Wisconsin's Backcountry Containers recently transformed a shipping container into a tiny house. Named the Kennedy Model, the compact home includes a well-designed and open interior layout that ...

After one of my most recent Alibaba import adventures, I was left with a shipping container in my yard. These engineering wonders are great for many uses outside of merely transferring goods around ...

Minimalist living and downsizing are still very much "in" right now, but that's not to say there isn't any room left for getting creative. And "creative" is just the right descriptor for this home, an ...

Inside a shipping container currently en route to a school in Puerto Rico, a solar microgrid is ready for deployment: As soon as the container arrives, the system, from a startup called BoxPower, can ...

Government initiatives and disaster resilience programs boost the adoption of solar containers for emission-free power. The ...

While searching for off-grid habitats, I've decided to shed some more light on a crew I ran across just last year, Momoco, a designer and builder of container homes like very few around. Let's take ...