Ontario’s building sector produces 21 percent of the province’s greenhouse gases, making it the third largest contributor, next to transportation and industry. Clearly, much needs to be done to reduce this sector’s environmental impact. Happily, in our experience, much can be done to do so, without adding that much more to a project’s budget. In […]
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It may seem odd for home renovators to arrive at a job site on bike. Heavy duty pick-up trucks are often associated with renovation firms. Not Greening Homes. Since our inception, we’ve made environmentally-friendly transportation one of our core pillars. During Toronto Bike Month (May 28 – June 30), Greening Homes’ President, Chris Phillips offers […]
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It seems that Toronto’s Bike Month is on a roll. Launching this week and running throughout June, Bike Month will likely attract more people as a result of more bike lanes that have popped up in the city in recent years. It may surprise you to learn that Bike Month is an initiative of the […]
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At Greening Homes we wanted to reduce the time it took for construction managers to deliver important documents from the renovation site to the office – particularly sites located in the city’s north and east end. The documents needed to be delivered but we also wanted to optimize our managers’ time. Happily we discovered A-Way […]
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Greening Homes’ full house renovation in Rosedale is featured in a six-page spread in Homes and Cottages’ April 2016 issue. Entitled, Second time around, the article focuses on why building with green materials was top priority for the homeowners. In the article, writer Connie Adair touches on some of our core pillars, including smart transportation […]
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One of our core pillars is smart transportation to and from the job site. Rather than fill up the streets with trucks, our crew walk from the nearest TTC stop or lock up their bicycles. Managers drive an electric smart car to travel from site to site. So deciding to participate in Pollution Probe’s Healthy […]
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Celebrating success is – well it’s awesome. Advancing our understanding to improve our practice, particularly when it comes to healthy buildings, is priceless. It’s why we went to Vancouver in June. We were there for the National Conference of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). CaGBC, along with SAB Magazine, presented us with the Canadian […]
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We’re incredibly excited to share the news of our first company car, a fully electric SMART two-seater run on 100% renewable energy from Bullfrog Power. We think the design with our logo looks pretty smart, too (kudos to Connor, who designed the wrap in-house)! Part of our founding mandate as an alternative builder is to try […]
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