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Greenworks Building Supply
GreenWorks’ goal is to provide its customers in Vancouver and across Canada the best options for creating healthy, beautiful spaces – both inside and outside the home.
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Green Spec Guide
contains detailed listings for more than 2,000 environmentally preferable building products with descriptions, manufacturer information, and links to additional resources.
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GVRD Green Guide
The GreenGuide is a 208-page, highly graphical, 4.5”x9” pocket-sized guidebook, accompanied by a large-scale foldable map that allows users to locate projects easily. It documents and highlights key sustainability features of 111 projects, provides suggested tours, and tells our region’s sustainability story.
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Book: Homes that Heal
In easy-to-understand language, author Athena Thompson explains how our homes influence our health and what we can do about it. The reader is empowered with solutions that reduce the chemical load on all of us while helping create natural, ecologically sound living environments that nurture human health.
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Buildsmart
The Lower Mainland's resource for sustainable design and construction information. Developed by the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD), this innovative program encourages the use of green building strategies and technologies; supports green building efforts by offering tools and technical resources; and educates the building industry on sustainable design and building practices.
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SmartSteps
The SmartSteps Products and Services directory is designed to help businesses identify those products and services that have less impact on the environment. It features products and services that carry either a third party certification based on the life-cycle impacts of the product or service, or a self-declared environmental claim provided by the manufacturer, distributor or supplier.
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The Green Buildings Foundation
... was created to act as an information hub and an advocate for the promotion of environmental aspects of commercial building operations and management. The GBF is located in Vancouver, Canada and, as a charitable organization, will support or facilitate relevant educational initiatives, energy and environmental forums, and special research projects from the receipt of donations, grants and fundraising events.
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Light House Sustainable Building Centre
... is an enterprising non-profit society dedicated to advancing and catalyzing sustainability in British Columbia's built environment. We offer a range of free and fee-based programs and services out of our 1,300 square foot office, resource and display centre on Granville Island.
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The EcoSmart Foundation
... is a Federal non-profit Canadian corporation based in Vancouver, BC. We develop and manage activities and projects promoting technical solutions and innovations for a sustainable economy. EcoSmart manages a port-folio of projects such as the "EcoSmart Concrete" project, "The Sustainable Condo", "Sustainable Building Technology Cluster" and "Building Performance Evaluation".
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PVC-Free Building Material Alternatives
The Healthy Building Network is developing a series of tools to help you find PVC free building materials for your projects. These lists are by no means exhaustive or complete but will help you begin your search. |
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