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...sustainable housing, and for ten years has provided free online green home building advice through our green home building guide, DIY green home building videos on our YouTube channel, and a sustainable advice forum online. We have built cutting-edge LEED Platinum demonstration homes that also meet Passive House standa...

...sustainable and healthy building materials along with energy efficient home design.  Find more pages about sustainable construction and how to reduce emissions on the pages below and in the Ecohome Green Building Guide pages. See LEED and Passive House ready prefab eco homes for Canada and the US  How to design a h...

...sustainable wood products. So we were heartened to hear today that a major investigation is starting in the UK and Europe into the practice of greenwashing. Why is the CMA investigating greenwashing? As a market worth an estimated $160 billion dollars a year in English speaking countries and accounting for up to 90% of...

...sustainable construction - with Ecohome! To read more about building sustainable green homes, see here, from the Ecohome Green Building Guides #BuildingLife #WGBW2019

This step follows in the path of Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 initiative, which began in 2009, with the Greenest City Action Team masterminded & co-chaired by Gregor Robertson, at that time Mayor of Vancouver, and David R. Boyd, Environmental lawyer and author of "Sustainability within a Generation". This group o...

Tesla solar panels "free" for US clients in September! If you do the math, this Tesla Solar panel rental special offer is actually even better than free - because if you live in the sunnier US states with the highest electricity costs, those solar installations are going to produce more payback than they cost to rent. ...

...sustainable architecture is to design and construct buildings that are more efficient and consume less? How about that in North America we as home builders decide to promote building more efficient homes to customers, as our contribution to helping our climate - rather than simply bolting on a whole lot of "extras" (so...

New WA State Legislation paves the way for tiny home eco-villages: Tiny houses, also colloquially referred to as tiny homes, are both an increasingly attractive and affordable housing option as well as a trending alternative lifestyle choice across North America and Canada as people realize that “quality of life” doesn...