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

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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