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Beespot Neighbourhoods BEESPOT aims to build compact Green Passive House neighbourhoods that harness renewable energy and co I'm a BEESPOTTER, and this is my BEESPOT story.

BEESPOT — Building Environmental and Economical Sustainable Places Of Tomorrow

I’m not a professional developer. I am a son, a father, an uncle a future grandfather and a neighbour – a citizen choosing to create a new way of living that supports people and the planet. I love travelling with my children. There is something about spending dedicated time with people I cherish that ignites my sense o

f awareness, responsibility and creative determination. Two separate trips – one to witness a wedding proposal by my eldest son – and one to celebrate my daughter’s twenty-second birthday – these hours were transformative experiences that launched this BEESPOT journey. We were quite literally taking off! At the heart of BEESPOT is a simple desire to do things differently, for the right reasons, and for the greater good of families, communities and the environment. BEESPOT is the convergence of time-earned perspective, curiosity and the desire of a father to create a different homeowner experience for my three children – and for everyone’s children — and to ensure that we shift our collective thinking, committing, through our actions, to minimize our environmental footprint. Family is everything to me. It’s tough for our young adult children to find their way. Post-secondary education doesn’t necessarily equate to jobs that can sustain them right away. Many are starting their careers with huge burdens of student loan debt, and more and more frequently, I hear young people giving up on the dream of one day being able to afford their own home in the Capital Region. Once married, where will they grow their children? Where will they grow their food? My younger son purchased his “miniature” condo with no green space, no yard, no conservation systems and no renewable energy. At a 9:1 ratio of cost to income, the mortgage costs and utility/strata costs are expensive and increasing. To make matters worse, I also hear a generalized acceptance of this ‘reality’ from parents, many who are also struggling to figure out how they can afford the payments on their own homes let alone plan for retirement. So, what do we do about this? What can be done? Just accepting that our children must leave the community far from their extended family to find an affordable place to live is unacceptable. Can we stand by and witness that affordability is dividing communities rather than uniting them? I say no, let’s do something about it as individual citizens. Through BEESPOT, I am choosing to build something innovative and realizable. Its success will be measured once multiple generations have lived our neighbourhood dream, and experienced the environmental and economical impacts of a BEESPOT lifestyle. Perspective without judgement frees us to be inspired by curiosity and creativity and emboldens us to “BEE” the change that we want to see for our children. With BEESPOT, I am choosing to create a new way of living that supports people and the planet. I look forward to meeting you to get more critical insight. Every person that has listened to my story and our plan has inspired with their comments to improve the framework of BEESPOT 1.0 ……a SUSTAINABLE PLACE OF TOMORROW!

— NINO, BEESPOT FOUNDER

October update for Saanich’s Backyard newsletter https://www.saanich.ca/assets/Community/Documents/Planni...
10/24/2021

October update for Saanich’s Backyard newsletter


https://www.saanich.ca/assets/Community/Documents/Planning/OurBackyardFall2021Web.pdf

Our Passive House air barrier is in place before the 9 inch “Outsulation” made of recycled cellulose will be filled in t...
10/24/2021

Our Passive House air barrier is in place before the 9 inch “Outsulation” made of recycled cellulose will be filled in the vertical CHANNELS

Up & Up 🐝🏘 BEElieve
05/14/2021

Up & Up 🐝🏘 BEElieve


02/19/2021

Beginning our first Passive House on lot #3 with ICF construction ...insulated concrete forms 🐝 🏡

11/03/2020

Thankyou BEEspotters for all your encouragement and support 🙏🏻 these past 3 years ..

Healthy & Hopeful Holiday to all 🙏🏻... some drone footage by Rico on site Good Friday 🐝🏘
04/12/2020

Healthy & Hopeful Holiday to all
🙏🏻... some drone footage by Rico on site Good Friday 🐝🏘

Today we drill for Sustainable alternate water 💦 crossing our fingers for a geyser ... maybe 400 feet deep $
01/23/2020

Today we drill for Sustainable alternate water 💦 crossing our fingers for a geyser ... maybe 400 feet deep $

Passive Houses found locally to tour
11/04/2019

Passive Houses found locally to tour

Passive House Days are next week! Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to visit Passive House buildings near you and experience their benefits first-hand. More information here: http://bit.ly/PHCdays2019-projects

So many thanks to Bianca at http://biophiliacollective.ca/ for the planned Naturescape landscape design 🙏 for BEESPOT’s ...
06/12/2019

So many thanks to Bianca at http://biophiliacollective.ca/ for the planned Naturescape landscape design 🙏 for BEESPOT’s first house .....BEElieve 🐝

BEESPOTTER’s sneak-peak at our first PassiveHouse for BEESPOT lot #3 with Thankyou
02/27/2019

BEESPOTTER’s sneak-peak at our first PassiveHouse for BEESPOT lot #3 with Thankyou

Happy Thanksgiving ...so lucky to have a pop-in 🛬 visit from BEESPOT Co-founder Lina , to celebrate with family & friend...
10/06/2018

Happy Thanksgiving ...so lucky to have a pop-in 🛬 visit from BEESPOT Co-founder Lina , to celebrate with family & friends 🎉 Feeling thankful for all our especially supportive BEESPOTTERs 🙏🏻🐝 🦃

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