Category: Container House

Thanks to Rodolfo and crew, the BoxShoppers (this March 9th) will be well fed. Lunch is around 1:30. All are welcome to join the fun.  The workshops on the box help participants develop hands-on skills in the area of green-home construction.  This is done within a communitarian spirit akin to a mennonite barn-raising.  Some folks…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rd0-ieM1k&feature=youtu.be To register for a BoXshop, please call (519) 831-1012

This restaurant & this realtor helped us get the good work done.  Click here to see other sponsors of the Container House project & of Diyode.

I’ve just finished watching ‘It May Get Loud’.  A documentary where three guitarists meet and converse and play.  Jimmy Page is one of them.  The Edge the other.  I grew up learning what emotions were while listening to Zeppelin in my end room in our log house in the country.  My first girlfriend gave me…

     This Saturday at 11am – join us as Paul leads us in framing the roof of the Box.  The lumber is in.  The nails are pointy. CK will be leading the ‘cut the opening’ team, where the goal will be to cut the largest most daunting hole into the box yet.  Why?  For…

Our second BoXshop is coming quick!  Like a cold block of blue steel – at 11am this Saturday Paul our superman eco-contractor from Toronto will begin instructing us in the art of framing & mounting. *  Goal 1.    Mount the external insulated wall onto the outside of the box. *  Goal 2.    Frame…

Man in Box interview on AM 570 news

John Farley, look what you’ve done!!!  (click this link to hear the story unfold)

installing the first window