GreenSudbury

An Earthship is a radically sustainable home made of recycled materials

The students devised and installed new insulation (including straw bales underneath the floor), solar photovoltaic panels, replacement windows and door, LED lights and a wood pellet stove for heating.

City councillors, including as Ward 8 Coun. Ted Callaghan, argued for and won a vote on boosting the redeveloped Grace Hartman amphitheatre seating from 1,750 seats to 1,950 hard and grass seating spaces. They also agreed to do preliminary work for a future roof over spectators.

At the St. Marys Cement plant in southwestern Ontario, Pond Biofuels has become the first to successfully use carbon dioxide emitted from a major industrial source to produce high value biomass from microalgae

A derelict area beneath a series of overpasses in the West Don Lands is going to be transformed into an urban jewel. Today Waterfront Toronto unveiled plans for Underpass Park, the most extensive park to ever be built under an overpass in Canada, and the first in Toronto.

A Sudbury-area firm was chosen for a demolition project that marks the start of work on a new Canadian customs plaza at International Bridge.Nine commercial and residential buildings on Queen Street West, between Hudson and George streets, will be razed beginning later this month. Work will take five weeks.

Hombs are built from 100 square-foot triangular modules, which, like a honeycomb, can be infinitely configured, expanded, and arranged. The modules are built with green and healthy materials and Homb will target the design to LEED Platinum certification.

Born out of utter necessity and invention, here is one of Canada’s humblest design creations

The bank with the emerald shield announced Thursday it is going carbon neutral by building more energy-efficient buildings, including a new green prototype that will feature a solar drive-through canopy that will generate electricity for the branch.

We have built a zero carbon house on Britain’s most northerly island of Unst, which will bring obvious benefits to the environment.

t is time for the city to wake up. The silos and water towers are decrepid eyesores. If the city feels like it has too much money and wants to throw some away, they should concider painting these structures.

a tree-trunk garden house, a log house study in hilversum, netherlands for dutch musical performer hans liberg, designed by piet hein eek.

Photographer Noah Sheldon got in touch the other week with a beautiful series of photos documenting the decrepit state of Biosphere 2, a semi-derelict bio-architectural experiment in the Arizona desert.