Transition Salt Spring Eco Living & Home Tour

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Looking forward to a tour of Salt Spring Island’s most innovative green homes, farms and gardens!

The bi-ennial Eco Living and Home Tour is an inspiring self-guided tour on Salt Spring. Get inspired by innovative examples of eco-building, renewable energy technology, tiny homes, and sustainable living.

Not limited to homes, the Eco-Living and Home Tour includes food gardens, edible landscapes, and planet-friendly ways of living that are taking root on Salt Spring, Canada’s premier EV location and a leading renewable energy destination.

Talk with homeowners,  contractors, and innovators to learn about practical tools to build, refit or modify your home and garden for a smaller footprint and for a more ecological community!

The 2019 tour features 14 “new-to-the-tour” sites. Follow our Facebook page to get all of this year’s teasers!

Consider carpooling with others: join the Salt Spring Carpool and Rideshare group on Facebook to coordinate with others!

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Eco Home News

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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