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Sobeys to eliminate plastic bags from its stores in 2020

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It’s back to the future for Canadian grocer Sobeys Inc., which will eliminate plastic bags from its stores by the end of January 2020. The company says it will take 225 million bags per year out of circulation from Sobeys’ 255 Canadian stores.

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Saving the seas from plastic waste may mean the end for hotel room mini bottles of shampoo and other toiletries. Holiday Inn and InterContinental Hotels is switching to bulk-size bathroom amenities as part of an effort to cut waste.

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Cortel Group’s three-tower, 830-unit condo complex isn’t like the standard green-ish glass towers constructed in Toronto in recent years. The project, designed by Quadrangle, will feature smaller windows, more exterior metal panels and a staggered array of hexagon-shaped balconies.

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Nicole Yip charges her electric car at public stations, but if she had the choice, she wouldn’t.  Yip got a Tesla Model 3 two months ago. It came sooner than expected and she hadn’t arranged for a place to charge it.

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Sheridan College’s Hazel McCallion Campus project manager Katherine Rinas praised the work of the designers at a June event but said two years after project completion it was way off original energy targets due to a leaky building envelope.

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Ottawa’s Carleton University will use $3.5 million from Natural Resources Canada and an additional $2.1 million from the Ontario Research Fund to conduct research on how to reduce new and existing buildings’ greenhouse gas emissions through improved insulation.

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A three-building residential development in Guelph, Ont. has achieved BuiltGreen Gold certification, after successfully completing the program’s audit process in June, the first high-density project to do so in Ontario. BuiltGreen is a program popular in Western Canada.

 

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The Ontario government is investing $5 million in a new cross-laminated timber facility in St. Thomas which will be one of North America’s first fully automated plants. Element5, a $32-million facility, will support the forestry sector’s 150,000 direct and indirect jobs.

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Mudgirls Collective builds traditional cob homes for clients, though they prefer their clients’ participation, so they learn how to maintain the home for themselves.  They are made by hand, mostly from a muddy blend of local clay, sand and straw.

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Rows of luxurious Audis hide from the sun under a canopy of solar panels on the north edge of Calgary. The 933 solar panels on this lot produce 306,000-kilowatt-hours of power and also protect the cars from the frequent hail storms.

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A Calgary-based oil and gas company operating in Swan Hills could be among the first in Canada to use geothermal heat as a source of power. Razor Energy is working to capture heat from hot water reservoirs on its site to turn into electricity.

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The Alberta government has ripped up two years of work by the arm’s-length body that oversees Alberta’s electricity market and announced it is moving to an ‘energy-only’ market. What the heck is an energy-only market?

BOMA

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Suffield Solar and Direct Energy have signed a long-term agreement to purchase all electrical output and associated capacity from the Suffield facility. It will power approximately 7,400 households annually once it enters operation in 2020.

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The Tahltan First Nation, whose territory includes some of the most resource-rich lands in B.C., is now an equity owner in three hydro-electric facilities valued at over $2.5 billion, the largest clean energy investment by a First Nation in B.C.

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Sustainable development experts think the Great Lakes region is in the best position to become the first fully self-sufficient region in the world. Just north of Detroit there is an eight-acre plot of land called the Michigan Urban Farming Initiative.

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Moody’s Corp. has purchased a controlling stake in Four Twenty Seven, a firm that measures the physical risks of climate change, the latest indication that global warming can threaten the creditworthiness of governments and companies around the world.

BOMA

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Fortress Mountain Resort wants to change its water licence to allow it to sell a portion for commercial use, but a conservation group is against it. Fortress is currently allowed more than 98 million litres of water for food preparation.

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A long-awaited request for proposals asks firms to bid on the right to do an “engineering analysis and feasibility assessment of potential solutions” to protect the low-lying, 20-kilometre band of land between Amherst, N.S., and Sackville, N.B.

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Government geoscientist Gavin Manson has developed fresh coastline maps showing where flooding and erosion caused by climate change are likely to inflict maximum damage this century. The map combines six factors to create visual ratings on the three oceans.

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Indonesia’s president wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-lying capital from sinking under the sea, lending renewed backing and a sense of urgency to a slow-moving, contested mega project.

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