Submit Your Green Company Profile
By admin | November 22, 2011
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Upper Canada Organic Products, Inc.
By GreenCompany | November 25, 2011
This month’s Green Company Profile features Upper Canada Organic Products Inc. from Toronto Ontario. Upper Canada Organic Products has been doing business since 2002 and specializes in two distinct areas – pest control products and grease and lubrication products.
Upper Canada Organic Products offers their pest control products throughout Canada and they are mainly sold through pest control companies, lawn care and garden centers. One product line called The Bed Moat is sold throughout North America and Europe. The grease and lubrication line, called Pro One is sold throughout the province of Ontario.
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First Nissan LEAF
By GreenCompany | September 25, 2011
CNW Group/Nissan Canada Inc.
The first Nissan LEAF electric vehicle has been delivered after making its long-awaited debut in the Canadian market. Ricardo Borba was the lucky recipient, and to much fanfare which included Nissan Canada President Allen Childs personally delivering the first vehicle to the Ottawa dealership.
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Do It Yourself Electric Vehicle
By GreenCompany | August 19, 2011
What would it take to build you own electric vehicle? If you are the type who is really comfortable around mechanical things and love to get your hands dirty, creating your own EV is not very hard. And for the first-timer and part-time tinkerer there are now so many resources available in terms of parts and supplies. The aftermarket automotive industry catering to electric vehicles has grown leaps and bounds. Finding inexpensive and easy to use conversion components for your car is getting easier each year with so many companies now getting into the field.
So where to start? This may be the hardest part of all. You have to ask yourself what type of platform you want to start with – purpose built or a conversion of an existing vehicle. A purpose built electric vehicle platform can be self created (which could be very expensive and time-consuming with no guarantee of results), or purchased as an existing electric drive vehicle platform. One cool EV platform we found was the TREXA lithium-drive platform. Their platforms are now making their way into the hands of manufacturers and early next year can be had by the DIY crowd. The cost according a TREXA press release is $16K – which would mean about a $25-30K final cost for the vehicle. This is where conversion kits can be a better choice – price.
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What Happened To Less Packaging?
By GreenCompany | August 14, 2011
I very well could be dating myself with this article but I cannot help but remember during the late 80′s and early 90′s there was a push on in North America to reduce the amount of material that was being used in packaging. This was coupled with the first residential recycling programs and initially it seemed consumers and manufacturers were both on board with reducing and recycling packaging materials. There was a reduction in the use of plastics and other non-recyclable material (at the time) and it was noticeable in the amount of trash going to the local landfills.
So what happened? Anyone who has purchased non-green advertised items must notice the amount of packaging materials being used on consumer goods these days. Does everything really need to be individually wrapped in a plastic bag? Is there no other material available than styrofoam for packaging – especially where recycling facilities do not exist for such materials?
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