Back by popular demand, Salt Spring’s Eco-Living and Home Tour returns Sunday, Aug.7.
Press material explains that in addition to showcasing innovative island homes, the tour includes ecological lifestyles, along with appropriate technologies that support eco-friendly living.
“The tour includes some of Salt Spring’s best examples of green building, energy efficiency, water conservation, food production and renewable energy,” the release states.
This year’s focus is on smaller homes and retrofits. Alan Martin will show off a beautiful, fully functioning 126-square-foot mobile home built following the plans available at Tumbleweed Tiny Houses.
Dr. John Christian will show his new compact 800-square-foot earth-sheltered studio/office with living roof and gardens.
Steve Abbott, an overseas consultant with major aid organizations, will guide people through the energy-saving features he has retrofitted into his house and show how to make a stand-alone foot-powered washbasin and a simple air-to-air heat exchanger.
Natural building pioneer Robert Laporte and architect Paula Baker-Laporte, authors of EcoNest and Prescriptions for a Healthy House, will show how to make walls of wood chips, straw and clay and other features of their EcoNest design.
Andrew Haigh will show his off-the-grid hemp bale house and teach how easy it is to make earthen plaster.
Marsh Heinekey, former BCIT Living Roof program director, will give a demonstration of living-roof technologies. Gardening and permaculture experts will share information in their organic food gardens — and much more.
This year only houses in the northern half of the island are being showcased to reduce the tour’s carbon footprint.
Patrons of the tour are encouraged to bike, bus and carpool. Carpoolers can meet on the deck between TJ Beans and Salt Spring Books between 9 and 10 a.m. to carpool with others.
Tickets are on sale now at Salt Spring Books with an early bird price of $25 until July 31. Full price tickets are $30.
The 2011 event is an initiative of the Salt Spring Community Energy Strategy and is sponsored by the Earth Festival Society, Transition Salt Spring, I-SEA, Salt Spring Books, Windsor Plywood, Uptown Pharmasave and Elements Home Design.
For more information, visit saltspringenergystrategy
Press material explains that in addition to showcasing innovative island homes, the tour includes ecological lifestyles, along with appropriate technologies that support eco-friendly living.
“The tour includes some of Salt Spring’s best examples of green building, energy efficiency, water conservation, food production and renewable energy,” the release states.
This year’s focus is on smaller homes and retrofits. Alan Martin will show off a beautiful, fully functioning 126-square-foot mobile home built following the plans available at Tumbleweed Tiny Houses.
Dr. John Christian will show his new compact 800-square-foot earth-sheltered studio/office with living roof and gardens.
Steve Abbott, an overseas consultant with major aid organizations, will guide people through the energy-saving features he has retrofitted into his house and show how to make a stand-alone foot-powered washbasin and a simple air-to-air heat exchanger.
Natural building pioneer Robert Laporte and architect Paula Baker-Laporte, authors of EcoNest and Prescriptions for a Healthy House, will show how to make walls of wood chips, straw and clay and other features of their EcoNest design.Andrew Haigh will show his off-the-grid hemp bale house and teach how easy it is to make earthen plaster.
Marsh Heinekey, former BCIT Living Roof program director, will give a demonstration of living-roof technologies. Gardening and permaculture experts will share information in their organic food gardens — and much more.
This year only houses in the northern half of the island are being showcased to reduce the tour’s carbon footprint.
Patrons of the tour are encouraged to bike, bus and carpool. Carpoolers can meet on the deck between TJ Beans and Salt Spring Books between 9 and 10 a.m. to carpool with others.
Tickets are on sale now at Salt Spring Books with an early bird price of $25 until July 31. Full price tickets are $30.
The 2011 event is an initiative of the Salt Spring Community Energy Strategy and is sponsored by the Earth Festival Society, Transition Salt Spring, I-SEA, Salt Spring Books, Windsor Plywood, Uptown Pharmasave and Elements Home Design.
For more information, visit saltspringenergystrategy
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