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

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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