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Toboom - Winner of Formica Canada’s Industrial Design Competition
Design

Canadian students win first prize at Formica’s 2021 FORM Student Innovation Competition

Formica Canada runs an annual design competition called the FORM Student Innovation Competition, and it has been won by University of Montreal students Bénédic...

Vale Inco Living With Lakes Centre
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Perkins + Will Named One of 2013's Most Innovative Companies in Architecture World Wide.

Having admired their work on numerous occasions we are not at all surprised that Perkins + Will made the Fast Company list of the world's top ten most innovati...

Smart Homes of the Future, Survey reveals what Adults & Kids think sustainable
Innovation

The Future of Smart Homes, a recent survey explores how our homes will change to respond to climate change

...innovationsthat could be ubiquitous in homes of the future. However here at EcoHome we were more interested to see the survey results to find out what your ave...

A building made from K-Tect’s foam and steel structural insulated pane
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A New High Performance Wall System Makes Inroads Into the Ottawa Construction Market

Brian Allemekinders and Deidre Yukich say that despite their new home being twice the size of their previous home, it consumes half the energy to operate. With...

Cellulose Environmentally Friendly Rigid Foam Insulation Panels
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Cellulose rigid foam board insulation - the environmentally-friendly styrofoam replacement?

Current rigid foam insulation panel choices It would probably not come as a surprise to many people to hear that fiberglass insulation and rigid foam boards ...

Tiny Houses for Sale, Plans, how to Build all here at EcoHome
Urban planning

Tiny Houses - The first official Tiny Home Eco Village in Canada gets approval in Okotoks

The First Tiny House strata in Canada is Officially approved in Okotoks Here at EcoHome we love Tiny Houses, which is probably why we have a full section dev...

Commuting

The Scrooser: eco cruising in style

Enter the Scrooser. The Scrooser is a German engineered electric scooter with a top speed of 24 km (15 mph) and a range of 35.5 km (22 miles). It works with an...

BC Energy Step Code - Building Sustainable Homes in Canada
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BC Leads the way in energy efficient housing and green job creation though the BC Energy Step Code

This step follows in the path of Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 initiative , which began in 2009, with the Greenest City Action Team masterminded & co-chaired ...

Carbon Emissions in the US reduced in 2019 - IEA Report Reveals
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Carbon emissions declined in US in 2019 - a glimmer of hope for climate change goals?

This week the International Energy Agency released its report on global CO2 emissions, which totaled 33 gigatons of carbon released globally in 2019 . And the ...

Tiny Houses now Legal in Washington State
Design

Tiny Houses - Washington State legalizes tiny homes & Eco-villages for Affordable Housing in WA

New WA State Legislation Paves the Way for Tiny Home Eco-Villages: Tiny houses, also colloquially referred to as tiny homes, are both an increasingly attract...

Trane Technologies Plans to Cut Product Carbon Emissions in Half by 2030
Energy efficiency

Trane Technologies Plans to Cut Product Carbon Emissions in Half by 2030

Cutting product emissions in half over the next decade supports Trane Technologies’ 2030 Sustainability Commitments, including its Gigaton Challenge to reduce ...