I've lived in Toronto for over 20 years now. Every year goes by and I notice a line up in front of the Flatiron Building at the corners of Church, Wellington and Front Streets. And I think to myself - what's going on? Only to find out - too late - that the annual event known as Open Doors Toronto was taking place and I missed it again.
This year was different - a couple of weeks before the event there was an article in the Toronto Star outlining the different venues and finally - I took advantage and went to a couple of the buildings on tour.
This year my focus is on building a second storey onto my 1939 bungalow in East York. And we are looking for some "green" solutions to heating and electricity use. I discovered that there were several buildings in the Open Doors list that were "green" buildings - so we went to see 2 of them.
One of them was on Queen East where they were using a Geo Thermal system for heating.
For me the most interesting location was called the Ravina Project - 2 people have taken their home and made it into a science experiment to study how efficient some of the newest heating and hydro systems are.
Click on this link and go to page 12 of this the Green Guide to Open Doors
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