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The Shoebox Project for Shelters (French: Opération boîte à chaussures pour refuges) is a Canadian registered charity based in Toronto, Ontario. [1] It is nationally supported by Dream. [ 2 ] It collects and distributes shoeboxes filled by volunteer donors with essential and small luxury items for women who are homeless or at-risk of ...
They are frequently used for xeriscaping projects in arid regions of the American West. [20] On a larger scale, communities and corporations are creating areas of restored prairies which in turn will store organic carbon in the soil and help maintain the biodiversity of the 3000 plus species that count on the grasslands for food and shelter. [21]
In architecture, shoebox style is a functionalist style of modern architecture characterised by predominantly rectilinear, orthogonal shapes, with regular horizontal rows of windows or glass walls. [1] Dingbat apartments are an undistinguished shoebox style. The puritan and repetitive shoebox style is seen as a way to low-cost construction. [2]
Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands are terrestrial biomes defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. [1] The predominant vegetation in these biomes consists of grass and/or shrubs . The climate is temperate and ranges from semi-arid to semi-humid.
The vineyard style is a design of a concert hall where the seating surrounds the stage, rising up in serried rows in the manner of the sloping terraces of a vineyard.It may be contrasted with the shoebox style, which has a rectangular auditorium and a stage at one end (as at the Musikverein).
Shoebox Zoo is a fantasy television series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. It was first broadcast in 2004, by CBBC.
“Wouldn’t budge from $62,500 for a downtown loft. Owner wanted 65k. Unit sold for $275,000 1 year later.” – u/EMH55 2. Kids Do the Darndest Things
The Grasslands Project is a 2016 series of 10 short documentary films about small rural communities in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, directed by Scott Parker and produced by David Christensen for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).