Links

The Internet is a valuable resource in the home buying or selling process. Below is a list of resources on alternative housing and sustainable living from across BC, Canada and the World.

Housing

• CoHo BC
  Collective Housing Initiaive encourging real estate co-ownership in BC.
• Vancouver Collective Housing Network
• CoHousing Association
• Hive and Home
• REBGV
• Co-op Association

Government, Non-Profit and Industry

• City of Vancouver
  Green Building and renovation suggestions and resources.
• Lighthouse
  Light House is a not-for-profit company dedicated to advancing green building and the sustainable infrastructure and economic systems into which green buildings are intrinsically integrated.
• Smart Growth BC
• Canada Green Building Council
  Mission: Lead and accelerate the transformation to high-performing, healthy green buildings, homes and communities throughout Canada.
• Canadian Passive House Institute
  Canada’s Source for Passive House Training and Information
• Small Housing BC
  A public voice for small housing and advanced urbanism
• The Journal of Sustainable Real Estate
  The Journal of Sustainable Real Estate is produced by the University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate

Sustainability Blogs

• Velo Family Dairies
  Documenting a Vancouver family of 4 as they given up their car and choose to get around by bike and transit.
• Vancouver Observer Blog – Earth Matters
  Committed to great journalism that uncovers detailed facts on issues that matter.
• Chickens in North Vancouver
  A blog about keeping chickens in North Vancouver and beyond.
• Green the City Vancouver
  A blog about keeping chickens in North Vancouver and beyond.

Community Businesses and Organizations

• Fresh Roots Urban Farm
  Metro Vancouver Based Community-Engaged Neighbourhood Farming Project
• Home Harvest Farms
  Provides urban residents with a year-round method to produce their own food, manage their own food supply and ensure food safety
• Daily Eggs Backyard Hen-Houses
  A visual documentation of Vancouver’s journey towards our goal of becoming the World’s Greenest City by 2020

Visit Home Green Resources for more great links.

Religion & the Environment

Some of my favourite organizations from my past professional life.

• Teva Learning Alliance
  The great Teva Learning Center, North America’s Premier Jewish environmental organization. My family, my love and my employer for almost 6 years.
• Jewcology
  Your one stop shop for everything Jewish and environmental
• Hazon
  CSAs, bike rides, food curriculum… Check them out
• Adam Va-Adamah
  Canada’s first Jewish environmental organization founded in 1999 by a group including myself, this Vancouver based group is bringing environmental awareness and activism to the Jewish community of British Columbia
• A Rocha Canada – Christian’s in Conservation
  Transforming people and places into healthy communities, through a movement of individuals and groups caring for God’s world.