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German Bank Reduces Investment Risk With $130 Billion for Renewable Energy

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:37:12 +0000

Oct 26, 2011 (link to original Germany Info Article)

Germany’s federally-owned KfW banking group is facilitating renewable energy and energy efficiency investments in Germany with 100 billion euros (over $130 billion) over the next five years.

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2012 Clean50 Announced

drichardson — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:26:58 +0000

Toronto, ON – The 2012 Clean50 honourees were announced today by Delta Management and Corporate Knights Magazine. The Clean50 is a list of fifty people in Canada whose career achievements focused on sustainability. The honourees are divided into 16 categories ranging from advocacy to R&D and consulting services. For a complete list of the 2012 honorees, [...]

Henry Vehovec to Teach Global Energy Systems Course at UofT

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:09:54 +0000

Toronto, ON – August 30, 2011 - Mindfirst President, Henry Vehovec, will teach a course as Session Lecturer at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering this fall. The Master’s level course, APS 510 Innovative Technologies and Organizations in [...]

UofT CGEN Group awarded Gates Foundation grant

Editor — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:40:32 +0000

TORONTO— From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail, Published Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2011 8:30AM EDT Article by KIM MACKRAEL

The project sounds simple enough: design a new toilet for use in developing countries, where access to running water, electricity and sewage is limited.

But the details are daunting. The human waste needs to be processed and sanitized, and it [...]

Why sustainability is winning over CEOs

drichardson — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:24:20 +0000

By Duane Stanford, Bloomberg April 4, 2011

At PepsiCo’s (PEP) Walkers potato chip plant in Leicester, England, steam from the fryers rises through exhaust stacks into the open sky. From his office window, Martyn Seal, the company’s European director of sustainability, watches the wispy clouds and sees nothing but lost resources and wasted cash. To [...]

Sustainability reporting: most complete guidance ever

drichardson — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:38:29 +0000

The most comprehensive and complete sustainability reporting guidance is now available, as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) launches its G3.1 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines today (23 March 2011).

GRI is a network-based non-governmental organization that aims to make sustainability reporting common practice. GRI produces the world’s most widely used Sustainability Reporting Guidelines to enable the [...]

Red flags on green energy

drichardson — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:32:40 +0000

February 17, 2011- Toronto, ON. This is an interesting article on the environmental effects of green energy by Dr. Jatin Nathwani from the University of Waterloo.

At this point, there should be no debate that a transition to a sustainable electricity system is a necessary development for Ontario. However, this is likely where any [...]

Energy giants take aim at renewables

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:20:23 +0000

January 3, 2011 – Toronto, ON, Globe and Mail Article by Richard Blackwell

Several of Canada’s largest energy and resource companies are quietly staking out positions in a sector that seems at odds with their usual extractive activities: the renewable power business.

Oil sands, pipeline and coal-power [...]

Group Managing USD $15 Trillion Issues Press Release re. Climate Change

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:37:29 +0000

Toronto, Ontario – (December 1, 2010) written in collaboration with Nate Habermeyer from Evergreen, a national charity that brings nature back to cities.

World leaders and policy makers meet in Cancun this week for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP16 as it’s colliquially known. [...]

Canada and the Cleantech 100

drichardson — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:10:26 +0000

Toronto, October 26, 2010 – Two weeks ago the Cleantech Group, an American research and investment company focused on clean technology, released its list of the 100 most promising clean technology companies in the world (cleantech.com/GlobalCleantech100.cfm). North America placed a whopping 57 countries on the list; however, only two of those 57 companies [...]