Agriculture grows up?
There’s only so much arable land on this Earth to go around and since we’ve plowed under, asphalted over or otherwise spoiled a lot of it, it can’t hurt to […]
Category Archives: Green buildings
Come for the crocs, stay for the sustainability
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is home to Claude, an albino crocodile who greets you within moments of stepping inside. Now, Claude (and the various other fish, […]
Rethinking the role of buildings
This paper was originally published in 2010 as part of the Ontario Architects Association continuing education series. Researched and written by Sharon Boddy, with input from Doug Pollard, Woytek Kujawski and Fanis Grammenos […]
Heating things up in Okotoks, Alberta
Imagine being able to store a summer’s worth of heat for use in a cold Prairie winter.That’s exactly what they do in Drake Landing, a 52-home solar thermal development in Okotoks, Alberta, […]
Klosterenga: Oslo, Norway
Excerpted from a case study written by Sharon Boddy for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Klosterenga, a 35-unit residential apartment building located in Oslo, Norway, shows how well-thought-out building design coupled with a wide […]
Malmö’s green urban developments
BO01 = “Bo” means living in Swedish; 01 was the construction year (2001). From design to full development, BO01 in Malmö, Sweden is a model of sustainability. The site, originally a landfill […]
