First Solar Powered Billboards
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Though a single billboard doesn’t have substantial impact on the environment, combined with millions of other billboards throughout the world, the impact can at least not be overlooked. The emission of carbon & the quantity of garbage it contributes after the advert campaigning is over alarming. The use of energy efficient LED instead of halogen [...]
Half of Canadians Aged 18 to 24 Litter
Monday, August 24th, 2009Litter, you see it everywhere you go. Unless someone takes the time to clean it up, litter will begin to really pile up. And with one out of every three Canadian citizens admitting to littering, there is always ample amounts of litter needing cleaning. Worse still, young Canadians it seems are more prone to littering [...]
Eco-Cites of the Future – Today
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Imagine for a second a city with all zero-emission vehicles, and all the infrastructure installations powered with renewable energy sources. Soon this will no more be a daydream. Futuristic technology has put a hint of these possibilities on the near horizon and many industrialized countries have initiated these kind of mega projects – creating a [...]
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 [...]