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Ideas combine in ‘green’ house – Guelph Mercury
By Hilary Stead Two Guelph entrepreneurs are combining centuries-old ideas with space-age technology to create a home that takes the concept of healthy, energy-efficient living to a new level. Billed
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Harrowsmith Country Life presents the House that Thinks, Drinks and Breathes – Harrowsmith Country Life
The escalating trend toward greener living culminates this spring at the National Home Show with a fully constructed house that Thinks, Drinks and Breathes™, presented by Harrowsmith Country Life. A
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Sustainable Living Comes to the National Home Show – Harrowsmith Country Life
By Staff Writer Sustainable housing is an idea whose time has come. If you read this magazine regularly, you already know that, but to most people, it’s still a novel
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Home is energy-efficient, by the bale – Ottawa Citizen
By Jennifer Campbell Straw-bale construction and radiant heating create a comfortable family home in Kanata. You can’t help noticing the warm, comfortable feeling that envelopes you as soon as you
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Concern for environment leads woman to build unique home – The Sun Times
By Shawn Giilk Sun Times correspondent Donna Dilschneider is building a house that will laugh at any fairy-tale wolf’s best efforts to blow it down. Constructed primarily from straw, her
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Farmer Grows Own House – Ottawa Citizen
By Jennifer Campbell Building a straw bale home seemed a wise choice for John Wise, an organic farmer from Centreville, near Napanee. He discovered the concept of straw bale home
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The Big Bad Wolf wouldn’t stand a chance against a home built of bales – Fall Home Show 2001 Press Release
Straw bale construction is not only environmentally friendly, it offers two to three times greater insulation value than conventional construction, it’s more fire resistant and it’s affordable, as the bales
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Growing Home – Ottawa Citizen
By Wayne Kierbert There is a photograph in the front of Ben Policy’s album that shows him crouched down, peering at a field of wheat. Beside it, the inscription says
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Harvesting Details about Building with Straw Bales – Toronto Star
By Randy Ray One of my dreams is to build or live in a home that’s different from those found in most Canadian subdivisions — something unlike the three- and