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  • Nexterra wins British Columbia Technology Industry Association award for best application of technology
    17.06.10 Energy/Clean Tech >> News
    Nexterra Systems Corp., a leading supplier of advanced, renewable biomass gasification heat and power solutions, earlier this week announced that it has received the Best Application of Technology Award from the British Columbia Industry Association (BCTIA).

    This award recognizes Nexterra's biomass gasification system at Kruger Products LP's New Westminster tissue mill. The…
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  • BSR Guide offers energy efficiency advice for companies' China-based suppliers
    17.06.10 Sustainability Reporting >> News
    China emits more greenhouse gasses than any other country, and many of its factories use much more energy than similar facilities in other countries. This gives global companies the opportunity to profoundly reduce their climate impacts by working with their China-based suppliers.

    While energy-efficiency investments in China are cost-effective, challenges related to…
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  • Red Deer Plasco facility receives $10 million grant
    17.06.10 Energy/Clean Tech >> News
    The Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation of Alberta announced this week its commitment to a $10 million grant to Plasco Alberta for the construction of the previously announced Plasco Conversion System for the Central Waste Management Commission (CWMC) to be located in Red Deer County, Alberta. The grant is subject to…
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  • Cartier Wind Energy wins three awards in the second Gala of the Technocentre éolien
    17.06.10 Energy/Clean Tech >> News
    Cartier Wind Energy Inc. accepted Company of the Year and Construction of Wind Farms awards in Quebec's 2nd Wind Energy Industry Gala organized by the "Technocentre éolien" (Wind Energy Technocentre), in addition to seeing an officer recognized for his contributions. The gala is designed to recognize organizations and individuals that have excelled in Quebec during…
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  • BC public sector receives $25 million energy jolt
    17.06.10 Legal & Regulatory >> News
    The British Columbia government will give $25 million in energy retrofits to schools, universities, colleges, hospitals and Crown corporations to create jobs and cut carbon pollution, according to a government news release.
     
    “We know this investment will immediately translate into a lower energy footprint for public sector buildings, less carbon pollution, and…
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  • Fredericton company receives $350,000 investment from province
    17.06.10 Green Building >> News
    The Government of New Brunswick is investing $350,000 in Scott’s Nursery Ltd., a Fredericton-area company, to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Department of Environment is making the investment through the New Brunswick Climate Action Fund (NBCAF) to help the company replace oil-fired boilers with pellet boilers and install an energy curtain in its greenhouse. Read more...
  • Four EllisDon projects achieve LEED certification
    17.06.10 Green Building >> News
    Four EllisDon projects have achieved LEED certification through the CaGBC (Canada Green Building Council). The projects are:
     
    1.     Bay Adelaide Centre (BAC) in Toronto (LEED CS Gold) – EllisDon was the Construction Manager for this project, owned and operated by Brookfield Properties. Construction for the BAC started in April 2006, and the…
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  • Government incentives needed for green investment, according to survey
    17.06.10 Legal & Regulatory >> News
    According to a new global survey by workspace solutions provider Regus, 68% of Canadian companies believe that government tax breaks are required to accelerate adoption of green investment.
     
    In Canada, the Regus survey also found that: 9% of companies monitor their carbon footprint (the lowest percentage globally) 24% had a corporate policy…
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  • Alberta government: Energy efficiency rebates provide rewards
    17.06.10 Legal & Regulatory >> News
    In its inaugural year, the Government of Alberta says its energy efficiency rebate program has delivered more than 66,000 rebates to Albertan homeowners—worth more than $13 million—who have invested in environmental upgrades.
     
    “The tremendous response in the program’s initial year demonstrates Albertans’ commitment to reducing their environmental impacts,” said Environment Minister Rob…
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  • New energy efficiency blog launched by Smartcool
    17.06.10 Green Building >> News
    Smartcool Systems Inc. recently announced the launch of its new blog on energy efficiency for buildings. The 'Energy Efficiency News' blog will provide readers with another source of news on developments, legislation and ideas within the facility energy efficiency sector.

    The energy efficiency industry is developing at a breakneck pace and is…
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Nexterra wins British Columbia Technology Industry Association award for best application of technol

News | Newswire | Jun 17, 2010

Nexterra Systems Corp., a leading supplier of advanced, renewable biomass gasification heat and power solutions, earlier this week announced that it has received the Best Application of Technology Award from the British Columbia Industry Association (BCTIA). This award recognizes Nexterra's biomass gasification system at Kruger Products LP's New Westminster tissue mill. ...

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World's first CCS standard to be developed by CSA Standards and IPAC-CO2 Research

Features | Newswire | Jun 17, 2010

CSA Standards, a leading developer of standards, codes and personnel certification programs, and the International Performance Assessment Centre for Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide (IPAC-CO2 Research Inc.) this week announced a joint agreement to develop Canada's first carbon capture and storage (CCS) standard for the geologic storage of industrial emissions. ...

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Canadian companies want government to take the lead on climate change

Features | Leanne Sereda | Jun 3, 2010

Undoubtedly, the way of the future for Canadian companies will be to adopt business practices that help reduce their carbon footprint and improve the environment. Some of this will be in response to consumer interest. But the majority of businesses believe it's up to government to create this behavioural shift. ...

