Shipping containers/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...shippingcontainer homes go, this looks like a luxury tiny home we would like to try in a warmer climate zone This warm climateshippingcontainer home has a cool deck for a tiny house This Tiny House consists of a convertedshippingcontainer skillfully made into a ground level living space. It includes a lo...

...shippingcontainers对家庭是好是坏，对环境是好是坏?”Like many great ideas, the re-use ofshippingcontainersfor housing makes complete sense on the surface, but they may not be the best use of materials when you look at the big picture. While it may work fine in a moderate climate, slugging it out t...

...shippingcontainer homes , and basements. Tiny house builders often don’t include ventilation systems , leaving you penned in with your newly sprayed chemicals, and certainly no off-gassing will occur to the outside with metal boxes and concrete basements. Virtually no air will leak through spray foam after it sets (...

...shippingpallets hanging around that you can bypass any that look a little dodgy during your pallet hunting. Why are someshippingpallets stamped and some aren’t? Pallets used for internationalshippingmust be marked, those used forshippingdomestic products are known as ‘national pallets’, and don’t need to be ...

...shippingpallets. They are generally considered about the same as 'packaging' and rarely if ever returned to their source. They can be dissasembled and used for the planking, but in their original form they lend themselves to many uses - wood sheds, bed frames, chairs and tables etc. Companies that accumulate them are ...

1. Asphalt shingles: Asphalt shingles © Ecohome We’ll start with shingles to get it out of the way, because choosing an eco-friendly, durable roof covering starts first with dismissing any idea of installing asphalt shingles. High-embodied energy, rarely if ever recycled, they deteriorate rapidly with UV ray...

I'm not the Mike Reynolds who invented the Earthship, I'm the Mike Reynolds who thinks Earthships in Canada and other cold climates are a bad idea. A coincidence of names; just putting that out there so The Garbage Warrior doesn't get hate mail that belongs to me. Where did the Earthship come from? It first showed...

The Telsa solar roof tiles are in the news again. They now have solar panel shingle installations going in 8 states so far - with what's becoming competitive pricing. If news of these PV roof shingles is also news to you, check out our Tesla solar roof review from when it was first announced in 2016. What was missin...

Rooftop solar-power production is fairly commonplace now, and you always know exactly which roof has them because they are highly-visible and somewhat clunky looking. They aren’t ugly but, they aren’t really beautiful either. As a follow-up to our original article on the Tesla solar roof here , the next phase of sol...

Siding is important! There is no stage of home construction that you should rush through, but if there were, it shouldn't be siding . Whatever type of siding product you choose, purchase and installation is not cheap, so you don't want to do it again anytime soon. Your siding needs to protect your home from the we...

Invasive plants are defined as plants from other continents, countries or even other regions of Canada. Humans have been introducing foreign plants to new lands since the 17th century, for horticultural, agricultural or medicinal purposes. Due to a lack of natural competitors they can often propagate swiftly and compl...