Eco Oriented Community
For the last three weeks, residents of Beijing have been breathing thick, soupy air so choked with pollutants that it has registered far off the scale of acceptable levels. Yet places like Beijing or New Delhi, India, which has also had extremely unhealthy air quality levels, are far from the only cities to be plagued. [...]
Researchers in Europe are collaborating on a project to develop materials that could eventually make it possible for buildings to produce water in desert environments or harvest sunlight to produce biofuels. The University of Greenwich’s School of Architecture & Construction is poised to use ethical synthetic biology to create “living” materials that could be used to clad buildings [...]
As a new year starts, we often resolve to do things better. Here are five resolutions to try to do some good for yourself and the planet. Make Mondays Meat Free The meat industry generates 1/5 of the man-made greenhouse gases that are accelerating global climate change. It takes 40 calories of fossil fuel energy [...]
In what should be music to the ears of environmental activists, as many as 835 job vacancy advertisements were found online between March and May of 2012 that were strongly linked to supporting a green economy. According to the Labour Market Research Study conducted by Eco Canada, four per cent of workers in the Canadian labour force spent [...]
USUALLY WHEN WE THINK OF recyclable items, we think of plastic bottles, cans and paper, but did you ever think of recycling pantyhose? Here are some things that you never thought of recycling but can. Old Shoes Battered shoes usually get tossed in the trash. Charities and thrift stores don’t want them and you’ll never use them again. [...]
With the establishment of the Green Energy Act in Ontario, energy conservation has been a policy priority. Mandated by the Ontario Energy Board to create a culture of energy efficiency in Ontario, the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has invested over $2.0 billion in energy conservation projects. One of the key successes of this investment in [...]
The Conference Board of Canada came out with a report today that assesses the economic benefits to Ontario of developing offshore wind in the Great Lakes. Here’s my story in the Toronto Star. Specifically, it estimates job creation and the boost to GDP that would occur by developing 2,000 megawatts of offshore wind projects between 2013 and 2016. This, the board [...]
By the end of the year, Ontario will become the first jurisdiction in North America to shut down almost its entire coal fleet. Yesterday, the province announced that its last two large coal units will close before 2014, making more than 99 percent of the province’s electricity generated from non-coal sources. It is a major [...]
Although almost 10 million Canadians (28%) say they are likely to gift new electronics this holiday season, the concept of “out with the old, in with the new” isn’t being closely followed. A recent Samsung Canada survey revealed that many Canadians may not know what to do with their old electronics or e-waste; 1 in 3 respondents [...]
A thermostat regulates the temperature of a system and keeps the system’s temperature at desired setpoint temperature. The device does this by turning heating and cooling devices on and off and regulating air flow of a heat transfer fluid as needed. This maintains the correct temperature. Thermostats may be used to control heating or cooling [...]
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