We visited an Earthship and stayed overnight as you see in this post: Earthship: A Most Radically Sustainable Home There are so many principles that are right for our times, including recycling things such as tiles and tires. My husband Mark and I have thought of building a similar home but also would like to […]

Zero Energy, Bermed Earth, Tile Bale Home
We visited an Earthship and stayed overnight as you see in this post: Earthship: A Most Radically Sustainable Home There are so many principles that are right for our times, including recycling things such as tiles and tires. My husband Mark and I have thought of building a similar home but also would like to […]

Building Better Homes: Whistler, BC
RDC Fine Homes, motto is that they Build Better Homes. They define this by saying they are quieter, have year round comfort, better indoor air quality through better ventilation and more energy efficient. RDC builds green homes in Whistler and we were fortunate to be toured through a new neighbourhood where they were building several […]

Wood Stove Water Heater Experiment – Surprising Results!
Greenhill Forge created an excellent water heater with a copper coil and a lot of creativity. Loved the ingenuity.

Building a Rocket Mass Heater
Here’s a video I found online talking about Rocket Mass Heaters. I visited local homeowners previously who built a similar unit and will post later, but and will post but enjoy this video for now. Stefano Creatini What Would You Do If the Power Went Out? Have you ever wondered how you’d keep your family […]

Seed Oils – Single most Processed Food on Planet
I have been using Cold pressed Olive Oil for years now and avoid any seed oils. Here’s why Fed A Lie follows Paul Saladino MD, Nina Teicholz PhD, Chris Knobbe MD and Bethany Hamilton as they expose the truth about seed oils, also known as vegetable oils, and their correlation to the recent rise in […]

Tomatoes that last but at what cost?
This is a big problem around the world. How do we grow enough food and make it affordable as well. Well big business has created varieties of vegetables that not only last longer they keep their shape when packed and shipped. The problem is that they have lost flavour as well as nutrients. They also […]

How to boil water with Induction
It’s me! Your ECO friend Terry… I rarely get in front of the camera, but I thought doing a video with my induction cookplate would be fun. It’s no secret that induction uses less energy than gas or straight electricity to a coil. In this video I explain induction and test a few methods of […]

The dirty dozen foods and clean fifteen
A few years ago, I had a runny nose – all of the time! I also had lost my sense of smell. I went to a doctor, and she gave me a prescription for Flonase, a steroid that is sprayed into the nose and that mostly stopped the nose from running. I came from a […]

Warning: The Truth About Splenda and Others Diet Sweeteners
I lost my mom to dementia a couple of years ago. Growing up, we ate what I now consider poorly. It wasn’t unusual to have Kraft Dinner, sweet cereals or other processed foods. She eventually got Diabetes, then Dementia. The really sad thing about her death was when she got sepsis, and they couldn’t operate […]

Your eco friend: where have I been?
It’s been several years since I wrote a post on this site, but interestingly, I still get a substantial number of views. While I haven’t updated much, I have kept this site active and free of ads and plan to continue this practice. I also wish to get active again and start a YouTube channel […]

Creating a Vertical Garden from Pallets
We live on a park with a hill and there is an ugly 7 foot tall concrete wall between our house and our neighbours. Last year I got a bunch of pots and some flowers for the wall. This year the project got a lot bigger! Mark and I built this garden wall recently […]

Solar Thermal Heating
Although the majority of the renovation was fixing and replacing, we had decided to install an insulated, attached, front drive, 3 car garage. As we had already decided to heat the home and garage area with solar thermal we were able to put the flexible polyethylene (PEX) into the flooring of the garage. The […]

Growing Tomatoes from a Slice
I was reading a post from Mother Earth News that said you can grow tomatoes from a slice. The post tells us that you can grow your tomato plants quicker and easier, following this easy-peasy tomato slice method. Little Things demonstrates just how easy it is to take a tomato that’s past its prime, slice it […]