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Read the rest of Efficient SIP Laneway House Pops Up in an Unused Urban Backyard in Vancouver

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Lanefab Design/Build recently completed the city of Vancouver’s first Net-Zero Solar Laneway House. The house, built as an infill on an existing residential lot, is 1020 square feet with 1 bedroom and 2 baths, and it will be the new home for the owners of the existing main house. The project was built using prefab structural insulated panels (SIPs), has 95% LED lighting, a 500 gallon in-ground rainwater tank, drainwater heat recovery, a heat recovery ventilator, an air source heat pump, and an array of 12 solar panels on the roof. The 18′ multi-fold doors create a wide open indoor-outdoor connection while providing passive solar heating.

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Read the rest of Green Roofed Vancouver Residence is the First LEED Platinum Home in Western Canada

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Read the rest of BIG Unveils Plans for Its New Twisting Residential Skyscraper in Vancouver

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Read the rest of Sea Salt Refinery Renovated Into A Historic Landmark & Event Building in Vancouver

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Read the rest of University of British Columbia’s CIRS Building is a Living Eco Laboratory in Vancouver

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Read the rest of Awesome Modular Public Lounge Takes Over Vancouver’s Parking Spaces

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Read the rest of Rent a Human at Surrey’s Green City Centre Library!

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Read the rest of South Vancouver’s Soaring Sunset Community Center Connects With Nature

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Read the rest of LEED Gold Langara Library Uses Wind Towers Instead of Traditional Heating and Cooling

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Read the rest of VanDusen Botanical Center to Be Canada’s First Living Building

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Read the rest of Floating Dining Room Sets Sail on 1,672 Bottle Raft in Vancouver

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With global soccer fever still high, here’s another amazing soccer stadium that boasts some remarkable green features. The recently completed Empire Field Stadium in Vancouver is made with 22,000 recycled tires, amounting to 346,000 pounds of crumb rubber! The stadium, which will host the BC Lions football team (American football) and the Vancouver Whitecaps Soccer team, utilizes the crumb rubber under the artificial turf, which provides a number of benefits for the players and the environment.

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Students at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ECUAD) designed these pieces of beautiful furniture for Far Coast Coffee’s (Coke’s coffee brand) social areas at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The furniture is made entirely out of blue pine wood in an attempt to raise awareness about the mountain pine beetle’s devastating effect on the pine industry.

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The 2010 Vancouver Olympics has yet another feather to add to their cap – they now have the greenest neighborhood in the world. Yesterday, Millennium Waters, the Olympic Athlete’s Village located on Southeast False Creek across from the BC Place Stadium, received LEED Platinum Certification for the entire neighborhood as well as LEED Gold status for all of the buildings included. Millennium Water is only the second neighborhood to receive LEED Platinum status, with the first being Dockside Green in Victoria, British Columbia. With super energy efficient residential units, close proximity to the city center, a renewable energy heating system and a net zero energy building, this village is sure make other eco-developments green with envy.

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Read the rest of LEED Platinum Vancouver Convention Center has Canada’s Largest Green Roof

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Today is opening day of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, which is being touted as the greenest Olympics ever. But the warm weather and rain of late at one of the venues has forced the organizers to haul in snow via truck and helicopter (because the Winter Olympics don’t really work without snow). Since trucks and helicopters emit a lot of carbon, critics and protesters are calling out the Vancouver Olympics for their somewhat hypocritical measures to save the 17 day event from total meltdown. So we have to ask – are the Olympics still green if they have to artificially boost the snow pack?

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