Sustainability Build Week Round Up
What a week!
Sustainability Build Week was action-packed and included special build days at our Mission build site, an online webinar with an amazing panel of speakers and lots of in-store activities.
Build site volunteers started working on a cool mudroom bench project for our homes in Mission. We secured 30 pieces of beautiful reclaimed lumber from our partners at Heritage Lumber. This vintage wood was salvaged by Unbuilders from a 1960s house in Tsawwassen on English Bluff Road. After delivery to Mission, the volunteers planed it and future volunteer groups will round it, sand it and clear coat it to eventually build it into a functional and durable bench and coat rack.
Fully recycled, these benches will serve a lot of families donning running shoes and boots while getting ready for school and family activities. Backpacks and coats will hang from the rack, providing easy access for our families on the go.
Thank you to Vancity for sponsoring Sustainability Build Week. Be sure to check out Vancity’s Planet-Wise Teardown Financing program that can be used to employ contractors to deconstruct your building.
Circular Economy & Sustainability at Home Webinar
Thanks to everyone who signed up and attended our webinar and additional thanks to Tru Earth for providing our highly useful and sustainable door prize.
For those of you who missed the webinar you can catch the recording here or on our YouTube channel.
Upcycle Challenge!
Congratulations to @barefootwandererr who was the winner of our upcycle challenge with their amazing salvage and refurbishment of this toy truck.
If you want to learn more about the circular economy at home or at work, or to find out about what green building tips and practices we use on our build sites, check out our Sustainability Build Week blog posts below:
Circular Economy at Work
Saving Money and the Planet is a Win Win Win
Circular Economy at Home
Just because it’s the end of Sustainability Build Week doesn’t mean we forget about our responsibilities to the environment. We are continuing to make internal improvements and actions to reduce our own impact on the environment and we will share our goals and plans as they evolve.
Lastly don’t forget when you shop at our ReStores or Online you are helping to keep valuable materials out of landfill and giving them a new and extended life.
Thank you for helping to protect our planet.