Thank you to everyone who helped to make this year's conference a great success.  More then 100 attendees included farmers, manufacturers, researchers and business and industry leaders. 

To download a copy of the ELORIN Biofibres and Building Conference Report, click here.

A copy of each speakers' presentations are available below (because of the size and number of images in some of the presentation, they have been broken down into smaller files - sorry if this causes any inconvenience):

Wednesday 13 August 

Keynote Speaker 

Jonathan Westeinde (Founder & CEO, Windmill Development Group) - Sustainable Communities: How can we afford not to? 

Part 1

Part 2

Thursday 14 August 

Peter Matthewman (President, Performance Plants Inc.) - Harvesting the Sun for Food and Fibre

Chris Magwood (Designer and Lead Instructor, Sustainable Building Design and Construction Program, Fleming College) - Building with Biomass

Session One - Producers

John Baker (President and Founder, Stonehedge Bio-Resources Inc.) - Leveraging the Upper Canada Hemp Traits for Biomass Development

Session Two - Materials

Deirdre McGahern (Owner/Builder, Staworks) - Straw Bale Construction: A Builder's Story

John Baker/Mike Duckett (Managing Director, Hemcore) - Hemcrete: A Carbon Negitive Construction System

Lunchtime Speaker 

Gord Surgeoner (President, Ontario Agri-Food Technologies) - Food and Fuel: We'll need both from Agriculture 

Session Three - Energy

Ian Kilborn (Co-Owner, Quantum Renewable Energy) - Commercial Solar Hot Water

Cam Mather (Partner/Publisher, Aztext Press) - How the unfolding energy crisis necessitates integrating renewable energy into every home

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Brad Leonard (Partner, Renewable Energy of Plum Hollow) - Home Heating with Biomass

Session Four - Design

Roger Willoughby (Industrial Technical Advisor, NRC-IRAP) - Green Building - A Trend or Reality?

Francis Lapointe (Principal, Lapointe Architects) - Building a Green cheese Factory

Part 1

Part 2

Jamie Shipley (Senior Research Consultant - Research and Information Technology Transfer, Canadian Mortgage and Housing) - EQuilibrium: Healthy Housing for a Healthy Environment

ELORIN wishes to thank the sponsors for this event:

GOLD SPONSOR

SILVER SPONSORS

BMDodo Strategic Design

BRONZE SPONSORS

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