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Transition Salt Spring Eco Home Directory

Learn about the unique features of Salt Spring Island’s many eco-homes. Browse stories from homeowners, discover suppliers, resources, and solutions to help you green up YOUR home + garden.

Eco Homes Directory

An Environmental Organization that’s Changing Our Future Outcome – The Conscious Planet Network on Gulf Islands Radio

LISTEN HERE! July 21, 2019 Gaianna Sophia interviews people who share inspirational stories of change, new technologies, consciousness pioneers, & people who are making a practical difference to our future.…
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Windsor Plywood on Neighbours Helping Neighbours

We had the pleasure of having a phone call with Mike Stefancsik, assistant manager and co-owner with Ken Marr of Windsor Plywood on Salt Spring Island. Windsor is a Presenting…
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Harris Kia on the Importance of Local Support

During this busy and beautiful summer month, we were fortunate to speak with Roy Berentsen, Sales Manager at Harris Kia in Nanaimo. We are grateful to have Harris Kia as…
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Dreaming, Designing & Building A Net Zero or Small Footprint Home with Green City Builders

The Eco Living and Home Tour is thrilled that Green City Builders sponsored the tour again this year, but this time as one of its Presenting Sponsors! We connected with…
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Green Building Projects? Slegg Can Support You

We are grateful that Slegg Building Materials is a Presenting Sponsor for the 2019 Eco Living and Home Tour! Slegg’s General Manager on Salt Spring, Curtiss Maude, and local Slegg…
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Renewable Energy in the Eco Living Landscape

The Eco Living and Home Tour is grateful to have Bearfoot Renewables as one of its Presenting Sponsors. We connected with owner Jeff Chamberland by phone to ask him some…
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Laser-Focussed on Electric Vehicles

One of the Presenting Sponsors of the 2019 Eco Living and Home Tour is Motorize ─ Your EV Store. Talking to owner Julian Sale is a great education! If you’re…
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Tiny Homes Info Night

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Eco Home Tour: What’s it all about?

Passionate owner-builders. Innovative designs. Lush, locavore landscapes. See all this and more at Transition Salt Spring’s biannual eco-living and home tour. This short film is a snapshot into this great…
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Half-moon passive solar perch

Passive solar house and organic farm. Owner design-build. The site The land is a reclaimed old rock quarry and the house is sited in a south-facing bowl overlooking a pond…
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High style container home

Four repurposed shipping containers provide a compact super-insulated hideaway overlooking the ocean. Heat pump and heat recovery ventilator (HRV). The site The site is ecologically sensitive and has a steep…
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Remodeled oceanfront home from 1920’s

Old house with various additions was completely remodeled in 2012 and now includes ductless heat pump, grid-tied PV system, rainwater catchment, both fenced and unfenced deer-proof permaculture gardens, and Salt…
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Salt Spring Island Tiny Homes: West coast craftsmanship, to scale

Made by Website-ssitinyhomes.com email-info@ssitinyhomes.com This Tiny House under construction will have all the comforts of home packed into a 10’x 19’ footprint. Tiny House Size affects a home’s affordability and its environmental footprint.…
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Green City Builders: Net-zero in action

New net-zero 600 sq. ft. super-insulated office, showroom and storage space designed for environmental sustainability, low maintenance and low operating costs. Located in Ganges village to reduce travel and related…
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Farm to Cafeteria: an excellent school garden project

Farm to Cafeteria project at Gulf Islands Secondary School. Greenhouse with hydroponics and aquaponics growing systems and Tilapia, rainwater collection, worm composting and composting systems, and garden. Objectives To provide…
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Sunnyside passive solar house

Owner-built small passive solar home with grid-tied PV system, heat pump, HRV and underground rainwater harvesting tanks for micro-drip garden irrigation. Design A passive solar design from a permaculture magazine and stock…
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The Glass Foundry: recycled glass art

The Glass Foundry uses super-efficient furnace design and recycled glass. Philosophy The Glass Foundry is all about recycling, responsible energy use, ecology and art. Owner Mark Laukner has redesigned the traditional glass furnace to…
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A subtropical hydroponic greenhouse

Unique 6,000 sq. ft. greenhouse with hyperadobe heat storage wall, high efficiency wood gasifier furnace and water storage cistern, experimental anaerobic digester, rainwater harvesting, commercial hydroponic lettuce production and subtropical…
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A Straw Bale Home crafted by hand

Off-grid straw bale home: Andrew & Adina 1350 sq. ft home; water catchment system, greywater systems, passive solar design, solar panels for electricity, solar hot water panels for radiant floor…
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Featured Green Contractors from the Eco Living and Home Tour

Biogas Digester Off-Grid Gas and Fertilizers, Kealan Gell info@offgridgas.org Builders Green City Builders, Sam FitzZaland 250-537-6296 www.greencitybuilders.ca Container homes Honomobo www.honomobo.com Electricians Bearfoot Renewables, Jeff Chamberland 250-538-7523 www.bearfootrenewables.ca Glass Furnace…
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Living the Green Dream with Windsor Plywood

Windsor Plywood is a proud sponsor of this year’s Transition Salt Spring Eco Living and Home Tour. Here are just some of the ways Windsor supports green building on the…
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B.E. Design Works

BE Design Works is an Interior Finishes Showroom with a wide range of products.  We are proud that a large portion of our products are highly rated green products and…
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Jane Squier’s Super-Efficient Greenhouse Saves Time and Energy

An interview with farmer Jane Squier by Dennis Lucarelli In her large greenhouse on Salt Spring Island Jane Squier grows subtropical fruit trees for herself and hydroponic ‘living lettuce’, basil…
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