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Green Ideas Flourish on a Grey Day
Community Coast Reporter, Oct 12 07

Although the dripping skies weren’t conducive to much solar power generation, the energy ran high at last Saturday’s Green Home Open House at Iris Griffith Centre.  Featured presenter, Helen Goodland of Light House Sustainable Building Centre, began by posting the question to the more than 30 participants: “What is a net zero energy healthy house?”

The Now House™ project will turn a 60-year-old WWII house into a near zero energy home—one that produces almost as much energy as it uses.

On Wednesday July 11, 2007, the Cascadia Green
Building Council hosted a workshop on ‘deep green' and the ever important Integrated
Design Process (IDP). Here are the headlines...

Back in March, I was fortunate to be invited to speak at a Net Zero home forum in Ottawa. Organized by the Net Zero Home Coalition, the event drew builders, policy makers, designers and utilities into a room for a day to learn about how to get net zero homes (or as close as possible) on the ground across Canada.

In response to CMHC Net Zero Energy Healthy Housing Pilot Demonstration Initiative, TQ Construction, Brantwood Design and Light House Sustainable Building Centre proposed to investigate the potential

I was fortunate to be invited as a speaker to a workshop in Ottawa organized by the Net Zero Energy Housing Coalition to present BC's progress on deep green solutions within the residential sector and