Author: Erin Elizabeth

We have often wondered whether shipping container housing makes sense. But this one, the Kin Kin Container House, certainly does. It’s in the Shacks and Studios issue of my favorite green shelter magazine, Sanctuary. © Troy Walker via Airbnb The shipping container, which was on the property when Troy Walker bought it, provides the solid anchor for the house but is, in fact, less than half the floor area. Troy is a boilermaker by trade so he knows how to work with steel, cut out the side of the shipping container to open it up, and used the pieces...

If you’re up early enough Sunday morning and are near the mid-Atlantic coast, (or like me- right near NASA so I can see the entire freak show) you can catch a “colorful NASA-inspired cloud show.” Shortly before 5 a.m., a sounding rocket will launch from the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s eastern shore. The 670-pound rocket is on a fact-finding mission to support studies of the ionosphere and aurora, but its purpose is overshadowed here on Earth by 10 Pepsi-can-sized canisters. The rocket will deploy the canisters roughly five minutes after launch, or about 96 to 124 miles above ground. It...