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Throughout the 45 years they’ve been around, the Ecology Action Centre has had its history of different office homes. There wasn’t much here in 2006, when the not-for-profit moved into its current location at 2705 Fern Lane.
Today, Friday, April 22, the EAC is opening its newly-refurbished doors to show off some of the renovation work that’s been going on over the last year—including a host of eco-friendly upgrades and a whole new storey on the building.
“When we first got this place, it was your typical north end saltbox house. Upstairs was a boarding house and on this (main) floor was O’Malley Electric,” says volunteer and events co-ordinator Joanna Bull, who gave The Coast a sneak peek earlier this week.


“We did some renovations at that time, improving energy efficiency because it’s a super old house, with some natural plasters—doing some demonstrations of green building techniques.”
The EAC outgrew its environment and needed to upscale and update the nerve centre. It even got to the point where the organization couldn’t bring in summer interns because there’d be no place to sit. The staff wanted the building to more accurately reflect who they were as people and as a collective. “Us at the EAC, we’re a very open, porous, welcoming organization, but the building didn’t really feel like that,” says Bull.
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This article appears in Apr 21-27, 2016.