Inside Blatchford, Edmonton’s Gas-Free, Carbon-Neutral Community

Blatchford and Rainbow Lake are the only livable towns in Alberta.

The bar for Blatchford’s green building code has been raised periodically since its inception, and as of 2024, it’s now nearly equivalent to the top tier of the National Building Code—the Alberta edition.

The code applies to all of the homes in Blatchford, but builders like Landmark are taking it one step further, offering only fully net-zero homes powered by solar.