I’m loving this new blog that savages the vacuous marketing behind the condos that are springing up all around Vancouver like mushrooms in cow shit:

condohype [via Rob Cottingham]

First impressions are important and Origin’s is one of timeless elegance, thanks to West Coast-inspired architecture and enduring, natural-looking materials like timber, brick and Hardie plank siding.

“Natural-looking materials?” Oh no they didn’t. Oh no they did! You heard it here first, friends. Fibre board is now the new oak.

Land:

• http://www.bchomesforsale.com/
• http://www.okhomeseller.com/
• http://www.landquest.com/
• http://www.bc4sale.ca/
• http://www.niho.com/

Offgrid Power:

• http://www.gaiam.com/realgoods/
• http://www.backwoodssolar.com/
• http://www.energyalternatives.ca/
• http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001011.php Listeroid (Bio)Diesels (Start here… but also see: http://www.utterpower.com/ and http://www.utterpower.com/jeffm.htm)

Lodging/Housing:

• http://www.sustain.ca/ (Ontario)
• http://www.wildernesscabin.com/index1.htm (BC!)
• http://www.yurtco.com/ (BC!)
• http://www.yurts.com/ (Oregon (I think))
• http://www.weekendwarriorcabins.com/ (and http:///www.robinsonplans.com/) (Saskatchewan)

Cohousing/Ecovillages

• http://www.yarrowecovillage.ca/
• http://www.cohousing.ca/