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Tips to Green your daily life

May 3rd, 2012

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Tips to Green your daily life


Our impact on the environment is growing and it’s time for each of us to rethink our everyday actions and what that means for our planet.

Try calculating your environmental footprint to assess your personal impact, and see where you can make small changes to help better the planet.
With the plethora of environmentally smart ideas and products on the market, go ...

Wooden Skyscrapers?! Doesn't get much greener then that!

March 20th, 2012

Can wooden skyscrapers transform concrete jungles?

Michael Green - Wooden Skyscraper 1

(CNN) -- Instead of concrete jungles could our cities become urban forests of wooden skyscrapers?

Swapping cement and steel for timber is the vision of a number of environmentally-minded architects who are planning high-rise buildings across the world.

Architect Michael Green has plans for a 30-story wooden skyscraper in Vancouver, while pla ...

Vancouver's Carbon Neutral Restaurant

February 8th, 2012

Eco-Eating: Vancouver’s Carbon Neutral Restaurant


Photo credit: Torontophotoassistant.com

Going carbon neutral was a big thing a few years ago, though it’s sadly slipped from the headlines of late.  Carbon neutrality means having no carbon footprint.  The idea is that through a combination of reducing your carbon output (by using renewa ...

BCHydro Strata Power Smart Incentive Program

February 7th, 2012

BC Hydro Power Smart


Downtown its safe to say that the vast majority of us live in an apartment or condo, built into your monthly maintenance fee is the electricity that is consumed in lighting the common hallways and stairwells. Its probably something you dont really think about, but there are a large number of lights in the building that are on 24 hours a day.

BC Hydro offers some great rebates for home owne ...

The Greenest Building in Vancouver

February 2nd, 2012

The Greenest Building in Vancouver

An ambitious renovation of the VanDusen Botanical Garden promises a green-geek heaven.

The Greenest Building in VancouverPhotograph by Lucas Finlay

When the VanDusen Botanical Garden Association decided it was time for a new visitor centre, in 2000, the idea that the building should be the greenest in the city—one of the greenest in the country—did not ev ...

Tips for making good green choices

January 27th, 2012

Tips for making good green choices

By Patrick Langston, Ottawa Citizen 
 

When trying to make environmentally sound choices when renovating or building, beware of greenwashing - exaggerations of a product's eco-friendliness.

 

When trying to make environmentally sound choices when renovating or building, beware of greenwashing - exaggerations of a product's eco-friendliness.

Photograph by: Thinkstock, Postmedia News

Trying to make environmentally sound choices when renovating or building new can leave your head spinning. These t ...

50 Living Green Tips

January 23rd, 2012

Living Green


Looking for some ways to reduce your carbon footprint and save a bit of money? Check out these 50 tips from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. They are great simple ideas if you already own a house, or apartment/condo, or just somethings to think about if you are in the market.

50 Tips to Live More Green


Stephen Burke
Sutton Group - West Coast Realty
www.stephenburke.com

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