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Bureaucracy a Roadblock to Green Homebuilding Innovations
Technology isn’t always the toughest barrier to green innovations, and a contractor named Reiner Hoyer is experiencing this reality first hand. He’s been in the building business for 30-years, first in...
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Thinking About an Oil-Free World
If you’ve ever watched a kid learn to ride a bicycle, you’ve got a small sense of what the world will face over the next 20 to 30 years. That’s the time period within which the training wheels of crude...
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More and more clear wood finishing products are coming in water based formulations, notes Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man. The reason is a push for less VOCs (volatile organic compounds). In this...
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LED Light Bulbs
Back in 2007, in an attempt to do the right thing environmentally, various branches of government in Canada announced a phase-out of incandescent light bulbs that’s set to take effect January 2012. The...
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Canadian Outdoor Wood Furnace Heating Technology Has Energy Security
As energy prices rise, and the full environmental impact of fossil fuel use comes into focus, more and more Canadians are looking to wood as a sustainable, affordable source of heat. This makes sense...
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Passive House Heats Itself
It’s -5ºC outside and Reiner Hoyer’s new house is 26ºC inside. That’s too hot, but it’s not because the heat is cranked up too high. In fact, the heat isn’t on at all. The only thing overheating the...
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Super Eco Friendly Green Home
I discovered a home that was eco-custom built in Canada with many leading green building technologies. They used photovoltaic plates to generate power from light, recycled materials, LED lighting and...
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Tips and Tricks to Keeping Homes Cool
It’s not difficult cool down during sweltering summer weather with a big air conditioner and loads of electricity. The trick is cooling your home while also being environmentally and financially...
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Compact Waterfront Cottage Rises from Ashes
It was a bad day when fire destroyed the 60-year-old heirloom cottage of Mike and Alice Ogden, a bad day indeed. But from the ashes of this disaster grew roses of success. On the same today you’ll find...
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COMPOSTING TOILETS: How to Buy One That Actually Works
UPDATED 28APR2017: Composting toilets are probably the world’s least glamorous product. They use biological composting action to break down human waste in the presence of oxygen. Useful as it is, this...
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