Oooh! Love the sorghum plywood. And the kirei board from here. Amazing what you can find when you start looking.
The next step will be to try and find local distributors. Just wanted to share as I havn’t seen much of these sorts of products to date.
Here are a few resources for living green in Ottawa
Ottawa Green Living Guide
Bryson’s Farms organic produce
Eco products home delivery service
Listings for local produce, farmer’s markets, CSAs
Building materials and architectural salvage
Misc green products (personal care, home and garden, books, games, hardware): best value rain barrel in Ottawa
Garden tools, hardware, wood-working: stainless steel compost pail is a [...]
My mom and I went to the home show yesterday and generally not too impressed with paying $11 for the privilege of being targeted by ‘as seen on tv’ sales people. There were a few exhibitors that interested us, that we perhaps would not necessarily have come across.
One of these was Think Glass Countertops distributed [...]
Not that I think urban sprawl is sustainable, and expanding large housing developments outside of Ottawa’s greenbelt is proceeding unabated, the Minto Inspiration Eco-home does nonetheless provide a demonstration of several worthwhile greenbuilding elements.
Another case study. I should probably start amalgamating this list…
I started researching countertops a few weeks ago when the notion of striving to build a 100% locally sourced (radius yet to be established 100 to 500 mile seem to be common limiters modified by type of transport) building came up. It was disheartening to learn how limited options are for sustainable materials, recycled content, [...]
Sustainable House – shares many similar goals
There is lots to learn about if you want to take ownership of a building project. OK – that’s an understatement. I started compiling a list of topics that I wanted to cover as a means of summarizing my thoughts on aspects of the design, the idea being to aid with the final selection of [...]
The children are napping and I’ve got a coffee and some very delish chocolate dipped biscuits on hand – had a craving for digestives and found this recipe the other day – so I thought I’d browse the series of tunnels and tubes to see what I could find on the subject of ‘Green Building’.
Here [...]
Now this sort of thing is what I’d like to see developed for the residential building sector.
While I havn’t looked that hard yet, I know that there are stats that estimate energy use by residential housing and I feel that Canadians can make a big impact by adopting green building practices when it comes to [...]