By David Dodge and Kay Rollans TerraView Homes from Guelph, Ontario doesn’t just build homes—they …
241. Vivian Manasc – A lifetime of Building it Green
By David Dodge and Kay Rollans Last year, Vivian Manasc received a lifetime achievement award …
Green Energy Futures – Four stories that matter from 2019
By David Dodge Happy New Year from Green Energy Futures! This week’s episode of Green …
237. God’s green home is net-zero
A few years back, then-minister of Westmount Presbyterian Church Reverend Annabelle Wallace and her congregation …
236. Greenest School in Canada has a solar-geothermal greenhouse
By David Dodge and Kay Rollans “Words without actions are meaningless,” Lacombe Composite High School …
220. Alberta farms fertile land for Rural Routes to Climate Solutions
By David Dodge and Scott Rollans When Derek Leahy told his Ottawa friends he was …
213. First passive house car dealership in Canada
By David Dodge and Scott Rollans While touring the Subaru plant in Indiana, Garrett Scott …
209. Passive house runs on sunshine, good to -30
By David Dodge and Scott Rollans When you step into the Brookfield Symons Gate …
194. Home builders embrace net-zero with new labelling program
By David Dodge Until quite recently net-zero homes were pioneered mostly by an early adopter …
193. Visit 21 Inspiring green buildings on Eco-Solar Home Tour
By David Dodge & Scott Rollans Ever heard of the Eco-Solar Home Tour? Believe …
163. Skeena – Canada’s largest passive house
By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Vancouver, the self-styled “world’s greenest city” has built Canada’s …
157. Straw-bale 101: A tale of two homes
By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson When you hear the term “straw-bale home”, you could …
139. The first certified passive house in Saskatchewan
By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson In 1976, gas prices doubled overnight. Naturally, this freaked …
136. Earthship living in a cold Canadian winter
By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson When we last visited the Kinney Earthship it was a smokin’ hot 30 …
86. Echohaven: An environmentally friendly, energy efficient suburb
By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney To borrow a popular internet meme, what if I …
82. How we built our own Earthship, a radically sustainable, off-grid home on the prairie
By Duncan Kinney and David Dodge When you tell people you’re building an Earthship there …
80: Chasing Net Zero: Net-zero evolution
By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney It’s a beautiful, livable, functional net-zero experiment – Welcome …
79. Chasing Net Zero: Net-zero beautiful
By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Building a net-zero home is an intricate dance between …
78. Chasing Net Zero: Net-zero 101
By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney A net-zero home is more than just a place …
63. The power of passive solar and thermal mass
By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The Ancient Pueblo peoples got free heating and cooling at the Mesa …