Shane MacInnes is a Greening Homes employee who has been helping with on-site waste diversion by turning unwanted scrap material and wood into beautiful and functional home décor. Shane’s inspiration was to reuse the commonly scrapped pieces of LVL. LVLs are used to span large distances in floors that conventional lumber cannot and are part […]
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Photo: GH Crew member Nate Jones with Tenzing Gurung We are happy to welcome Tenzing Gurung, a coop student from George Brown College to the Greening Homes team! We recently sat down with him to learn about what drew him to Greening Homes and about his interests in Green Building. GH: What college program are you […]
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Tree Canada has planted a tree in our name! We recently converted to paying our vendors electronically rather than by cheque. Not only does this save on paper, but we’re also preventing countless drives to the bank! We hit our 100th payment (though this does not include the hundreds of payments to our staff) last […]
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Greening Homes! Greening Homes is very proud to announce that we have been chosen as this year’s winner of the Excellence in Corporate Responsibility Awards in the Waste Diversion and Recycling category. These annual awards are coordinated by Green Living with collaborators Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, CIRAIG, The Natural Step, Pembina Institute, SustainAbility, Sustainalytics […]
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On October 8th, Blue Green Consulting Group hosted one of their famous Design Meets Boots on the Ground events where architects and builders came together to share their insights and experience with an audience of over 50 of the most cutting edge architects, builders and building consultants south western Ontario has to offer. Steven Gray, one of our Construction Managers, […]
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It’s Day 2 here at GreenBuild 2014: New Orleans. I’m off to the Rock ‘N Bowl for a zydeco concert tonight. This’ll be a short post! GreenBuild always introduces one or two neat new things worth a call out. This year, all conference attendees were provided with hotel room card keys made of FSC-certified birch […]
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We are incredibly proud to announce that our Beechwood project won in the Innovation in Sustainability category for the CaGBC GTA Chapter’s annual awards. We beat out some heavy competition from Toronto Atmospheric Fund and the Harbourfront Centre. Steven and Chris accepted the award and the homeowners, Andrew and Maria attended the gala as well. […]
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GH President Chris Phillips will be blogging daily about his experiences in New Orleans at the Greenbuild Conference. — Hello from New Orleans and GreenBuild 2014! Once again, this conference — produced by the United States Green Building Council and the largest green building convention in North America — is enormous, with almost 40 […]
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