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Eco-chic - Greening the Cities of Tomorrow
June 11, 2008 - CNN.com
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Eco Overhaul
June 7, 2008 - Ottawa Citizen
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Lawyer Gets First Dockside Office Lease
June 6, 2008 - Victoria Times Colonist
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LEEDing the Way to Greener Buildings
May 21, 2008 - Victoria Times Colonist
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Green Lifestyle Starts at Home
May 11, 2008 - Edmonton Journal
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Dockside Decidedly Green
April 23, 2008 - Victoria Times Colonist
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Greenprint for the Homes of the Future
April 22, 2008 - The Globe and Mail, National
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Dockside Green Strives For LEED® Platinum Certification
April 21, 2008 - Journal of Commerce
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Imagine a Green GriffinTown
April 19, 2008 - Montreal Gazette
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Green Good For Business, Say Developers
April 21, 2008 - Calgary Herald
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A Green Dream Takes Shape
March 2008 - Victoria Times Colonist
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Real Estate Development - Going Green & Sustainable
February 2008 - Plan Image
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Ecotopias Aren't Just For Hippies Anymore - and They're Sprouting Up Worldwide
January 18, 2008 - WIRED Magazine
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Biomass Gasification Anchors Dockside Green
January 2008 - Municipal World
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2007 Sustainability Report
Sustainability Report 2007 (4 MB)
A Healing Shade of Green
December 2007 - Elemente Magazine
Between the Johnson Street and Bay Street bridges, along the Tyee Corridor and west shore of Victoria’s inner harbour, a renaissance is happening. It’s happening all because of a new development called Dockside Green.
Building Toward a Greener Province
November 20th, 2007 - The Globe & Mail
Dockside Green is taking the lead with a sewage-treatment plant, heat recovery systems and low-flow toilets Joe Van Belleghem, a reformed developer, really couldn't be more enthusiastic about the proposed greening of B.C.'s building code.
Victoria Project Honoured as “Brilliant Development”
September 29th, 2007 – Times Colonist
Dockside Green has been honoured with an international prize recognizing its ecological leadership.
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Green Light - Why Three Point Wants in on Dockside Green
September 16th, 2007 - Business Examiner
The face of development got a little greener with Three Point Properties' purchase of almost all interest in the Dockside Green development. The $600-million, 1,000-unit "green project" is now in the hands of one of the Island's largest developers, a move both parties to the deal call a massive "win-win."
The Sustainable Suite
October 2007 – Canada’s Style at Home
Victoria’s harbourfront is in the midst of a makeover, and it’s looking green. The 15-acre Dockside Green development – the biggest in the city’s history – is poised to snag the honour of being the first greenhouse gas-neutral development in North America, with sights set on LEED® Platinum Certification.
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Three Point Buys Substantial Interest in Dockside Green
September 5th, 2007 – Times Colonist
In a move expected to further the cause of sustainable development both on Vancouver Island and further afield, Victoria's Three-Point Properties has acquired a large interest in the Dockside Green development.
Green Builder to Discuss his Project
September 5th, 2007 – The Bellingham Herald
Joe Van Belleghem believes that environmentally sustainable practices are not a cost of doing business, but can create other economic opportunities. He’s trying to prove that with a major project in Victoria, B.C.
New Era for Dockside Green
September 4th, 2007 - Local developers partner to make Vancouver Island a world leader in sustainable communities.
Joe Van Belleghem, partner of Dockside Green and Jack Julseth, co-founder of Three Point Properties, announced today that Three Point Properties has acquired an interest in the Dockside Green development.
Victoria-made device to keep an eye on energy, heat, water use
August, 2007 – Times Colonist
Dockside Green residents, who start moving into their homes next spring, will be able to track and change their energy, heat and water use as well as their carbon footprint, thanks to the installation of a Victoria-made monitoring device.
The Village Green
August, 2007 - Western Living Magazine
Green Harbour: Victoria, BC
As a chartered accountant, Joe Van Belleghem knows about cash flow. As a partner in Windmill, the developer behind Victoria’s Dockside Green, he knows how to put his money where his mouth is.
Business Student Goes Green with Dockside Green
July, 2007 – University of Victoria Co-operative Education Program
After two work terms with the Windmill Development Group, David Jawl says he’s no longer “green” about the green building industry.
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Green Credentials Take Centre Stage
July 13th, 2007 – Globe & Mail
Developer Joe Van Belleghem has lofty goals for his Dockside Green project, aiming for it to become the first LEED® Platinum community in the world.
Businesses are committing to ‘get greener’ at Dockside Green
Business Vancouver Island – July 2007
For the developers of Dockside Green, creating one of the world’s most sustainable communities means more than following the highest environmental standards.
Movers & Shakers - Iconic
Business Examiner – July 2 – 15, 2007
Dockside Green has become something of an institution before even being built…
Wood Chips to Heat Dockside
July/August, 2007 – Douglas Magazine
When they turn up the thermostat or jump in the shower, future residents of the environmentally friendly condos at Victoria’s Dockside Green might not immediately think of suburban Langford and its mayor, Stew Young. But they should.
