Retrofit

In one of my past blog posts, Investing Like An Ecosystem, I wrote about strategies that promote resilience and anti-fragility. One of the key areas of investment involved asking yourself one [...]

Join us for a beautiful and info-packed video tour of our permaculture homestead! This is a 3-part series where we explain and explore our: – thriving food forest complete with fruit trees, [...]

This summer we installed our last major rainwater harvesting feature on our property.  This rain tank is unique because it is integrated into our hardscape (patio) so it’s completely [...]

For the last four years, I have been dreaming of retrofitting a small town with a group of like-minded individuals with a diverse set of skills. I talk a lot about this in my courses, and it [...]

Recently, I was in Invermere again and I visited a friend’s house with a unique take on solar air heating. He has coined his invention the Solar Coffin. This device heats air up to well [...]

Today I had the privilege of interviewing Rene Michalak who has started an innovative project called The MEGGA WATT project which is an acronym for The Micro-Energy Generating Garage Assembly [...]

After receiving rave reviews from our Edmonton friends we have decided to share our FREE presentation on how we are transforming our little Calgary urban lot into an eco-paradise!   [tab [...]

We have had the solar thermal system installed now for almost six months and it has performed flawlessly. Moreover our gas bills have never been so low, in fact most months we are paying more in [...]

Over the past few years, our goal has been to slowly retrofit our 25 year old house into a little urban permaculture homestead. Most recently, we brought in Simple Solar to install a solar hot [...]

For the last three years we have been working hard to convert our Calgary inner city home into a thriving permaculture project complete with a front yard food forest, water-harvesting features, [...]

I'm not sure why it took us so long, but we finally have installed our new composting toilet - which cost us $25 to build. All we are missing is some sawdust, which I plan to pick up this week-end.

2011 has been an exciting year of observing and interacting with the ecosystem that surrounds our urban home. There have been many successes, and many great learnings! Here is a slideshow that is [...]

(This article on composting toilets was written by our friend, co-conspirator and travel buddy, Lindsay Dailey) In a world where less than 1% of the planet’s fresh water is available for human [...]