Archive for March, 2009
Ontario Moving Towards Motor Vehicle Scrappage Program
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009In Ontario Canada the provincial government has raised the issue of a comprehensive motor vehicle scrappage program. With a consumer push towards vehicles offering better fuel economy and retailers offering the best deals in a generation on new vehicles, there will be a continued problem with scrap vehicles. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has spoken of [...]
Sustainable Master Planning?
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009The main goal of an Sustainable Master Planning (SMP) project is to minimize the environmental impact of the development while enhancing human well-being. SMP is a macro analysis on how sustainability affects every aspect of the project. “Buildings are largely over-designed,” Ed Smith, CEO of Cobalt Design and Management Ltd. said during a recent interview [...]
Canadian Attitudes Towards Freshwater Usage and Conservation
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009A new study, the Canadian Water Attitudes Study, has found that 53 per cent of Canadians find freshwater as Canada’s most important natural resource. Much further back were forests at 20 per cent and farmland and agricultural lands at 14 per cent. Also finding their way onto the survey were Canada’s oil energy reserves and [...]
Biogas Proposed As New Clean Energy Source
Friday, March 13th, 2009Terasen Gas is reviewing a total of nine potential projects whose aim is to bring about new clean and renewable biogas production. These proposals include generating biogas from wood destroyed by the pine beetle infestation in Western Canada. With large tracts of forest now dead and dying as a result of the voracious pine beetle, [...]