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Tiny house with attached and mobile greenhouse - good or bad idea?

...home. It's always best to build your homes and greenhouses on solid ground, unless you're on the run from the law and need to be ready to flee in the middle of the night. With a tomato. If the owner of this clever building stumbles across this article – please understand I think your home is beautiful (as seen in the ...

Planning and Design

Find out what's trending in 2025 for green home construction

...homes. Prefab Passive House & LEED Kit Homes for Sale in Ontario & North Eastern US States on EcoHome Look for more and more prefab home manufacturers to hit the market every year, with better quality and competitive pricing. You can find local prefab home manufacturers in the Ecohome building directory which...

Lifestyle and environment

Resilient homes - why we need to build to withstand climate change events

...homes for climate change: Anticipating future climatic challenges and constructing resilient buildings to withstand them should be an important consideration when building any new home - but we're often told that "a Green Home costs more", and too many people then decide in the face of resistance from regular home bui...

Healthy indoor air quality

How to keep wildfire smoke out of homes with mechanical ventilation systems?

...homes in California wildfire zones. Now you know more about protecting air quality with home ventilation systems. Find all you need about indoor air quality in the Ecohome Green Building Guide, or see these pages: The importance of air quality in homes How to choose between a HRV and ERV ventilation system Ho...

Landscaping

Urban farming turns beautiful gardens into a grocery store!

...home Guides to Building a Greenhouse Here, and read about the grocery store green roof producing its own food in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Now that you know more about urban farming, find more pages about how to grow food at home in the Ecohome Green Building Guide and these pages here: More eco-friendly backy...

Air and vapour barriers

Airtight construction of homes is essential: "your house sucks." "Oh yeah? your house blows!"

...home We go on incessantly here about the importance of air barriers in home construction to reduce air leakage, but no matter how hard you worked to make a house airtight, if the pressure isn't balanced you will be sucking air in or forcing it out and, despite your efforts, making the inside environment all the more li...

Tiny house

Wikkelhouse: A tiny house made of cardboard

...homes See architect designed prefab tiny houses for sale Are shipping container tiny homes good or bad? Find prefab home builders and manufacturers near me Find more about green home construction in the Ecohome Green Building Guide or to learn more about the benefits of a free Ecohome Network Membership, see h...

Concrete and masonry

The definitive history of ICF blocks and ICF construction

...homes and buildings were constructed in North America around the same year of 1969, making it difficult to accurately say which was actually “the first ICF home” - as projects included: The first ICF home built using foam ICF blocks was probably constructed on Lakeshore Drive In Oakville, Ontario for Patrick “Bud” Kel...

Tiny house

Are Tiny Houses for sale locally a good choice for a first home?

...home Ontario clarifies building-code for permits for laneway homes & legal tiny houses in Toronto What are the laws in Washington State for tiny homes? Are shipping container tiny homes good or bad? Find more about green home construction in the Ecohome Green Building Guide or to learn more about the benefi...