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Coffee Shop Planned for Dockside Green
June 23rd, 2007 – Times Colonist
The building is only on paper, but already Ryan Taylor is committed to opening a coffee shop at Dockside Green.
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2007
Dockside Green Featured on TV
June 13th, 2007 – Times Colonist
It's a construction site right now, but the $600-million Dockside Green development represents such a change in construction practices that it is part of a TV show being aired Sunday.
Builder Strikes Balance at Dockside
May 18th, 2007 – Times Colonist
It may not always be easy being green, but the developers at Dockside Green’s newest project, the appropriately named Balance, are achieving just that – with style, substance and cost-effective environmental strategies.
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Totem Project Begins
May 12th, 2007 – Times Colonist
Coast Salish and Tsartlip Nation master carver Charles Elliott selected a cedar log that he will carve into a totem pole that will become the first piece of public art for the Dockside Green community…”
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Build Green
June 17th at 7:00pm – The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
On June 17th at 7:00pm on CBC Television, David Suzuki is going even greener. In “Build Green”, a brand new show in THE NATURE OF THINGS series, Suzuki sets out across Canada to discover the latest techniques for building green.
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Calgarians Looking for West Coast Deal
April 28th, 2007 – Calgary Herald
When Calgarians experience the weather they’ve been getting recently, Victoria is looking better and better every day.
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Green Grass of Vic
April 28th, 2007 – Calgary Herald
They rolled out the green carpet – and it was just the right colour after living in the dull, white wilderness of Calgary for so many months.
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The Village Green
April 2007 – EnRoute Magazine
Victoria, meanwhile is practically living in the future. This August, people will move into sharp-looking condos in Dockside Green, a one-time industrial wasteland.
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Dockside Green’s Heating Project Draws Applause
March 31st, 2007– Times Colonist
Building a heating plant in a residential neighbourhood near downtown doesn’t typically get applause. But a group of suits and green enthusiasts loudly put their hands together yesterday for the official announcement of a utility service being built smack along Victoria’s Upper Harbour on Tyee Road.
Federal government partners with industry to develop and apply clean energy technology at Dockside Green
March 30th, 2007 - Launch of Dockside Green’s Gasification System
Things are heating up at Dockside Green in Victoria, but not at the climate’s expense. And Canada’s New Government is helping to make innovative green technologies work in our communities.
Green Homeowners Are Happier with Their Homes and Recommending Them
March 26th, 2007 - McGraw-Hill Construction Research
McGraw-Hill Construction releases first research of green homeowners at the National Association of Home Builders’ Green Building Conference
Dockside Green Gets Greener with New Heating Plan
Mar. 16th – Times Colonist
Arguing less is more, Dockside Green on Victoria’s Upper Harbour is no longer planning to both heat and power its development on site. Windmill Developments has shifted its plans from utilizing a co-generating plant that would supply both heat and electricity to using hydronic (water-based) technology to provide heat but not electricity.
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Albertans Snap up Dockside
March 3rd, 2007 – Times Colonist
Albertans flush with cash these days in a booming provincial economy are increasingly turning to the residential real estate market in British Columbia. An example of that is the $600-million Dockside Green project in Victoria.
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Cleaner, Greener Shores
March 2007 – Boulevard Magazine
Now, in Victoria, the benchmark for environmentally friendly residential downtown buildings is being set higher than ever before; a new development is underway that will have the smallest ecological footprint of its kind ever seen in Canada.
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BC’s Professional Engineers & Geoscientists Provide Sustainable Solutions
February 24th, 2007 - Vancouver Sun
Sustainability, going green, triple bottom line and corporate social responsibility are all terms that refer, in some way, to the economic, social and environmental effects of citizen, business and government activity.
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Lumber from another World
February 10th, 2007 – Times Colonist
Fir from a flooded valley will be used for Dockside Green. It looks and feels like Douglas fir, takes nails and saws like Douglas fir and supports walls, floors and roofs just like Douglas fir.
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Thinking Green Revitalizes Victoria Inner Harbour
January/February 2007 – Western Canadian Resorts Vacation Homes & Investment Properties
It’s been called Canada’s most gracious city. Victoria has an enchanting milieu – old English cottage architecture just a stroll from the Pacific and a bustling shopping district that mill with tourists from around the world anytime of year.
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When Development Meets Aboriginal Heritage
January 2007 – Focus Magazine
What’s a development company to do when it wants to undertake a project on land with important heritage connections for First Nations? Two companies in Victoria recently tackled the issue from opposite ends of the spectrum.
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School Board Eyes Greener Schools
January 17th, 2007 – Oak Bay News
The same environmentally friendly concepts used in Dockside Green could be used to build green schools, says a local developer. Joe Van Belleghem of Windmill Developments told Greater Victoria School Board last week that he’d be willing to volunteer his expertise to build a green school on a pilot basis.
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