Equilibrium Green Home, Kamloops, BC
Our good friends Paul and Danica from Riverside Energy had been responsible for the installation of the Solar Photovoltaics in the Kamloops Equilibrium home and set up a private tour for Mark and I...
View ArticleSabin Co-Housing Community, Portland, OR
In Portland you can build a put a secondary dwelling on a lot as long as it is under 800 sq ft. The original home on the 37′ by 100′ lot was around 100 years old, and in poor shape. There was also an...
View ArticleOff-Grid Straw Bale in Goldendale, WA
Tobiah and his wife, raised their two kids on this five acre homestead. He often gives straw bale home building workshop, so there were a lot of small buildings on his land. Tobiah and his wife live in...
View ArticleNet-Zero Re-Build, Portland, OR
This family, originally from Switzerland, found a home in the neighbourhood they wanted, but the existing home didn’t meet their desire for an energy-efficient – net zero home. Marcus and his family,...
View ArticleEco Friendly Remodel, Eugene, OR
Somewhat in the centre of Oregon, just off the Interstate 5, is Eugene. This city seemed to have an exceptional quantity of solar panels. We saw roof panels in just about every residential...
View ArticlePassive Solar Vented Sunroom, Eugene, OR
What made this John and Heidi’s home unique, was the Passive Solar sunroom. A bright glass room to the rear of the home, south of course. Yes, we have seen sunrooms before, but this one used this...
View ArticleSustainably Upcycled Renovation, Santa Clara, CA
We were pleased to spent a few hours on a Saturday with David of MyEarthBoundHome.com. David gave us a lot of great information and we saw that green building wasn’t just his business, it is his...
View ArticleOff-Grid Straw Bale Home, Northern California
I had been really looking forward to this stop on the tour…some long off dream of living on an acreage with an off-grid home and my own art studio… that is my dream, Stan and Judy are living theirs....
View ArticleNet-Zero, Leeds Platinum Home, Cupertino, CA
This newly build home in Cupertino seemed to have every green and modern feature imaginable. Homeowners David and Stephania are 2 of 3 principles from “Integrated Design Associates, Inc. (IDeAs) is a...
View ArticleGreening before it became popular, Los Angeles, CA
Julia developed an interest in sustainability over 30 years ago. She spent years learning and transforming her 1911 home and yard into an ongoing eco-research centre, allowing her home to be open to...
View ArticlePassive Solar Sunroom Addition, Breckenridge, CO
Breckenridge has a very high elevation making the sun incredibly bright, almost blinding. The people are active in the area and seem to be very fit. Obviously the ski hills make the area famous, but it...
View ArticleRastra Block Home, Bill’s Ranch, Frisco, CO
Justin and Kim like to travel and their work as Naturopathic doctors has taken them to several third world countries. In their work and travel they have seen families living without electricity or...
View ArticleAn ECO Friendly Renovation Guide
So you have decided that 2011 is the year you will finally redo the kitchen – or bathroom – or insulate the attic – or – but this time you want to make better choices. So where do you turn? A Canadian...
View ArticleCampaign for safer cosmetics, shampoos and products
This story is also somewhat personal and it is not just about cosmetics, it’s also about shampoos, soaps and everyday products. Yes eco friend, products used by all members of our families. Many of...
View ArticleThe Dirty Truth about Recycled Plastics
I was on an island in the middle of the ocean, a few miles outside of Belize, no people for miles, yet there were piles of plastic bottles, bags and other plastic garbage washed up on the shore. This...
View ArticleEcoNest® Straw Clay Home, Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe is counted as America’s oldest capital city and has an abundance of adobe-styled homes and businesses. These buildings are distinctive, historical representations, that blend Spanish, Native...
View ArticleWorlds Greenest Home, San Francisco: part 1
Robin’s San Francisco home has the distinction of being the first home in an urban U.S. setting to get its electricity from a wind turbine… a fact that homeowner Robin wants to improve. Robin of...
View ArticleWorld’s Greenest Home, San Francisco: HGTV videos
We visited Robin last fall on our ECO tour and we were amazed at the extent of the green features in her home. The previous post is here: San Francisco Solar and Wind Powered Home. Robin really has to...
View ArticleOff-Grid Timber Frame, Turtle Valley, BC
Marjorie lives in an off-the-grid home in the mountains near Turtle Valley, about 45 minutes from Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada. Marjorie is a strong and extremely self-sufficient woman and was...
View ArticleRenovating a Neglected Log Home
Mark and I (Terry – your eco friend) have always been eco enthusiasts and dream of one day living in an off-grid home. A few years ago we renovated a Moose Mountain Log Home on 15 acres just outside of...
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