The Million Dollar Energy Challenge
Friday, April 1st, 2011No this isn’t some weird green April Fool’s joke, Sears Canada is really extending a million dollar energy challenge. Meant to provide more sustainable ways for Canadians to save energy and help the environment while doing it. Hot on the heels of the past weekend where some ten million Canadians turned out the lights in [...]
Teaching Children About The Environment
Monday, November 15th, 2010How 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 [...]
Debate Over Wind Farms
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Statistics reveal that the UK alone hosts 40 percent of Europe’s total wind energy. It has been contributing merely 0.5 percent of the country’s demand; a very small amount as compared to its actual potential. The proposed construction of a wind farm in Saddleworth Moor is facing strong opposition from eco-activists. They claim that the [...]
Wind Power Generation Continues To Grow
Saturday, December 12th, 2009Wind power technology has raced so far into the future that wind farms are now being slated for vast expanses of privately owned land throughout the Midwest United States, the prairies in Canada and now even offshore near the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia. Existing wind farms in China and other nations show that [...]
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, [...]
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