mobEE Strawbale School Portables are a low impact breath of fresh air
A school portable made from straw bale offers the following benefits: energy efficiency, low maintenance and clean indoor air.
A Straw Bale Home Q&A with the Fourth Pig Sustainable Builders
About a month ago I posted an article written by Terrell Wong, an architect specializing in sustainable building and design, about a straw bale addition to a home she had designed. She was frustrated because the city of Toronto denied it even though the city had built...
Straw Bale Built Home Declined by Toronto But The City Built one in High Park
My friend, Architect Terrell Wong, a passive house and green building specialist, has been having quite the time with the City of Toronto, trying to get an addition to a home built with straw bale. She figured that since the city had built its own straw bale building...
Canada’s Greenest Home is Complete!
Chris Magwood, Executive Director of The Endeavour Centre sent me a note letting me know that Canada’s Greenest Home is now complete and up for sale. As he mentions in his blog post on the subject, being the greenest home is not a brag per se, as those people...
Straw Bale SIP Walls by NatureBuilt
In green building circles it is generally acknowledged that prefab or modular homes are more environmentally friendly than traditional stick built on site homes. Walls are constructed inside a warehouse so the materials aren’t exposed to the elements, which...
