Sustainable

Sustainable designs beautiful, healthy, high-performance buildings that reduce carbon emissions and generate positive environmental change.

After two decades of green architectural practice, we understand the client's challenge: to see clearly through the fog of green technologies, products and philosophies. SUSTAINABLE.TO provides realistic, achievable and affordable resource and energy-efficient design /build solutions.

11/19/2020

Congratulations .ca on the launch of the new ! Inclusive, modern and pet-friendly, the transitional home is truly one of its kind.

Head to friendsofruby.ca to learn more! Check out the new ! The transitional home for LGBTQI2S youth is one of the first of its kind, custom-built with services tailored to youth. Visit .ca or friendsofruby.ca for more details!

Welcome to the new ! The state-of-the-art transitional home designed for LGBTQI2S youth is now open! .ca created a safe, welcoming, and pet-friendly environment for you and your fur friends to enjoy. Check out friendsofruby.ca to learn more and donate.

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04/30/2020

Today on the blog, we're sharing how passive house design can save you energy (and money). https://bit.ly/2YlRiCc

04/28/2020

To bounce back[wards], or to bounce forwards — to a clean, green future? 🌎

✍️💭 Paul Dowsett's latest article is now live on Medium: https://bit.ly/2KH63Ht

04/24/2020

‼️ Post COVID19: 210 Clean50 Leaders call for a for Canada.

📃 Read, download, and share their open letter to our Governments here: https://bit.ly/3aCFf5E

✊ How you can help ✊

• Write your own post, on LinkedIn, embedding the pdf version of the letter available here: https://bit.ly/3aCFf5E
• Simply share the existing LinkedIn post here: https://bit.ly/3eOEudf
• Send a private email to your MP: [email protected]
• Tweet a link to https://bit.ly/2KCsdul using hashtags and

Thanks for your time and participation in this impactful action! Please – KEEP IT GOING! You can absolutely make a difference, and it won’t cost you more than a few moments.

04/23/2020

🎙️ Podcast update! 🎙️

Paul Dowsett (Principal Architect, Sustainable) and the President of the carpenter’s union, Michael Yorke (President District Council of Ontario) discuss with Metta Spencer their preferred building materials to reduce carbon emissions and keep heat inside or outside the house, depending on the time of year.

Listen to the podcast here: https://bit.ly/2VwOwIp

04/21/2020

"In Toronto, we have a potential Grenfell just waiting to happen. On the periphery of our city, we have an aging stock of 1,000 residential towers (many built at the same time as Grenfell) where many of our essential service workers can just afford to live. Should disaster strike but one of these towers, will the surviving residents be relocated further away from the inconvenient transit upon which they depend upon today?"

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3cBImw7