Ontario Straw Bale Building Coalition

OntarioGreenSpec.ca presents…
Home Sweet Home Competition

Calling all green housing leaders, builders, designers, and suppliers;
if you’re helping to green Ontario’ s housing sector, then we want to
hear from you! We’re looking to award four shining examples of
low-rise projects that were built or renovated in either 2009 or 2010.

Enter Now! The Home Sweet [Continue reading...]

The City of Toronto has an open request for proposals for design-build of a straw bale children’s teaching kitchen building in High Park.

There is a mandatory site meeting on-site at 10:00 AM, April 9 2010. Proposals are then due [Continue reading...]

The much-awaited return of the straw bale building registry is back, having been upgraded from regular web pages to a completely new database-driven system based on a customized version of Open-Realty. Have a look at the new dedicated web site Straw Bale Buildings of [Continue reading...]

Home Sweet Home
Competition Founding Awards

Join OntarioGreenSpec.cain kicking off our new Ontario-wide green building challenge — the Home Sweet Home Competition!

Witness history being made as four of Ontario’s building leaders are recognized for creating healthy, affordable, energy-efficient homes in the following categories: Production (builder-initiated); Custom (owner-initiated); Affordable (social [Continue reading...]

This year’s AGM date has been set for Sunday, March 28. We are really hoping that you will be able to come out, renew your membership, and have a voice in the direction of the OSBBC. The AGM will be hosted this year at the new Camp Kawartha Environment Centre just north of Peterborough, built by last year’s Sir Sandford [Continue reading...]