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Vancouver, Canada established their place as a leader in reducing carbon footprints of cities and homes years ago with their Greenest City 2020 Initiative led by Mayor Gregor Robertson, and the Province of British Columbia recently introduced the BC Step Code to promote more energy efficient and airtight building stand...

The Gulf Islands off Vancouver BC are awesome, as is the excitement of taking a float-plane flight to get to hidden destinations, including off-grid gems like Pirates Cove De Courcy Island. What's even more awesome is that the world's first all-electric commercial aircraft landed today Dec 10th after a successful test ...

Shared Use Mobility Company Inc (SUMO) launches car sharing  A developer in South Surrey / White Rock BC is launching an all-electric car-share company that intends to make 2,000 shared vehicles available in White Rock and Surrey, British Columbia Canada. The founder of the Shared Use Mobility Company Inc (SUMO) is rea...

...BC Energy Step Code is only one example - find out more about how to do a blower door test. Now you know more about the BC Step Code, learn more about performance homes in the Ecohome Green Building Guide and these pages below :  Vancouver encourages tiny houses, granny suites and adding rental units with tax inc...