Tower power: How buildings will create their own energy. Plus: Smart cards are coming - arrival date 2010.
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Quick, what part of your workday generates the most pollution? The commute, right? Sitting alone in your car, you pump out carbon twice a day. While cars are undoubtedly a problem, the truth is that personal vehicles account for only 21 per cent of...
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A few minutes into this column I checked my e-mail for the 22nd time. It’s a bad habit but today it paid off: a press release from Samsung Canada informs me Canadians want to buy green products. The first sentence reports “four out of five Canadians...
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The rockstar has turned inventor, and he wants us all driving big comfortable electric cars. When word started to trickle across the Internet that Neil Young was building an electric car, the initial response was understandable confusion. Young is...
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The 2009 federal budget’s focus on infrastructure spending may help stimulate the economy in the short term but, in my view, the focus should be on research in science and technology. This is crucial to Canada’s long-term productivity and growth....
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Keeping Web site content fresh simply isn’t enough these days. With so many different types of technology all promising to deliver page views, sales leads and conversions by the bucketload, it’s tough to determine which features your corporate Web...
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The environmental performance of a company is not just measured by how it ranks on sustainability ratings or how well it responds to environmental or sustainability benchmark questionnaires. “The performance of a company—its real...
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Redefining 9 to 5. Three years ago David Hawkins spent more than two hours a day crammed into a crawling Vancouver bus. He jostled and was jostled, breathed other people’s air and stared out the windows at rush-hour pedestrians who sometimes made...
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For the past few years there has been a push to provide computer access to students across the globe on the premise that technology and the Internet are great equalizers. The Brazil Ministry of Education is at the forefront of this...
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Homebuyers nationwide want to purchase energy efficient homes, but the environment is actually taking a back seat to cost. Money, not trees, is the driving factor. A recent Green Building study conducted in 2008 by EnerQuality showed a rise in...
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Take a social networking site, add in a business focus and then wrap the whole thing with green awareness and what you get is GreenLinkz, at least according to the site’s founders. GreenLinkz.com is an online business social networking site for those...
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Research conducted by hosting company 1&1 Internet revealed 78 per cent of online shoppers prefer sites that have positive environmental practices. Such practices include hosting by servers powered by renewable energy or even just being...
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TD Canada’s operations in British Columbia are now powered completely by renewable energy. In a partnership with Bullfrog Power, TD bought 22,500 MWh of renewable energy, enough to power 139 branches of the bank, six investor centres and eight...
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Businesses worldwide are beginning to think environmentally, realizing that being green creates a noticeable impact on the bottom line, according to a new global study from IBM. Specifically, it showed mid-sized organizations are combatting the...
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1 ARTEX Environmental: this Toronto-based company specializes in the processing of old and obsolete electronic equipment, with environmental disposal in mind.
www.artexenvironmental.com
2 Bycast: provides large-scale storage for...
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The first step in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is understanding how much your company produces. That has been very difficult, but a project from EMC and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development will soon deliver tools that will help...
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The Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) has established “Sustainability Performance Objectives” and, in alignment with its own commitment to corporate-social responsibility, Bell, a Premier National Partner and the exclusive...
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