Sustainability
Dockside Green - Phase 1 Synergy
Global News - Wednesday, March 14, 2012
By Peter Meiszner
Retrofitting buildings to increase natural light and fresh air can improve students' grades, increase retail sales, and speed healing of hospital patients.
Panelists on eco-friendly cities at the Globe 2012 conference in Vancouver say studies have proven the way buildings are designed has a big impact on the people who use them.
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Posted in Sustainability, Media Articles on March 16, 2012| Tags Eco-friendly, students, retrofit, retail, Globe 2012
Corix Utilities operator, Terry Balak, stands in front of Canada's first Nexterra gasification system located at Dockside Green Energy Biomass Facility in Victoria.
The Globe and Mail - November 22, 2011
By David Ebner
Several times a week, a truck rolls up to a non-descript sheet metal-clad industrial building on Victoria’s upper harbour. The trucks dump loads of small chunks of wood, waste that has been reclaimed from construction sites in the region and acquired from a nearby recycling facility.
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Posted in Sustainability, Media Articles on November 23, 2011| Tags renewable energy, biomass, corix, nexterra, district energy, fossil fuel
October 10, 2011 by Emma Stratford
Opportunity Green
The earth, like a teenager, is mostly covered in oil, grease and noxious pustules. Occassionally though, you can see a small sign of hope for the future in a clean, vigorous area, glowing with health. In the teenager it's generally where the acne medication has taken hold, but on the Earth it's those places where eco-friendly attitudes, words and thoughts have been put into practice.
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Posted in Sustainability on October 11, 2011| Tags leed, Bear Creek Dome, climate, Dockside Green, Eco Label, Eco-friendly, ecosystem, Energy efficiency, Geodesic domes, Gyreum Eco Lodge, Iceland, International Renewable Energy Agency, Masdar City, renewable energy, Sustainability, Tripbase Travel
October 4, 2011
Stepping down as chair of the World Green Building Council Tony Arnel said he had seen a fringe green movement become a mainstream industry during his three year term. He is replaced by Rick Fedrizzi, president and chief executive officer of the US Green Building Council.
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Posted in Sustainability, Media Articles on October 06, 2011| Tags USGBC, WGBC, Fedrizzi
Victoria, BC, Canada – Dockside Green, a mixed-use residential and commercial real estate development in Victoria, British Columbia has received its second residential LEED Platinum ranking through the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) – this time for the two towers known as Balance.
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Posted in Sustainability, Press Releases on February 24, 2011