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Solutions
GreenPlan is honoured to be featured in Solutions, a sustainability guide with 58 solutions for lighter and happier living. This publication, produced by the registered non-profit Creatively United for the Planet Society, is available free-of-charge online and can be...
Cedar Open House 2019
Thank you to the more than 60 people who attended our recent open house at the Cedar Community Hall with speakers Jack Anderson of Greenplan.ca, Chad Thiessen of FuturesForward.org, and featuring display tables by area...
October 2019 Open House
Thank you to the more than 60 people who attended our recent open house at the Cedar Community Hall. The energy and excitement in the room was palpable. The evening included networking and displays, presentations, Q&A, and a community brainstorming session. The...
Nanaimo to Showcase First Sustainable Green Neighbourhood
Imagine the neighbourhood of your dreams. What does it look like? Feel like? What if your dream neighbourhood was considered one of the most ecologically friendly, livable, cost effective, friendly, happy, healthy and resilient communities in the world and set an...
Vancouver Island’s First Model Sustainable Neighbourhood
The southernmost Electoral Area of the Regional District of Nanaimo, (Area A) adopted an Official Community Plan in 2011 that included the designation of an 8.5 acre parcel in Cedar for a ‘model sustainable neighbourhood’. Greenplan led efforts to create this...
Optimistic and Hopeful
I have been wandering around in the field of green design and sustainable planning for four decades, and have picked up a few insights along the way. These insights have pointed me towards an area of interest that confirms...
Creating Resilient Green Built Neighbourhoods
I'm looking forward to speaking in Victoria on Earth Day, April 22nd, and sharing my knowledge of green building and planning so that we can move towards a more resilient future capable of dealing with climate change. We have the potential to make this island a...
Port Alberni Transition Town Society
Feature speaker sharing insights into the impacts of climate change on Island communities and the potential of new green technologies to allow us to proceed with autonomous homes and sustainable and resilient green...
Islands Agricultural Show by the Vancouver Island Agricultural Show Society
Feature speaker at the annual Island Agricultural Fair offering insights into the Just BioFiber building technology and its potential contributions to carbon negative construction and how Island farmers could support this movement with opportunities to grow industrial...
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