The Hedge Society has been re-launched as a group blog. It’s a little blog about a lot of things and I will be posting some of the fun stuff from Jordon Cooper Outfitters over there as well as some of the stuff that may or may not end up here. I’m kind of excited about [...]
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Affordable Rental Suites in Winnipeg
For all of the news about affordable housing in Saskatoon, most of the affordable housing units are still over $200,000. There is still a huge need for low rent units. A company in Winnipeg is solving both the problem of creating low rent apartments and finding a solution for how to build on narrow abandoned [...]
Katrina Cottages
I just blogged about this over at The Cooper Cabin. They are Katrina Cottages and are low cost but significant upgrades over the FEMA trailers designed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. As soon as I saw them and some other low impact houses over the years, I can’t help but think of them as [...]
One year later
A friend of mine asked me the other day if we had any regrets about purchasing our cabin last summer. The discussion revolved around the size, the restrictions on use, and the idea of the being permanently anchored to one place for vacation. The Size There are four of us using under 300 square feet. [...]
The Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
Over the years I have become a big fan of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company designs and what Jay Schafer is doing there. Not only does Tumbleweed design great homes, I have really come to appreciate their website. It is an excellent design with a great CMS and uses web services like Flickr really effectively. I [...]
Make Something Day
There is only 26 more days until Make Something Day. From the site. In response to the over-consumptive habits of western culture, Adbusters magazine has been promoting Buy Nothing Day for years now. The Friday after Thanksgiving in the U.S. is typically marked as the busiest shopping day for Americans. But we live in a [...]
The moral of the housing crisis
Michael Lewis on the sub-prime mortgage crisis The real moral is that when a middle-class couple buys a house they can’t afford, defaults on their mortgage, and then sits down to explain it to a reporter from the New York Times, they can be confident that he will overlook the reason for their financial distress: [...]
Too busy
"We can talk on the phone as we eat fast food while using the ATM. Not only are we better at multitasking and becoming more productive and efficient, along with the increased pace, more is required of us. And so we hurtle through life faster and faster, becoming busier and busier. The result is that [...]
