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Net Zero Energy Home Forum

Feb 26 2008 - 7:45am
Feb 26 2008 - 4:30pm

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Green Ideas Flourish on a Grey Day

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

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.


'Deep Green'- Recent CaGBC Buildings in Balance Workshop

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...


Net Zero Home Coalition: Light House goes to Ottawa

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.

Green & Net Zero Home Renovation: One Example

Apr 12 2007 - 5:00pm
Apr 12 2007 - 7:00pm

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

Net Zero Energy Home Coalition: a wealth of information for Canadians

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