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QScale building ‘eco friendly’ data centre in Quebec

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QScale says it is on track to complete the first 15 MW phase of its “eco-friendly” high-performance computing campus in Lévis, Que. by December.

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Solar panels have dominated rooftop spaces in urban cities, but is it time to look at wind turbines as an alternative energy source in major cities? One company called PowerNest is incorporating the technology in urban communities.

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Allied Properties is planning a mass timber addition in Vancouver. The existing two-storey concrete structure that originally had three storeys earmarked for concrete construction will instead become a mass timber addition that will run on clean energy.

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Flooding and wildfires around the world have been exacerbating global supply chain issues, experts say. Whether it’s the auto industry or the commodities sector, climate-related disruptions are intensifying as the world warms.

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A food waste app called Too Good to Go that launched in Canada recently is expanding its surplus food network to include Canadian universities and colleges in Quebec City.

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Google announced plans to reduce food waste at its facilities earlier this week, spanning the entire lifecycle of food served at Google. The goal is a part of its commitment to cut food waste in half for each employee and send zero food waste to the landfill by 2025.

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Tomatoes or bags of bread that reach the store several days late, often caused by problems in the supply chain, will likely end up in the trash, a Dalhousie University-led study suggests. As a result, “Duraflation” is becoming a problem.

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Could climate change soon cause more mass relocations? Feeling the impact of climate change, two B.C. flower farmers moved to Nova Scotia, where the threat of a hurricane weighed less than the impact of flood and wildfires and infertile land.

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Target has launched an initiative designed to have 100 per cent of its plastic packaging be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025. They previously built rooftop solar panels to 500 by 2020; now, it’s working toward a 100-per-cent renewable goal.

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Unilever is tabling a waste reduction plan to reuse waste from its manufacturing process by bio-material processing or recycling it and recovering it into new products and materials. The company plans to cut its food waste in half by 2025.

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ECO 2 Magnesia has received $150 million for a low-carbon footprint project that will produce 20,000 tonnes per year of magnesium oxide by 2024. Highly sought after to manufacture firebricks, fertilizers, the operation has the capacity for 60,000 tonnes annually.

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The City of Ottawa‘s Planning Committee has approved a plan to establish new standards for Ottawa developments. In line with the Toronto Green Standard, the program includes three tiers of metrics that would be mandatory for all buildings.

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A recent report from the Rights and Resources Initiative and McGill University suggests many of the carbon sinks targeted by offsetting schemes are in Indigenous lands where rights have not been secured. It’s also impacting groups in Brazil and Africa.

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Carbon Neutral Royalty Ltd. has partnered with Big Blue Ocean Cleanup in a move that will lead to the co-development of carbon sequestration projects in coastal and marine ecosystems. The duo will jointly tackle marine nature reserves.

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Thanks to a couple of engineers, pollution-spewing ships may soon get a whole lot greener. Shipping goods across the seas that make up 90 per cent of global trade could be less harmful to the environment with this innovation.

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In the U.S., demand for passive houses is rising sharply as homeowners contend with climate-driven extreme weather and governments move to decarbonize buildings. Using software tools, airtightness principles and more, one designer is filling the void.

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UBS has announced a plan to cut its financing of fossil fuel emissions by more than two-thirds by 2030, Switzerland’s biggest bank said Friday. It aims for a 71-per-cent cut in oil and gas investments through 2030.

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ACE Green Recycling (ACE) has signed a $12-million deal with India’s Pondy Oxides & Chemicals Ltd. The facility can potentially recycle more than 28 million lead-acid batteries over 10 years and prevent 500 million kg of GHG emissions.

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The European Commission has announced a plan to see the EU cut a huge share of its dependency on Russia by tapping new gas supplies, ramping up reserves for next winter, and accelerating more energy-efficient efforts.

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Fund managers held at least $8.3 billion in Russian assets before President Vladimir Putin launched a war on Ukraine. This, according to figures by Bloomberg which shows that roughly 4,800 ESG funds represent more than $2.3 trillion in total assets.

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