Nadurra – GH top pick By: greening homes

June 19, 2015
Green Materials

Our friends at Nadurra have been featured in NOW Magazine for some of their amazing floors. We love the selection at their Toronto showroom and recommend their FSC solid or engineered wood floors to many of our clients. Our contact at Nadurra is Michael Boulger – an extremely helpful fellow. If you have a need for wood, cork or […]

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CBC visits a unique bathroom built by Greening Homes By: greening homes

May 26, 2015
Community, Green Materials, Indoor Health, Resource Efficiency, Site Stories

Our past client and the Managing Editor behind TreeHugger.com, Lloyd Alter, was recently featured on CBC’s radio program The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti! As part of an ongoing series called By Design, the segment focused on the uniquely designed bathroom which Greening Homes recently completed as part of a whole house renovation. In stark […]

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“The glory of the entropic potential of water!!” By: greening homes

April 21, 2015
Announcements, Community, Green Materials, Indoor Health, Resource Efficiency

Title Statement by: Jacob Deva Racusin, Monday April 6th, 2015 For most, Easter Long weekend was an opportunity to get out of town or spend time with family. This year, for the members of Greening Homes, it was an opportunity to spend some time in the classroom delving deeper into the realms of building science. […]

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100% Electric: Our First Company Vehicle By: greening homes

December 11, 2014
Announcements, Green Materials, Resource Efficiency, Transportation

We’re incredibly excited to share the news of our first company car, a fully electric SMART two-seater run on 100% renewable energy from Bullfrog Power. We think the design with our logo looks pretty smart, too (kudos to Connor, who designed the wrap in-house)! Part of our founding mandate as an alternative builder is to try […]

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Detailing our Deep Energy Retrofit Project By: greening homes

November 15, 2014
Green Materials, Project Update, Resource Efficiency, Site Stories

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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Day 2 at GreenBuild 2014! By: greening homes

October 25, 2014
Community, Green Materials, Resource Efficiency

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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Day 1 at GreenBuild 2014! By: greening homes

October 23, 2014
Community, Green Materials, Resource Efficiency

  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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BEST PRACTICE WINDOW INSTALLATION By: greening homes

September 20, 2014
Green Materials, Project Update, Resource Efficiency

* This project has been selected as one of three finalists in the Innovation in Sustainability category for the CaGBC’s Toronto Chapter Innovation in LEED awards. Drop by the site for a tour on Saturday October 4th as part of Ontario Sustainable Energy Association’s Green Energy Doors Open Event. — We recently installed high performance windows at our Deep Energy Retrofit […]

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