Category: Green Building Practices

The Green Garden: 5 Eco-Friendly Tools of the Trade

Most people probably think that gardening is a “green” or eco-friendly activity. However, there...

Living off the grid, also known as homesteading, means being disconnected from the power grid and...

The design of a building plays a key role in how efficiently and sustainably it can function....

Home construction, renovation and demolition are all sources of waste and runoff that can...

A green roof, also known as a living roof or an eco-roof, is essentially a rooftop garden or park....

Green initiatives are rapidly gaining traction, as it becomes increasingly evident that we need to...

The majority of people in North America have central air heating with a furnace, which heats the...

Did you know that 60 percent of Alberta is covered in forest? Forestry is one of the...

Tom Mills (host of GreenShortz): I’m with Gretchen Sweeney, and she is part of the USGBC...

Chris Phillips: Hi, my name is Chris Phillips and I’m the president of Greening Homes....

My name’s Graham Robertson. I’ve been here for about five months, working on construction and...

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