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Stadium in Qatar is demountable and relocatable and even has shipping containers

It makes a lot of sense in a country with no workers and five other permanent stadia.




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Nomadic home prototype built out of a shipping container (Video)

A contemporary design for an earthquake-resistant, modular home.




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Co-working offices are built out of shipping containers inside old bakery

This is shipping container architecture that makes sense.




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Shipping containers transformed into prefab college classroom

Made with a tight budget and schedule, this structure was up and running within a matter of weeks.




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Vancouver apartment block looks like a stack of shipping containers

I mean, shipping containers are hot. But does this kind of shipping container architecture make sense?




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The G-pod breaks out of the box

This kind of shipping container architecture makes sense.




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Konbuild shipping container homes break out of the box

This kind of shipping container housing makes sense




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Starbucks opens sipping container drive-thru in Taiwan

It is an eye-catching Kengo Kuma design, but it ain't sustainable.




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Cedar-clad shipping container becomes architect's home office

This architect converted a shipping container to accommodate an expanding office.




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Shipping industry cracks down on plastic waste

Of all the places to take action on marine litter, this one makes the most sense.




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True Studio is a 162 sq. ft. modern shipping container home

This cozy and compact dwelling out of Oregon packs one bed, one bathroom, a kitchen and porch.




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Trolleytrucks are back

An electrifying story from Germany, where they are wiring the autobahn.




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Industrial spaces and condos are neighbors in this Vancouver development with shipping container look

Another look at a controversial housing project.




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Province of Ontario introduces new penalties for careless drivers causing death

Drivers used to get away with murder; new legislation is much stronger.




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Do hydrogen powered trains make sense?

They actually might in certain cases, using off-peak power at peak times.




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Loyal Canadians still want French's ketchup

Almost two years after a ketchup snub sparked a patriotic backlash in Ontario, sales for French's ketchup remain strong.




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Sainte-Marie among the Hurons is lit by 5,000 candles at Christmastime

Called 'First Light,' this now-famous event at Ontario's first European-built settlement is a special experience for the whole family.




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Six more weeks of winter, says Canada's famous albino groundhog

Wiarton Willie saw his shadow this morning, which means the cold weather will stick around.




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Ontario Conservative politicians running from carbon taxes

Going green is going too far in the Province of Ontario




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Ontario's GreenBelt could be turned into "largest condo farm this province has ever seen"

Doug Ford, now leading in the polls, wants to open up more of it for development.




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Inside the completed McEwan School of Architecture in Sudbury

It's partially built out of Cross Laminated Timber; it "immerses students in this relatively new product."




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It's time to stop prioritizing cars over kids

How many crushings or deaths will it take for a school to realize that large moving vehicles and small kids on foot are not meant to mingle in the same confined space?




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Ontario is getting steamed over milk

One newspaper says there is no difference between organic and conventional milk; another says the test pool is far too small to make that conclusion.




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The Tesla Supercharger at the end of the Universe

Does it make sense putting this in a small town up on the Canadian Shield?




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Everywhere you look, the urban-rural divide is changing politics and stopping climate action

Populist leaders are more interested in cutting the price of gas than they are in stopping climate change.




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The Reach Guesthouse combines Passive House performance with classic beauty

Architect Jonathan Kearns shows that you can have it all.




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Ontario's Doug Ford's proposed natural gas expansion is like putting 42,560 cars on the road

Just what we needed in what was a decarbonizing planet.




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Ontario's Doug Ford bans bans on clothesline bans

No green energy issue is too small for the rampaging Premier.




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Passive House and permaculture are a perfect mix

A lot of the permaculture design principles make just as much sense for buildings.




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150-year-old wood used to build Riverwood Acoustics' sound system of tomorrow

Canadian birch hauled out of Canada's Ottawa River adds resonance and tone.




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Ontario government cancels program to plant 50 million trees

Who needs trees when you can have beer in corner stores?




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Right wing populists want to kill us all

They cry "freedom" for them to smoke, drink, drive really fast and fry the planet. Everyone else, get out of the way.




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What makes a bike-friendly town?

In which I argue that bike-friendliness should be measured by how well a town caters to its most practical, regular, and vulnerable of users, not tourists.




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The Ontario Beer Store is a model for the circular economy

It's being killed the name of "convenience."




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Happy Simcoe Day: How good planning changed a country (and made room for a lot of Americans)

220 years ago a lot of people wanted to move to Canada. Here is how they were welcomed.




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The 20 most popular reader's photos of 2019

From ancient trees and strange sea slugs to odd and adorable insects plus more, our most popular reader's photos of the year are a tribute to Mother Nature.




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More than 600 kinds of creepy-crawlies found in American homes

From mites to cockroaches, our house dust is literally crawling with things.




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Top 12 pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables

And the 15 cleanest, according to the annual ranking from Environmental Working Group.




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One of the biggest problems with Mother's Day flowers

A new study finds altered neurological performance in children during peak pesticide spraying for the Mother's Day flower harvest.




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Praying mantises released for pest control are hunting hummingbirds

New research documents that mantises worldwide are eating small birds; in the US, invasive mantis species are devouring hummingbirds.




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Ben & Jerry's ice cream contains traces of controversial herbicide

Ice cream lovers aren't happy to learn they're licking glyphosate on hot summer days.




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Pesticide Fipronil in egg scandal shocks Europeans

Our food chain can so easily be disrupted, as this example of eggs contaminated with a pesticide not approved to be anywhere near a chicken proves




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12 ways to get rid of slugs naturally

Get rid of slugs (and snails) without the use of pesticides that harm beneficial creatures and pollute our waterways.




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Which virus-bearing mosquitoes live near you? Check these maps

The CDC has updated its US range maps to show the which mosquitoes are moving where.




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Protecting plants by deterrents instead of killing insects

"It's not just about the bees, it's about the survival of humanity"




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CDC lists oil of lemon eucalyptus as comparable to DEET for mosquitoes

Even the CDC recommends this botanical ingredient as comparable to DEET for repelling disease-carrying insects.




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We're losing the sound of crickets chirping in the summer

With crickets in decline, some scientists say that the insects' summer crooning may become a thing of the past.




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Mothers’ pesticide levels linked to autism in their children

A new study provides the first biomarker-based evidence that maternal exposure to insecticides is associated with autism among their offspring.




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Kids can't play in these parks

Pesticides make lawns unplayable.




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Scientists call for ban on pesticides that harm children's brains

New study says there's no safe level of exposure to organophosphates, a main ingredient in pesticides.