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Embedding sustainability in company cultureApr 28, 2010 - Globe and Mail TORONTO - When LoyaltyOne employees have meetings offsite, they can book one of the company’s eco-friendly Smart cars to go about their business in Toronto. This way, they can still take public transit to and from work and leave their personal vehicles at home. |
'Green City' builders facing technological, financial hurdlesApr 27, 2010 - New York Times ABU DHABI - Four years into the Masdar Initiative, a grand plan by the United Arab Emirates to create a new "greenprint" for urban design, developers are finding that the necessary elements include a stable of the world's brightest minds, plenty of cash, and a stomach for trying over. |
Climate debate gets ugly as world moves to curb CO2Apr 25, 2010 - Reuters SINGAPORE - Climate scientists, used to dealing with skeptics, are under siege like never before, targeted by hate emails brimming with abuse and accusations of fabricating global warming data. Some emails contain thinly veiled death threats. |
U.S. senators postpone climate bill unveilingApr 25, 2010 - Reuters WASHINGTON - One of President Barack Obama's top priorities - tackling global warming - suffered a severe setback on Saturday when a fight over immigration derailed plans to unveil a compromise climate change bill. |
Ottawa tells energy firms to start powering down coal-fired plantsApr 25, 2010 - Globe and Mail OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jim Prentice has told Canada’s major electricity producers that they’ll have to gradually retire their coal-fired plants and replace them with cleaner sources of power – a plan that would be a boon to natural gas producers. |
Like Sept.11, volcano plane ban may hold climate clueApr 23, 2010 - Reuters OSLO - Plane-free skies over Europe during Iceland's volcanic eruption may yield rare clues about how flights stoke climate change, adding to evidence from a closure of U.S. airspace after September 11, 2001, experts say. |
Wanted: World referendum, climate justice tribunalApr 23, 2010 - IPS COCHABAMBA, Bolivia - A world people's referendum on climate change will be held in April 2011 for the earth's peoples to decide how to address this global problem. |
Climate scientist sues National Post for 'poisoning' global warming debateApr 22, 2010 - Guardian VICTORIA - One of the world's leading climate scientists has launched a libel lawsuit against a Canadian newspaper for publishing articles that he says "poison" the debate on global warming. |
Sigourney Weaver urges Congress to pass climate legislation to protect oceansApr 22, 2010 - Associated Press WASHINGTON - Proponents of climate change legislation usually invoke the need to reduce global warming, but actress Sigourney Weaver is coming to the defence of something that's often out of sight - oceans. No longer available |
Winnipeg bike-path, walkway boomApr 20, 2010 - Winnipeg Free Press WINNIPEG - For the first time in Winnipeg's history, the city will spend almost as much money building bike and pedestrian routes this summer as it will fixing local and regional streets. |
Global temperatures broke heat records for MarchApr 16, 2010 - Reuters WASHINGTON, DC - The world's combined global land and ocean surface temperature made last month the warmest March on record, according to federal government scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). |
Canada waits for US to move on cap-and-trade planApr 16, 2010 - BusinessWeek TORONTO - Canada will not act this year on a cap-and-trade system to control climate change because the government does not expect the U.S. to pass emissions-control legislation this year, Canada's environment minister said Thursday. |
Manitoba’s greenhouse emissions continue to riseApr 16, 2010 - Winnipeg Sun WINNIPEG - As the target date draws nearer for Manitoba to meet its Kyoto Protocol goals, the latest figures released by the federal government show Manitoba’s emissions continue to climb, and are now at an all-time high. |
UK inquiry clears climate scientists in email rowApr 14, 2010 - Reuters LONDON - An inquiry cleared British climate researchers of wrongdoing on Wednesday after their emails were hacked, leaked and held up by skeptics as evidence they had exaggerated the case for man-made global warming. |
Greens launch NAFTA action on Canada oil sandsApr 14, 2010 - Reuters OTTAWA - Environmental groups launched a complaint against Canada under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Wednesday, saying the country has failed to enforce anti-pollution rules governing its vast oil sands. |
Senators consider gasoline tax as part of climate billApr 14, 2010 - Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - Leading voices in the Senate are considering a new tax on gasoline as part of an effort to win Republican and oil industry support for the energy and climate bill now idling in Congress. |
Skirmishes renewed at UN climate conferenceApr 11, 2010 - Associated Press BONN, Germany — Climate talks nearly ground to a halt before they began in earnest Sunday, with delegates squabbling over how to conduct negotiations for the rest of the year on a new agreement to control global warming. |
U.S. Senators prepare compromise climate change billApr 11, 2010 - Reuters WASHINGTON - Six months after introducing a sweeping climate change bill that flopped in the Senate, Democrat John Kerry is preparing to offer a compromise measure that seeks to reel in reluctant senators. |
Oil and gas leases put on hold in Mont., DakotasApr 9, 2010 - Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. - Plans to sell 91,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota were put on hold Thursday until federal land managers study how oilfield activities contribute to climate change. |
Bears and deer die at oil sands sitesApr 8, 2010 - CTV News CALGARY - Government documents show that animals other than ducks have died at Alberta's oil sands sites. |
City displays new transportation projectsApr 8, 2010 - The Winnipeg Sun WINNIPEG - The City of Winnipeg continued Wednesday to lay out the course for its biggest year yet of active transportation construction. |
Ontario takes green lead with $8-billion energy investmentApr 7, 2010 - Globe and Mail TORONTO - The Ontario government will announce today that it is awarding just over $8-billion in renewable energy projects to dozens of companies, making it the biggest investment of its kind in Canadian history. |
Printer impresses clients with eco-changesApr 7, 2010 - Globe and Mail TORONTO - Eco-friendly isn't a term that jumps to mind when thinking about the printing industry. Paper consumption, energy-hungry presses and hazardous waste get in the way. But Toronto-based Thistle Printing Ltd. is leading a green revolution. |
Green cars: Resistance is futileApr 7, 2010 - Globe and Mail NEW YORK - Over the next half-dozen years, the auto industry will flood the marketplace with fuel-efficient traditional cars loaded with technologies designed to squeeze every kilometre out of a litre of fuel. And while that's happening, the electrification of the automobile business will accelerate in earnest. |
Alberta lowers expectations for climate-change fundApr 6, 2010 - Edmonton Journal EDMONTON — The provincial government has slashed its expectations for making Alberta's biggest carbon producers pay into a climate-change fund. |
Shareholders at loggerheads over BP's tar sands developmentApr 4, 2010 - The Guardian LONDON - Large shareholders will be pitted against each other this week in a row over oil giant BP's involvement with tar sands in a battle that is set to dominate this year's round of company annual meetings. |
Canada, U.S. set to announce auto emission standards for new carsApr 1, 2010 - Canadian Press OTTAWA - Canada and the U.S. are set to announce new harmonized auto emissions standards, a move that's designed to push automakers to build more fuel-efficient cars. No longer available |
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