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The Zoetrope Open Source DIY Vertical Wind Turbine Design The Zoeptrope: Open Source DIY Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine The Zoeptrope is a vertical-axis wind turbine made from common materials. Many of the materials can be found at your local hardware store and the rest can purchased online or made at home, for the truly industrious amongst...	The Canada Green Building Council Announces Affordable Green Housing Program Canada's premier sustainable building organization offers free green building registration and certification to charitable building projects...
Reclaiming Sunken Timber From the Log Drive Salvage companies are pulling up logs from the bottoms of rivers, where a century and a half of log drives has left behind a lot of great wood...	Personal Space Doesn't Get Much Better Than This The Archipod: Beautiful, Functional & Environmentally Sound...
The Un-certified but 'Damn Near' Passive House. There can often come a point with sustainable building practices where cost effectiveness becomes questionable, and when your money might be best spent elsewhere. The Damn Near Passive House could be one of those cases...	The City of Sudbury Talks Urban Agriculture According to city planner Kris Longston, Sudburians spend a hefty $270 million annually on food with a mere fraction of that being grown or produced locally...
Green Building Accelerating Around the World Far from the days of being a fringe element trend, the benefits and necessity of sustainable building practices are now sweeping across the globe...	Open House Exhibits the Latest and Best in Sustainable Building Technologies Since April of 2012, the students and faculty of The Endeavour Centre have been working on creating a home that showcases the best in sustainable new construction. Join them on March 9th to check out their success and admire the green building possibilities. ...
The Urban Farm Unit: An Open Source Solution for Urban Agriculture Designer Damien Chivialle re-imagines how we feed our cities, one container at a time...	A 'Stirling' Idea for Charging your Cell Phone Imagine charging your phone with the heat from your morning coffee. With the Epiphany onE Puck you can...
Got a Green Home You Want to Show Off? Nominate Yourself for an Award. Presented by SAB Magazine (Sustainable Architecture and Building) and the CaGBC (Canada Green Building Council), the Canadian Green Building Awards 2013 is open to all. Register your project before March 15th. ...	Perkins + Will Named One of 2013's Most Innovative Companies in Architecture World Wide. Congratulations to Perkins + WIll for securing their spot on Fast Company's list of the top ten most innovative architecture firms in the world...
Storing Power From Wind Farms Belgium's offshore wind power reservoir uses excess power to pump water, storing it as latent hydroelectric power. ...	The FabCab is All That and So Much More. Integrating Douglas Fir timber frames and structural insulated panels, FabCab offers universal accessibility in its eco-friendly homes, cabins and accessory dwelling units (ADUs). ...
Homegrown Veggies All Winter Long? Yes, Please. Introducing BioCity's indoor vertical veggie garden. This beautiful installation made with reclaimed wine bottles allows you to grow arugula, chard, strawberries, cherry tomatoes and more all year round in your very own home. ...	Making Space for Solar Panels An introduction to the math behind the placement of solar panels to optimize your yield, and speed up your return on investment. ...
Introducing Canada EcoHouse Magazine Ecohome is proud to announce the newest project by our partners at SAB Magazine: EcoHouse Canada, a national source of building knowledge and inspiration on Canadian green homebuilding...	The Fun Box! Solar, Wind and Human Powered Luxury at its Finest. The Fun Box is a masterpiece of energy and space saving solutions that translates into it's own brand of decadence. Check out the photos, and don't miss the YouTube video. ...
Portland, Oregon will Soon Generate Hydroelectric Power in Water Pipes Under City Streets. The inside of city water mains has up to this point not been a newsworthy place. With in-pipe power generating turbines, that is now poised to change...	Vancouver: A National Example of Efficient Urban Living (Part 2 of 2) As part of their Greenest City 2020 initiative, the City of Vancouver is getting people out of their cars and onto bikes and trains, as well as setting new standards for energy efficient construction. ...