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REPORT: Canadian Cleantech Companies Only 1% of $1 Trillion Global Industry
A new report released by the Pembina Institute says that despite a “go slow” approach to clean-energy development, Canada remains relatively competitive globally, but risks falling behind. The report, “Competing in Clean Energy” highlights the findings of previous studies, but also included information gathered by interviews with leading entrepreneurs and academics across Canada. The “go [...]
In Focus: Connecting the Americas 2022
By 2022, the Obama administration hopes to finish off an electrical grid that will connect all of the Americas, from northern Canada down through the Caribbean and ending at the southern tip of South America. The idea behind ”Connecting the Americas 2022″ is to make electricity universally available – and is part of the US State Department’s broader effort, the Energy and Climate Partnership [...]
Mitt Romney Announces Energy Policy
Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney is on the campaign trail with an environmental agenda in mind. He is laying out a series of policies today, centred on achieving energy independence by 2020. Romney hopes to do this by pursuing a sharp increase in oil and natural gas production on federal lands. The Republican hopes to [...]
Bill Gates Funds Solar Toilet
The practice of open defecation and dirth of sanitation in developing nations kills 1.5 million children under the age of 5 every year, according to philanthropist Bill Gates. So Gates and his wife, Melinda, are devoting $6.5 million to research and development project meant to reinvent the toilet for countries that lack the infrastructure to [...]
What Clean Energy Bubble?
There was a clever headline in the satirical newspaper The Onion last week that wouldn’t be so humorous if it wasn’t true. “300 Million Without Electricity In India After Restoration Of Power Grid,” the headline read. The article was referring to the massive power outage across India last Tuesday that cut electricity to 670 million [...]
3 Reasons Eco Friendly Sustainable Houses Rock
We all know that our planet is seriously polluted and that people keep spending more and more energy, which is extremely bad for our planet, therefore we need to change our bad habits to conserve our planet for future generations to enjoy. There are many ways we can reduce our energy consumption and one of [...]
Smart Grid to See More American Investment than Electric Vehicles
Smart grid growth in Canada and the United States will likely encourage greater investment in renewable energy resources and electric vehicle adoption, according to a recent report. Global Data, a UK-based research and analyses firm, released a report about the increased speed of smart grid adoption in North America earlier this month. Incentive funds for [...]
The Greenest Cities in Canada
According to a 2011 index sponsored by Siemens, Vancouver is the greenest city in Canada and Montreal is the least green. The index measured and rated the environmental performance of 27 cities in the US and Canada in nine categories: CO2, energy, land use, buildings, transport, water, waste, air and environmental governance. The index was [...]
Rio+20: The Aftermath
Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, has come and gone. The global environmental community certainly had high hopes for this event, described as the biggest UN conference ever. With such outsized expectations, some people were bound to be disappointed… and in this case, a great many people felt let down by the conference. [...]