Container House – the hottest new housing trend sweeping the western hemisphere – may hold the answer to our garbage and over pollution problem. The basic premise seems simple enough: converting abandoned shipping containers, the kind you might see in the hold of a Maersk freighter, into new apartments, condominiums, and communal living spaces. It sounds like something you might see in a post-apocalyptic drama, but trendy cities around the world are starting to retrofit old…

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Modular homes are constructed off-site from the lot where your future home will stand. They are often advertised as modern, energy efficient and cost-saving as they are built in as little as a few months in a manufacturing setting. Your modular home would be manufactured in pieces – complete with electrical finishing’s, wall…