will be on the business-end of high-powered hunting rifles. Most people remember back in May 2009 that the Obama Administration delisted the wolves from the endangered species
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Beautiful Short Film of Vancouver's Verdant Living Roof
Back in 2007 we wrote about the Vancouver Convention Center as it was being conceptualized. Two years later, Canada's largest living roof is a green oasis floating above the city. This enchanting short film by Dave Budge is a pleasure to watch as it
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20 Green Fashion Designers You've Never Heard Of—But Oh You Will (Slideshow)
Photo credit: Label Karen Stewart and Howard Brown, Jenny Hwa, and Linda Loudermilk are household names—well, okay, if you live in the kind of home where green togs regularly crop up in dinner conversation—but there's a rising phalanx of upcoming
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Snarky Eco Bags From TBWA\Vancouver May Help You Score With the Ladies
Just when we thought there was nothing new under the sun when it came to reusable bags, ad agency TBWA\Vancouver surprised us with its line of canvas totes that takes the mickey out of the push to go green. Designed to get
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When Carbon Neutral Buildings Don't Add Up
via Mario Cucinella Mario Cucinella is one of the greener architects in Italy; I loved his Casa 100K euro that we featured earlier. His Satander building is interesting too, billed as the first "Zero CO2 office building in Milan." But the three storey
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Green Games for Canada's 2010 Winter Olympics?
Torino, Salt Lake City, and China made sustainability promises for their Olympic extravaganzas, and now its Canada's turn to show its true green
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Romses Architects: From Vertical Farms To Backlane Solar Prefab
We previously showed Vancouver's Romses Architects' fabulous vertical farm Harvest Green. They appear to have submitted another entry in Vancouver's 2020 Challenge competition- a proposal for the
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Recession-Ready Apartment Plans Could Help Avoid Foreclosure
In hard times like the current recession, many people rent out basements or rooms in their houses, but apartment dwellers cannot do it easily. Designing flexible, affordable housing is a challenge that architects
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At IIDEX: Elegant LEDs From MPLighting
LEDs used to be rare and noteworthy; now they are just expensive. There were a couple of rows of LED vendors on display at IIDEX, most clunky and inelegant, still put together by engineers instead of designers. A rare exception was MP Lighting from
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HT Naturals: Part of the Solution Clothing
Their Spring 2009 line is made from bamboo, soy, hemp, recycled PET, and/or organic cotton. The prints are really cute, including a scoop neck tee with tie across the back. Hoodies, halters, draw-string shirts and dresses are
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Vancouver Office Building Goes "Off-Pipe"
When I last wrote about composting toilets, I suggested that " if we are truly going to develop a zero waste society and protect our water resources, we are going to have to start thinking about dealing with all of our wastes and not keep flushing some
