Canadian Architect: Who should be our climate change Prime Minister?

Sheena wrote an article this month about the Canadian Election and Climate Change for Canadian Architect magazine. See this months Canadian Architect magazine, or check out the article online at “Who should be our climate change Prime Minister?” “Our current Prime Minister is our COVID Prime Minister. The next Prime Minister will be our climate …

Mariposa House Hospice Construction Updates

We have been visiting the Mariposa House Hospice over these last few months as construction progresses, and wanted to share a few of the pictures as it near completion. While COVID did create some delays and difficulties for the team, everyone has pulled together to realize this very important project. A hospice is almost like …

City of Toronto’s first Net-zero Childcare Facility – Mount Dennis Childcare Centre

Coolearth Architecture, in joint venture with CS&P Architecture is working on an innovative Net Zero Energy childcare facility for the City of Toronto. It is to be located at 1234 Weston Road, within the Mount Dennis area, at the corner of Weston Road and Glenvalley Drive. The building is designed to be Net Zero Energy …

Coolearth Interviewed on Net-zero Design

The Coolearth Architectures team was interviewed by Host Craig Riddock, of “Shut Off That Noise”, about net-zero carbon architecture a design. “Shut Off That Noise” is a series of interviews about makers of art, music, design and architecture about the nature of their work and their creative process.   “In this episode, Craig interviews Architect …

Green Ontario Fund – Rebates Available

  The Ontario Cap and Trade Carbon program is up and running and almost $500-million is being invested in rebates for energy efficiency upgrades for Ontario homeowners. In this blog post we will give a quick overview to people in Ontario looking to perform Energy Retro-fits and improve energy efficiency and comfort.  With rising electricity …

Building Show 2017 Follow-up: Net-zero Retrofit

Thank you to everyone who made it out to the Seminar Sheena Sharp gave on Thursday, November 30th, entitled: Net-Zero Upgrade to an Existing Semi-Detached House – Construction Follow-up. There were many more architects in attendance this year’s talk.  This is good news, as it shows that the discussion of sustainability is reaching further into …