Tag: energy efficient
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Taking an Active Role in Energy Efficiency with Passive House
Are you interested in a more sustainable way of living on the planet? Have you heard of Passive House? Treehouse Village Ecohousing hosted a webinar on April 18 to share why we’re building our 30 homes to the energy-efficient standards of Passive House. Treehouse Village is a multi-age cohousing community now in development on 15 acres of land in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. We’re dedicated to reducing our environmental footprint, and one way we’ll do that is by ensuring our homes are built to the high standards of the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS). Hosted by Treehouse Villager Emma Savage, this…
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Treehouse Village’s First “Next Gen Housing” Webinar: A Home That Reflects Your Values
Treehouse Village Ecohousing is building an intentional, multigenerational community that lives lightly on the Earth, shares resources, and creates a wonderful place to raise our kids.
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What Does PHIUS Certification Mean to Treehouse Village Ecohousing?
We want to reduce our environmental footprint, and one of the ways we will be doing that is by building our homes to a very high standard of energy efficiency.
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Returning to Nova Scotia
I’ve lived a lot of places in my adult life. I confess that I was born in the US, so most of the places I lived were there, but I moved to Nova Scotia in 2006 and very quickly felt more at home than I had felt in any of the five states I had lived in over a period of 20-odd years. Why? One reason is that having school-age children helps one integrate into a community in any locale. But I’d had school-age children in the previous ten years living in Minnesota, and I never felt as much a…