Written by: Shahira on April 8, 2011
Have you ever noticed that most cars are parked for the majority of the day? People often only need their vehicle to get to work and for errands such as groceries. So the rest of the time why not have other people using the car? This is the idea behind car shares and car co-ops. [...]
Written by: Shahira on March 3, 2011
We are constantly inundated with dooms day stories of the oil spill, climate change and just overall a rapidly declining environment. It is easy to become completely defeated in the face of global scale issues where the proposed responses, of stopping all industrial activity and for everyone to stop driving cars, just seem extreme and [...]
Written by: Shahira on January 14, 2011
If you were in the Southern Ontario area ringing in the new year you may have noticed how warm and green everything was. While it was a great break, it was not what most people had been expecting. So was that an indicator of the great doom and gloom everyone is predicting when they talk [...]
Written by: Shahira on January 6, 2011
Regardless of party divides we can all (hopefully) agree that the environment is a serious issue. We may all disagree on what the next steps should be but it is refreshing to see so much attention being given to the appointment of MP Peter Kent as the new environment minister. The Conservative Party has been [...]
Written by: Trudy on December 24, 2010
better safe than sorry: (GUELPH, ON) December 16, 2010– Guelph Hydro Inc. has sent a message to the North Pole to advise Santa and his reindeer about the installation of solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of the Guelph Hydro facility at 395 Southgate Drive. Once operational, these solar panels will generate 100 kilowatts of [...]
Written by: Shahira on December 10, 2010
Have you ever wanted to fix something up rather than throw it out or be creative with wood, glass, metal or a host of other materials? Access to space, know how and tools have been a limitation for many who would be keen to explore creating and fixing things. That’s why Guelph is lucky to [...]
Written by: Dave on November 30, 2010
Hats off to Google for including trees in Google Earth
Written by: Justin on November 15, 2010
Recently Spanish solar panel manufacturer, Siliken, announced it is going to be opening a new manufacturing plant in Windsor. The 50 megawatt, $40 million plant will likely create 150 jobs for the surrounding area. Windsor, being one of the southernmost cities in Canada, was chosen by Siliken because of the provincial government’s Green Energy Act [...]
Written by: Shahira on November 8, 2010
There has been a lot of buzz lately on the Government of Ontario’s GreenFIT strategy, which stands for Green Focus on Innovation and Technology. So what is it really? Basically, the Ontario government is making a commitment to support businesses developing new green products and services by considering them over their conventional purchasing. So if you are [...]
Written by: Trudy on October 20, 2010
I hadn’t realized that 1.5% of all the paper cups in the United States were from Starbucks. In this article from November’s issue of FastCompany, there’s a fair amount of detail about what goes into making cups recyclable. for the FTC, which regulates environmental marketing claims, to consider a material worthy of being branded with [...]
