Choosing a Solar System Location in Canada
How do you choose between a ground mounted solar system and a rooftop mounted system? This article will explain the benefits of each.
Get the Facts on Formaldehyde in Bamboo Flooring
Bamboo is an excellent green building material. It’s fast growing, sustainable, and really beautiful. Bamboo floors are a wonderful choice when renovating or building new. But even these sustainable floors contain a bit of formaldehyde. Learn what standards to look for when purchasing and how to ensure you are not exposed to the chemical.
Mobile Trading Apps And Environmental Companies
Being kind to the earth involves more than buying an electric car. Heating and cooling our homes and commercial buildings now creates more carbon emissions each year than the transportation sector. Using sustainable building materials can reduce the amount of energy we consume to to keep those building comfortable and save money in lower utility bills at the same time. It’s a win/win situation for us all. Green building techniques will play an increasingly important role in the building trades…
What Businesses Stand to Gain By Switching to Renewables
The way forward for any company, large or small, is to look towards sustainability and how to make a difference. With lowering costs of solar energy and battery storage, even a small business can do its part to reduce their carbon footprint. Solar power costs have dropped about 10% each year, so it really is possible for more companies to make the investment in renewables.
Making Renovations For Energy Savings
People undertake home renovations for many different reasons. Some want to increase the home’s market value. Others like to incorporate new features to keep the home looking modern, while still others just want a fresh look every so often. But you can also undertake home renovations for energy savings!
HIDEAGATE is a Sleek, Simple Home Gate Solution
The HIDEAGATE gate solution is an innovative model that allows you to section off stairs or rooms in the home in a way that is simple and sleek.
Natural Wool Insulation Creates Smarter, Healthier Spaces
Natural wool insulation is sustainable choice for green home building. Wool insulation offers health and environmental benefits and is a popular choice among architects, builders, and homeowners.
A Sustainable Home for Saving Money (and Mother Earth)
Tips for making a more sustainable home: learn why switching your lightbulbs and catching your rainwater makes such a difference!
Residential Energy Efficiency: Taking It To The Next Level
Recent years have seen an explosion of advances in design, technology and other resources to reduce waste and drive down utility bills. The problem is that many property owners still don’t take advantage of energy saving opportunities, even when they demonstrably save money over the long run.
Natural Slate Offers Eco-Friendly Advantages
Natural slate offers an economically competitive, totally sustainable alternative for roofs and cladding. Conducted by independent international studies, natural slate has been recognized for producing the least negative effects on the physical environment.
Human Impact vs. the Environment – What can we do about it?
Millions of people make decisions that will impact the environment for better or worse. For the past 20 years, the world’s leaders have been working towards implementing processes, laws, legislations and infrastructure that will help to protect the environment and improve sustainability. There are always ongoing threats to the environment. However, there have been some recent decisions that will have a major impact on the environment. What are some alternative solutions that could have been taken? Technology is best solution…
Improve Your Home’s Sustainability With Natural Stone
Are you considering remodeling, building a new home, or just wondering how to improve your dream home’s sustainability? Consider natural stone!
Eco-friendly Methods of Waste Removal
There is no doubt that our waste stream is on the rise. But if we use eco-friendly methods to remove waste, the damage caused to the environment can be significantly reduced. Recycle the waste The first step is to focus on waste separation. Often recyclable products are mixed with non-recyclable ones which makes it difficult to recycle. Always make sure that you separate the non-recyclable waste from the recyclable one. In case the waste collection facility doesn’t have a provision…
5 Things You Need To Know Before Double Glazing Your Windows
Double glazed windows are a sustainable and relatively affordable home energy efficiency upgrade. If you plan to buy new double-glazed windows for your property, here’s what you need to know.
Recycled Plastic Fencing can be an Easy, Ecologically-Friendly Option for your Home
Learn how recycled plastic fencing can be an easy, ecologically-friendly option for your home.
3 Things you Didn’t Know Could be LEED Certified
LEED certification means more than offices and homes. We’ve pulled together a list of interesting projects most people might overlook when it comes to achieving LEED certification.
Building Renewable Energy Structures with Sustainable Wood
Sustainable wood offers unmatched beauty and a strength-to-weight ratio that exceeds that of metal, making it an attractive option for renewable energy structures.
The Sights and Sounds of a Sustainable Lifestyle
What can you undertake at home for a more sustainable lifestyle?