Greening Your Home Has Many Benefits
By GreenCompany | March 9, 2011
Greening our homes and making them more environmentally friendly has many benefits. Obviously the environmental part of it but increasingly also the resale values maximize after greening our homes. More and more home shoppers are looking for homes already made more environmentally friendly.
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Rooftop Solar Panels
By admin | March 4, 2011
In every city and large town are many large privately owned buildings with unused rooftop space. Endura Energy is tapping into that by placing solar panels on these open spaces. In Richmond Hill, Ontario, they have begun installing the first commercial scale rooftop solar panel installation in the province.
The 100 kW solar panel system was constructed with the Ontario Power Authority’s program titled – Feed-in-Tariff or FIT. This installation will provide some 110,000 kWh of environmentally friendly electrical energy each and every year. The greenhouse gas emissions saved are estimated at 85 tonnes annually. But not only that, the green energy created will be feed back into the local grid.
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Greening Up Waste Removal
By GreenCompany | February 25, 2011
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The city of Vancouver and the surrounding areas are going to benefit from a new fleet of cleaner running natural gas trucks tasked with cleaning up and removing waste from the the city. Waste Management has teamed up with Terasen Gas to bring to the streets of Vancouver twenty new cleaner operating trucks to remove residential and commercial waste and garbage from the Greater Vancouver area.
Green Company Canada has highlighted Waste Management before for their green initiatives and the company has shown again that they are not only serious about removing garbage and unwanted waste from our cities, but that they are also serious at greening their efforts while doing it. Waste Management’s aim is to have 100 hundred waste and recycling trucks running on cleaner burning CNG – compressed natural gas.
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Recycling Our Electronics
By GreenCompany | February 7, 2011
We here at Green Company Canada get many emails asking about locations for recycling used electronics, and which items can be recycled. This seems to be both easy and hard – and it all depends on where you live. Large cities have many options for people looking to drop off electronic items for recycling and/or further use. These are usually easy to locate using the local yellow pages or directory. Small towns and population centers on the other hand are sometimes really lacking in recycling options.
Consumers should be aware that once done with an electronic product it should be destined for recycling, reuse or refurbishment. The electronic products that we use in our daily lives contain many elements that are highly toxic for the environment. Recycling electronics keeps these toxins from entering our environment and landfills.
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Teaching Children About The Environment
By GreenCompany | November 15, 2010
How can you help your children to understand the immense potential of renewable resources and being green while your child’s desire to have fun remains intact? Experiment kits, allow your children to build the project of their choosing while learning about the environment in a way that is both fun and educational. Some kits facilitate and instruct on building a prototype eco-house with modern installations all of which are powered by renewable sources of energy, while others focus on other related subjects. These experiment kits, which range from a basic science for a toddler to advance concepts of physics for a higher school teenagers are mainly based on theme of sustainability. These equipments help your child to respect the environment while still having fun.
The easy to build kits produced by companies like Thames and Cosmos, introduce children to ideas around renewable energy. For instance, the powerhouse kit is prototype models with complete fittings of renewable sources like solar panels, wind turbine, greenhouse and desalination arrangement.
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