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Category Archives: Design | Research | Comment (The Lab)
Mission Possible and Soap
Brian Postlewait was nice enough to take us on a tour of one of Mission Possible’s amazing social enterprises today. They pick up soap from more than one hundred hotels throughout Vancouver and recycle it for a fee. The re-purposed … Continue reading
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Rooftop Planter
The “sushi roll planter” has been a topic of much discussion around Projects In Place lately as we get ready for some upcoming rooftop installations. OK, so it’s not on a rooftop yet. But it is on a patio, getting … Continue reading
Twenty + Change Competition Poster
A big thanks to PiP Member, Heather Stuart for the incredible SOLEfood submission poster she put together for the Twenty+Change Competition. http://www.twentyandchange.org/ Twenty + Change Submission_5.pdf
Reinventing Detroit: The road from ruin
We thought we should share this article with everyone. We can all be thankful that our Inner City isn’t beset with problems on the scale of Detroit. But at the same time some of Detroit’s worst neighborhoods are incubators for … Continue reading
Copenhagen and its green roof ambitions – Catch Up, Vancouver!
Forwarded to you all from Cornelia Oberlander… Copenhagen and its green roof ambitions Copenhagen is the first city in Scandinavia to have a manditory green roof policy. The new policy makes vegetation and soil a mandatory obligation in planning. The … Continue reading
Soup Can Walks
We are very fortunate to have a growing list of contributors who hear about the work we are doing and offer to contribute in some way. Well, contributions take more convincing than others. Lately I’ve been spending some time with … Continue reading
A Future Artisan Space in the DTES?
This could be a very inspiring space in the future. With Mission Possible needing a bigger office to keep up with their burgeoning programs and enterprises, they have come up with a fantastic idea of renovating their office into a … Continue reading →