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Green Tech for Your Home

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Innovative gadgets to spruce up your space

As the world embraces a shift toward sustainable design, it’s natural that our homes reflect the changing times. From near-silent ceiling fans to a self-watering countertop garden, we’ve rounded up some green tech to enhance the way you experience and live in your home.

Green Tech for your home

Ember Smart Temperature Control Mug 2

Say goodbye to lukewarm coffee. With a built-in battery and smart LED system, this future-proof mug keeps your cup of joe at a perfect drinking temperature of 50 C to 62.5 C. $200, at Indigo.

Green Tech Home Interiors

Nanoleaf Elements

The customizable panels of Nanoleaf’s latest release create a warm, natural glow in any space. This system’s compact design and handy Bluetooth feature make it easy and energy-efficient to ditch harsh overhead lighting for something more curated. $250, at Nanoleaf.

Smart Garden

Smart Garden 9

Bring the outdoors in with this compact and minimalistic home garden. From your laundry room to your kitchen counter, this small but mighty green tech device sustains the growth of your fresh herbs, veggies and flowers with its self-watering feature and controlled lighting. $259, at Best Buy.

Ceiling fan for green home

Aviator Flush Smart Ceiling Fan

Sleek and modern in its design, this near-silent ceiling fan by Modern Forms is equipped with a three-blade configuration and low-noise DC motor for a seamless integration into any environment. Control and customize the settings with the device’s RF wall control or through your smartphone using the Modern Forms app. Approx. $822, at Robinson Lighting & Bath.

RainStick, home tech

RainStick

Saving you water, energy and money, this bathroom green tech uses a Wi-Fi embedded circular system to keep your water levels as low as possible. With a partnering app, you can monitor how much water you’ve saved, plus change temperature and flow rate to your desired need. $6,600, at RainStick.

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The Bentway’s playful installation of 50 trees in shopping carts shines a light on climate resilience and green equity

In a city grappling with rising temperatures, accelerated development and increasing inequity in green space accessibility, Moving Forest arrives not as a solution, but as an invitation to rethink our relationship with nature. Designed by NL Architects as a part of The Bentway’s Sun/Shade exhibition, this outlandish yet purposeful installation transforms a fleet of 50 shopping carts into mobile vessels for native trees—red maples, silver maples, sugar maples and autumn blaze—that roll through some of Toronto’s most sun-scorched plazas, creating impromptu oases of shade and community.

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