Greenspace Cottages: A Truly Green Cottage Rental
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 03. 7.06
Where we live, much of the population either owns or rents summer cottages. They tend now to get bigger and more expensive and duplicate everything that a city house has and have few green aspects or redeeming benefits. Where postwar most working people could afford a place in the woods somewhere, it is now unaffordable for all but the very rich. Thus we were thrilled to learn about Greenspace- they are developing small, affordable rental cottages that are truly green. They sit lightly on the landscape on piers; they have straw bale walls and SIP ceilings; radiant floors; low VOC finishes and generated less than a single pickup truck worth of waste for the construction of the entire cottage. It is in a great spot too- close to the Haliburton Forest Reserve , great for water sports and if you are into rock, there are mines and railway cuts where we have been collecting samples for years- a meteor hit this part of Ontario a few million years ago and created geological wonders. We summer nearby and it can't be beat. ::Greenspace
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Just tenting there would disturb even less.
(typo in previous post)
That looks nice.
This is ridiculous. Next you've have a heated covered swimming pool.
Subscribing to and creating the same mess that you created where you escaped from. Con't change how you live, change where you live. And when the pollution and garbage build up, why you can just change where you live again.