What’s made of Corten steel, can spend 25 years in the ocean before rusting, lasts more than 100 years on land and is scattered across the PNE grounds this year?
A shipping container.
This year the nearly indestructible boxes are being used as concession stands, art galleries and showcased as sustainable housing at the fair’s Green Scene exhibit.
Two B.C. entrepreneurs involved in the exhibit ...
Bernard Morin would like us to start thinking inside the box. If we did, he says, we could build homes more quickly, less expensively and a lot greener.
Morin, along with his wife and business partner, Jocelyne Labelle, sells homes made from recycled maritime shipping containers. You know — those long, corrugated steel boxes used to transport cargo by ship, rail and truck.
Based in Ste-Adele, ...
This is an awesome house in Kamloops in which the Hydro bill is expected to be ZERO due to the energy efficient and effective design. One day this will be the norm but I am afraid that will not happen until the cost of construction comes down to build this calibre of home.
Via: The Vancouver Sun
It may not have been cheap to build, but a “green dream” demonstration house in Kamloops will ...
Via: CMHC
EQuilibrium™ housing integrates a wide range of technologies, strategies, products and techniques to reduce a home’s environmental impact. It features on-site renewable energy systems to provide clean energy, and help reduce annual energy consumption and costs. Due to its net zero objective, the home is designed to produce as much energy each year as i ...
Via The Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — Vancouver’s roofs are getting greener — with the city in a front group of North American cities embracing the living-roof movement, says the city’s deputy manager.
Sadhu Johnston wasn’t surprised to hear that Vancouver ranked fourth on the continent for square footage of green roofs added in 2008 — the most recent available data.
“Vancouver has been a leader ...
Via: WSJ
For homebuyers, green is fast becoming a priority — whether it's because they want to reduce their energy costs, minimize their carbon footprint or improve indoor air quality.
Here are 10 questions that prospective buyers or renters ought to ask to find out how green a house or apartment is.
1. How big is it?
The bigger the home, the more energy it uses. The U.S. Green Building Coun ...
By Brian Morton, Vancouver Sun
Condo buyers at Concord Pacific's new Cosmo building in downtown Vancouver will have the capacity to plug in and charge their electric vehicles.
"This is about sustainability," Concord senior vice-president Peter Webb said in an interview after Wednesday's announcement.
"We're saying it's no longer science fiction. It's a reality. "It's also not long before hig ...
By Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER - A green advisory team launched by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson earlier this year has proposed a number of measures - such as encouraging people to drink tap water and grow local food - to turn the city into the world's greenest by 2020.
Other recommendations in an "urgent" report issued by Vancouver's Greenest City Action Team include recruiting ...
