Green Press
| June 2010 | ||
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Tricia narrates a new video for Vital Engineering "Help Change the World". Check it out on YouTube now! |
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| 17 August 2009 | ||
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Tricia chats with www.greenr.ca about building her off-the-grid vacation home in Alberta, Canada. Tricia Helfer On Her Green Home ... What inspired you to build a green home? Helfer: Well, we are a ways off of actually building it yet. I’ve been talking about it for almost two years and have gotten some flak for it not being built yet, but we don’t mind taking our time. It’s a vacation home so there is no rush and we want to make sure we do it right. A few years ago we underwent a massive renovation on our home in L.A and, although we are very happy with most of the house, we were shocked at how “ungreen” we did it. We assumed that all the options would be readily out there or offered to us by all the people involved in the build, but not one green technology was. My husband and I were both working insane hours at our jobs and I was most of the time in Vancouver filming Battlestar Galactica, so we didn’t take enough attention. I was so overwhelmed with trying to pick everything out while on weekend trips back to L.A that, to be honest, I ended up on ulcer and anxiety medicine. Renovating is incredibly hard, especially when you don’t have an interior designer and have an architect that left a lot to be desired. After we moved back in, we realized we were so incredibly ignorant not to include even the basic green technologies. We have since put in solar panels for the pool and are currently revamping the yard to be more desert landscape, like the area should be, instead of tropical. Hence, when we started on the Alberta project we made a decision to try to be the opposite and see how green we could go. Initially, we wanted to go prefab but couldn’t find anything in Canada that had the modern architecture that we were looking for. We then hired an architect and began the back and forth process of designing the house from scratch. Then, as life usually presents itself, just as we were about to sign off and go to blueprints, my husband discovered a prefab company out of Toronto, Mafco House, that was exactly what we were looking for. We are now in the back and forth process with Mafco but nearing the end. ... |
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| 29 January 2009 | ||
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Tricia stopped by to chat with Bonnie of the The Bonnie Hunt Show on January 29th to chat about building a green, off-the-grid house in Alberta, Canada. | |
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| September 2008 | ||
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Check out Tricia Helfer in the Fall issue of Green Living magazine as she discusses building off-the-grid and why she chose to do it in Alberta, Canada. | |
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| 22 May 2008 | ||
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Tricia talks about building green in Alberta on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. | |
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| 11 April 2008 | ||
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Tricia Helfer recently made her Tonight Show debut and discussed life on the family farm near Donalda, Alberta, Canada with host Jay Leno and fellow guest William Shatner. | |
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| 04 February 2008 | ||
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Tricia revealed her 'fabulist' on The Steven and Chris Show on Monday, Feb. 4th and announced her plans of building 'green' in Alberta. | |
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| 01 February 2008 | ||
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Tricia Helfer sits down with Alexandra Burroughs of The Calgary Herald to discuss her move from Alberta to Hollywood and back again.
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| 06 December 2007 | ||
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Catch Tricia as she sits down with George Stroumboulopoulos of The Hour. |
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| 29 November 2007 | ||
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Tricia Helfer: farm girl with a whip
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| 17 April 2007 | ||
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Take a tour of Tricia and Jonathan's L.A. home with MTV Cribs |
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| 19 January 2007 | ||
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Check out Tricia Helfer on The Late Show with David Letterman, and see what she had to say about growing up on a farm in Alberta, Canada. | |
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