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Spec Furntiure aiming for zero waste

Features | Jennifer Taves | Jun 3, 2010

Spec Furniture began its journey towards sustainability some years ago, but really stepped it up in 2009. “By properly separating our waste we have increased our waste diversion from 5 per cent to 75 per cent in a matter of months,” says Jed McKie, Design Engineer and leader of environmental ...

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Senators Kerry and Lieberman unveil draft energy and climate change bill

Features | GB Staff | May 20, 2010

On May 12, 2010, Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman released the initial draft of a comprehensive climate change and clean energy bill, titled the “American Power Act” (APA). The 987-page draft bill, which has not been formally introduced in the Senate, is the product of months of negotiations led ...

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Ontario's proposed Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act aims to boost clean water tech

Features | GB Staff | May 20, 2010

As part of its Open Ontario Plan the province is taking steps to make Ontario the leading clean water jurisdiction in North America. The proposed Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act would, if passed, encourage the creation and export of innovative clean water technology, promote water conservation, attract economic development ...

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Columns

By Rob Abbott
Consider the tuna…
The late American writer, David Foster Wallace, in his characteristically probing style, once asked, in an essay titled “Consider the Lobster”, if it was “all right to boil a...
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By Cheryl Slusarchuk
BC continues the renewable energy momentum
British Columbia is aggressive in its determination to remain a global leader in clean and renewable energy. This is not surprising, given that a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study predicts that...
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By Keith Neuman, Ph.D.
The American public is losing interest in climate change; are Canadians following in their footsteps?
Climate change has been around as an environmental issue since the late 1980s and finally emerged to capture the spotlight in 2007, helped by a combination of climatic, political and media events...
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1. Review: CSR Trends 3
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There are a plethora of books that explain how to introduce sustainability in your business, and reports that rank companies on their sustainability performance. However there are few that explain, succinctly, ...
2. Schulich tops ranking as greenest MBA program
(Sustainability Reporting/News)
... guidebook for prospective MBA students, titled The Sustainable MBA, which is already available at Amazon.com and the Aspen Institute’s publication website.    ...
... with core business strategy. Conscious Endeavours, his newest book, is a collection of essays and speeches that aim to help business leaders guide their thinking as they consider how to create that deep ...
4. Review - The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook
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Reviewed by Lenny Talarico Willard, R. (2009). The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook: How to transform your company. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, B.C. 130p. The hard facts of climate ...
... boom/bust cycles, spiking and falling gas prices, abnormal weather patterns — these days, it’s getting harder and harder to make sense of the world. But economist Jeff Rubin’s new book ...
... and then get them to commit to making it part of their business practice. This shouldn’t be the case, but it is. In Adam Werbach’s new book, Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto, ...
7. Green IT Guide: Review
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... by everyone in an organization. The Guide can be purchased on its own or as part of the Green IT Guide and Toolkit. The toolkit includes:   The Green IT Measurement workbook. This workbook contains ...
8. Key Developments in Environmental Law
(Content/Excerpts & White Papers)
... course of a year, much of what we hear about is primarily noise - small steps toward legislation or political jockeying for influence in legislation that may be a year or more away. This makes a book like ...
9. In conversation with: Nelson Switzer, Direct Energy
(Sustainability Reporting/Features)
... have accomplished much in a short time. In my book, there are three degrees of CR: there is Corporate Citizenship, CR and Sustainability, with each having a deeper embedding of the principles of sustainable ...
10. The Green Building Bottom Line — review and excerpt
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... firm. There are chapters that examine core values, human resources, marketing, and legal issues related to green building practices. The critical message that’s probably stressed most in the book is the ...
... the volume of banking complaints reviewed, with minimal additional investigative staff.   Three of the four awards were copies of titles printed by Canada Law Book. Green Business editor Robert Colman ...
12. Strategies for the Green Economy: Review
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... if you read Makower’s new book, Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and challenges in the new world of business, you will realize if you didn’t start your green production and marketing initiatives ...
13. Green IT review and excerpt
(Content/Excerpts & White Papers)
... Anthony Velte and Robert Elsenpeter is the best book I’ve seen thus far to help with that process. The book outlines the reasons why an organization should care about this issue - financially and environmentally ...
... at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University, where she collaborates on research with Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter. Her credits include two books and over ...
...   Carlson Hotels recently conducted its own guest survey, which found: Overall, guests feel they are "very engaged" in environmental issues and 58 per cent said they would be willing to book a hotel ...
16. Just Good Business - review and excerpt
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New book explains how to integrate CSR in your brand strategy If you are reading this magazine, chances are that you have some sense of the value that can come from having a strong corporate social ...
17. Wealth from renewal: a review and excerpt of ReWealth!
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... the twentieth century.   In his new book, ReWealth, Cunningham argues that a "de / re shift" is underway. Development is giving way to redevelopment, depletion to replenishment, degradation to remediation, ...
... sign-off on the back of the document." "It’s not as mature a market as financial auditing, where the CICA has standards and a handbook, etc.," notes Mike Harris. "However we do see a trend where clients ...
19. The Necessary Revolution
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A lot of books cross my desk, but few grab my attention the way one new title did recently. The book, The Necessary Revolution, How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create ...
It’s nearly impossible to avoid the issue of climate change today. Yet, there are very few books that explain how business executives should handle the issue. Business executives have to consider how ...
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