SWITCH Open Meeting - November 7, 2025
You are invited to join the sustainable energy community of south eastern Ontario!
When: November 7, 2025 | 8:00am
Where: In Person, Beamish Munro Hall Room 111 @ Queen's U.,
45 Union St., Kingston, ON
and via Zoom |
FREE Event!
LIMESTONE CITY CO-OPERATIVE GREEN BUILDING PROJECT
Learn how the new Limestone City Co-Operative Housing Inc. green building project integrates vertical farming, common areas, and an abundance of green space to give its members opportunities to join in on common causes like nutritious food production, community building, and self-governance. Together, this endeavour will advance human physical, financial, and psychological flourishing while fighting seven crises in one project: the 1) housing supply crisis, 2) housing affordability crisis, 3) food security crisis, 4) access to nutritious food crisis, 5) epidemic of loneliness and isolation, 6) climate crisis, and 7) energy crunch crisis coming to North America. – all while lowering the cost of living, providing a lifestyle within the bounds that nature allows and delivering crucial opportunities for contact with nature and community.
The building’s design integrates crucial therapeutic contact with nature. The building was designed based on the biophilic hypothesis that we as a species have evolved to have an innate desire for certain identifiable elements in our home environment that promote a sense of home, peace, and safety. Hence the prevalence of greenery, earth tones, curves, and open spaces.
Limestone City Co-Operative Housing Inc was created to address the growing and pressing need for more housing in Kingston. LCCH will offer a unique option for housing – one where community-minded people of good will from all walks-of-life for whom home ownership may be out of reach, but who long for control and input over their living situation, can find a home.
We view this building as the first of many. We believe that this vision will transform how society thinks about housing, food production, and climate change solutions.
JEFF MCLAREN is a Kingston City 
Councillor and founder of LCCH — an ambitious project that blends affordable housing, vertical farming, and green technology into a single blueprint for sustainable community living. Drawing on two decades in property management and public service, Jeff is working to prove that buildings can grow food, generate power, and strengthen community all at once.
Join him to explore how LCCH’s “Dignified Housing” model could redefine what sustainable development looks like in Kingston and beyond.
Come to the Beamish Munro Hall, 45 union St., Room 111 or click the link below on the day of the event to join. See you there!
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Passcode: 991969
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