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UBC researchers and the Wet’suwet’en First Nation have teamed up to engineer a sustainable Styrofoam alternative made from wood waste that they’re hoping will reduce the amount of plastics in the environment while giving the dregs of felled trees a second life.
The product is called DicinFoam (Dicin means “wood” in the Wet’suwet’en language). It’s a biodegradable, ligh...
Bedrooms: 1 + 2
Bathrooms: 3
Lot size: 514.4 ft. by 1609.6 ft.
List price: $965,000
The only thing better than a weekend at your own cottage is a weekend at someone else’s, am I right? You get all the relaxation and enjoyment of a couple days by the water, without the constant internal monologue about what needs fixing or trimming or maintaining. You get plenty of ahhh, hardly any hmmm.
At least that’s how it works in theory.
But ...
In the spring of 2022, my husband began building our cottage on some land we bought 90 km outside of Montreal. Gray is a professor, and he had that one summer to get the job done before getting back to work in the city. It was a group effort: he had friends come help for a few days here and there, and my stepdad, Rick, helped hang the rafters. I helped sheathe and cover the r...