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Canada’s Freightzy, Less Emissions partner on carbon offsets
Freightzy, Less Emissions partner on carbon offsets
Shipping solutions provider Freightzy has partnered with Bullfrog Power’s sister company, carbon offsets solutions Less Emissions, to launch an industry-leading carbon-neutral shipping program. The two Guelph-based companies will assist customers in mitigating their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Alberta’s Cielo strives to turn refuse into truck fuel
Alberta company, Cielo Waste Solutions Corp., could make a serious dent in the growing mountains of waste headed to landfills – that is, if its technology for turning refuse into fuel for trucks and planes goes according to plan.
Nature Fresh Farms, UofW’s sustainable shipping
• CTV
Nature Fresh Farms has joined the University of Windsor for its $160,000 long-haul transportation project aimed at developing sustainable and energy-efficient shipping options. The project aspires to determine the impact of long-haul electric vehicles on Ontario’s electric grid.
9 reasons clean fleet adoption is accelerating
• GreenBiz
Gladstein, Neandross and Associates (GNA)’s 2020 report outlines its development of four clean vehicle technologies: drivetrains powered with propane; compressed natural gas; batteries; and hydrogen fuel cells. Authors have proclaimed the year, “a landmark … for the clean fleet industry.”
Johnson Controls launches net-zero buildings service
Johnson Controls, a global leader in building management solutions, launched OpenBlue Net Zero Buildings as a Service to help customers achieve their net-zero ambitions. OpenBlue Net Zero Buildings includes sustainability offerings for schools, campuses, data centers, healthcare facilities and more.
Monica Curtis new president & CEO of EnerQuality
• Newswire
EnerQuality Corporation announced the appointment of Monica Curtis, an industry-recognized energy efficiency champion, as president and CEO. Curtis joins EnerQuality at a time when demand for superior building performance, net-zero development and emerging technologies is creating opportunities for reimagining services.
Insurance companies launch net-zero climate alliance
Eight of the world’s leading insurance companies launched an alliance to help speed up the transition to a net-zero economy. The companies said the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance will help shift underwriting portfolios towards net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The future of wildfires in Canada
The heat wave that gripped the Pacific Northwest last month and set the stage for an outbreak of wildfires was extraordinary relative to the region’s past. It may be the harbinger of the new normal in a climate change-driven future.
Park Place in B.C. strives for sustainability
• urbanYVR
An upcoming development at Park Place in Vancouver will be sustainably constructed with a mass timber structure and passive house certification. The five-storey building, designed by SLA for Bastion Development Corp., will include 48 condominium units and ground-floor retail space.
Ottawa to launch home retrofit program
• CBC
The City of Ottawa is launching a home retrofit program to help owners upgrade older homes to waste less energy. Residential buildings cause more than a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in Ottawa when they heat spaces and water inefficiently.
Halifax plans building retrofit project to reduce energy
• CBC
The Halifax region wants to offer a retrofit program to help reduce energy consumption by 50 per cent. It would be modelled after the municipality’s successful Solar City program. To date, 553 properties have installed solar panels financed through the Halifax Regional Municipality.
N.S. facility receives funding for sustainable retrofits
The Lunenburg County Lifestyle Centre in Bridgewater, N.S. will receive $615,000 from the provincial government for energy-efficiency upgrades to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce operating costs for the centre and allow the arena to continue to operate year-round.
Momentum must be maintained as COP26 is delayed
Due to the postponement of COP26 and the Sustainable Innovation Forum, Climate Action launched its Roadmap to COP26 Digital Event Series, designed to help maintain momentum and drive commitments on climate action from business and governments.
What is “ecocide” and could it be prosecuted?
• GreenBiz
A panel of criminal and environmental lawyers has created a legal definition for “ecocide” to criminalize damage and destruction of ecosystems. NGO Stop Ecocide wants to add environmental damage to the list of international crimes at the International Criminal Court.
Net-zero buildings: Where do we stand?
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development • TreeHugger
The Net-zero buildings: Where do we stand? report uses the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Building System Carbon Framework to examine six whole lifecycle assessment case studies that reveal the challenges and opportunities relating to building carbon footprints.
Far UV-light may sanitize COVID in cities
In this challenging time, people need hope and inspiration for a brighter future. Studio Roosegaarde has created this with its latest project, Urban Sun, which combines art, creativity, architecture and science to clean public spaces of coronavirus — using light.
Vancouver’s Sea2City seeks flood protection measures
Vancouver will be holding the Sea2City design challenge to develop strategies that could be used around False Creek’s inner harbour. Participants will attempt to find ways of accommodating a 50-centimetre rise in water levels by 2050 and a two-metre rise by 2200.
Seawalls could be the answer to rising tides
• GreenBiz
The oceans are rising at an accelerating rate, and millions of people are in the way. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, whose mission includes maintaining waterways and reducing disaster risks, recently proposed building large seawalls to protect the U.S.
Satellites can spy on microplastics
University of Michigan researchers are using NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), a constellation of eight microsatellites developed by the university. The radar images used to gauge the roughness of the ocean’s surface can also detect marine debris.
Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity
• GreenBiz
7.7 gigatons of plastic could end up in landfills, waterways and oceans by 2040. But plastic isn’t the fastest-growing waste the world needs to worry about; electronics are. In response, Closed Loop Partners will be investing to help solve the problem.
Industry Events
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Greenbuild 2024: Built to Scale
Nov 12 2024
to Nov 15 2024
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Sustainable Finance Forum 2024
Nov 28 2024
to Nov 29 2024
Shaw Centre, Ottawa
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