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Sifton’s West 5 renewable energy demo site
Sifton’s West 5 renewable energy demo site
• Daily Commercial News • Community Energy Knowledge Action Partnership: Project Description
Sifton Properties’ West 5 development, a 70-acre multi-use community in London, Ontario, has been selected as the demonstration site for the new community net metering model (CNM), a project to explore how a community can work together to generate renewable energy.
Green design for Toronto Downsview development
• Globe and Mail • RENX
Developers Northcrest and Canada Lands Company are releasing a plan for a Toronto project, which will be full of parks and “green corridors”. It will include mass timber buildings, and be light on cars and great at managing stormwater.
Squamish and Whistler tackle embodied carbon
The District of Squamish and the Resort Municipality of Whistler are collaborating on a new project to lower embodied emissions in new construction and develop an Embodied Carbon Guide for B.C. Municipalities.
Getting zero-carbon hot water into U.S. homes
• GreenBiz
Heating water in homes and commercial buildings and producing low-temperature steam in multifamily and industrial facilities are some of the biggest untapped opportunities to slash carbon emissions while cutting energy bills and enabling the expansion of renewable power.
Walmart office is largest mass timber campus in U.S.
Located on approximately 350 acres in Bentonville, Arkansas, the new Walmart Home Office Campus will comprise more than 30 buildings, including office buildings. The campus will use 1.7 million cubic feet of lumber, making it the largest mass timber campus in the U.S.
Inside innovation: Hamilton’s YWCA passive house
The new Putman Family YWCA Multi-use Residential Building (MURB) in Hamilton, Ontario is notable for its design and execution to Passive House standards, demonstrating how stringent energy-saving principles can be achieved in mixed-use buildings.
Is it payback time for passive house?
One of the issues that always comes up when trying to convince people about energy efficiency measures is the payback time: How long will it take for an investment take to pay for itself with energy savings?
Microgrids to move to front line of climate fight
Microgrids are not just a revolution in the U.S., but a reality across the globe, said California Congressman Jimmy Panetta in the keynote speech at Microgrid California, organized by Microgrid Knowledge and held in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Vancouver votes down climate parking plan
• Business In Vancouver • Globe and Mail
Vancouver City Council turned down a motion — dubbed the Climate Emergency Parking Program — to ding high-emitting gas-powered vehicles with an annual pollution charge of up to $1,000 and roll out a citywide residential parking fee.
RAIC will keep pushing climate issues post-election
The federal election has faded into the rearview mirror, but the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada is serving notice that the four priority issues of its RAIC Votes campaign will continue to be the focus of its advocacy efforts.
Canada’s Top Sustainability Award releases list
• Clean 50
The full list of 2022 Clean50 Top Projects was announced by Clean50. Winners include TELUS for its $100 million “Pollinator Fund for Good”, one of the world’s largest corporate impact investment funds, and “Canada’s Hydrogen Strategy”, completed by NRCan.
Carbon footprint of ICT higher than previously thought
What is the climate cost of all our viral videos and group chats? A new study suggests the carbon footprint of Information Communication Technology (ICT) is even higher than previously estimated and will only keep growing if nothing changes.
Skyservice Canada’s 1st SAF provider for aircraft
Skyservice Business Aviation is Canada’s first aviation company to offer sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to its customers, including its first SAF customer, AirSprint. The sustainable fuel will enable customers to reduce their life cycle emissions by 20 per cent.
Is Canada’s 100% EV sales by 2035 target realistic?
PODCAST: Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturer’s Association, talks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about how realistic Canada’s 100 per cent EV sales by 2035 targets are. Listen to the award-winning Down to Business podcast for Canadian business insights.
Self-driving vehicles are back
We used to write often about self-driving cars — or autonomous vehicles — and how they might change how we live. The early consensus was that they would be electric and shared since our cars are parked 94 per cent of the time.
Ozone pollution increasingly threatens biodiversity
Ground-level ozone has long been known to pose a threat to human health. Now, scientists are increasingly understanding how this pollutant damages plants and trees, setting off a cascade of impacts that harms everything from soil microbes to wildlife.
Businesses adapt operations to address climate issues
Many businesses are changing or planning to change their operations to be more energy efficient and to reduce their carbon footprint, especially as they face greater risks from natural disasters, supply chain transparency and grid failures, according to Schneider Electric.
Government regulators slow to implement climate finance rules
Ottawa and regulators have been slow to implement rules for integrating climate objectives into the financial system, and now Canada is forced to catch up with its European allies, says a report on Canada’s progress in meeting sustainable finance goals.
Canada’s weather losses growing at twice the global pace
Weather-inflicted damage is on the rise and in Canada, the cost of that damage is rising faster than most. The pace at which average annual insured weather-related losses are rising in Canada is more than double the global rate.
Canada lags and EU leads in ESG financing arena
Canada is moving slowly in setting the conditions required to transition to a cleaner economy, according to a report by the Institute for Sustainable Finance. Canada has made progress in only one of 15 recommendations made by a panel of experts.
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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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Nov 28 2024
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Shaw Centre, Ottawa
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