Tag: Ontario - Page 3
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Aiming for 300 Million Negawatts: Ontario to Announce Energy Efficiency Program for Big Industry
Photo: Flickr, CC Energy Efficiency Makes Everything Else Easier Repeat after me: Energy efficiency might not be sexy, but it's crucially important. Whatever we do, squeezing more utility out of each unit of energy is a good thing, and it makes it
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Just What We Needed Dept: The Buddy Desk
My biggest fear when riding my bike has always been getting right hooked by some lady in an SUV on a cellphone. I don't have to worry as much about that any more; as of today where I live in Ontario, Canada, texting or holding a cellphone to your ear
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Bill Lishman's Underground Dome Home
Readers may remember Fly Away Home, the film starring Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin that was based on William Lishman's flights with birds. The script stuck pretty close to Lishman's life, and even included the round
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Ontario Will Launch a Wind Forecasting Service in 2010 to Help Wind Power Producers
It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but... The more wind power you have hooked up to the grid, the more important it is to have a good wind forecasting mechanism in place. The government of Ontario has decided to give a hand
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Happy Simcoe Day, Ontario: A Holiday Celebrating a Great Planner
It is a statutory holiday in most of Canada today, usually called something banal like "civic holiday"; it is simply a way to give Canadians an extra long weekend in our extra-short summers. In Toronto, they call it Simcoe Day, in honour of John Graves
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Local Food Movement Breaks Up Ontario Grocery Franchises
Big grocery chain owners customarily mandate store managers order stock from national suppliers, under contract to the franchise owner. Customers keep asking for local produce and
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Should Governments Offer Incentives for Electric Cars?
Mike recently reported that Ontario will Offer up to $10,000 in Incentives for Plug-In Hybrids and Battery Electric Cars. The Canadian province gets most of its energy from hydro and nukes and only about 30% from coal. But Is an electric car really
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Ontario to Offer up to $10,000 in Incentives for Plug-In Hybrids and Battery Electric Cars
Photo: Flickr, CC Also Green License Plates that Allow Access to HOV Lanes The government of Ontario is announcing some pretty substantial incentives for EVs today. Premier Dalton McGuinty said that people who purchase a plug-in hybrid or battery
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Water Powered Lift Lock is an Engineering Marvel
It took 84 years to finish the Trent-Severn waterway that connects Lake Ontario to Lake Huron; it may have made sense in 1833 when it was started but by its completion the railways were dominant, the locks were too small and the trip took too
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Refillable Bottles for Better Tasting Milk and Beer
We have suggested before that there should be deposits on everything; there aren't, but at least where I live I can drink both beer and milk from refilled glass containers. In the Now Magazine Earth Day Edition, Paul Terefenko looks at both beer and
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Greenpeace Anti-Nuke "Anti-radiation Pill" Campaign Backfires
There are many in the environmental movement who think that nuclear power has a role to play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions; Greenpeace in Canada is not among them. They are doing their best to convince residents of Toronto that it is not safe to
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Ontario Proposes Massive Renewable Energy Boost With New Feed-In Tariff Program
Renewable energy in Ontario could get a massive financial boost with newly proposed feed-in tariff rates. Though Ontario has had feed-in tariffs for about two years, the project size was capped at 10 MW, under the newly proposed rates that cap is lifted
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Creative Food Economy Emerges in Ontario
In North America the food economy has long been dominated by commodities. A big part of the sustainable and local food movement is a direct response
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Ontario Premier Says No to NIMBY
Bravo to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty for taking a stand against NIMBY Scarberians who are objecting to the idea of a wind farm two to four kilometers off the Scarborough Bluffs, a deteriorating sandy hill overlooking Lake Ontario. Energy Minister
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David Suzuki and Bruce Mau Behind New Eco-Boutique in Toronto
Looking for beeswax crayons for the kids? Or perhaps you're in need of unique note cards printed on recycled paper with soy ink? If your dream store carries nothing
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Pickup Pal Banned In Ontario
Pickup Pal operates in 104 countries, "facilitating ridesharing for hundreds of thousands of people." Its objectives "are to reduce carbon emissions, combat road traffic congestion, fight high gas prices and enable people to connect and improve the
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Checking Out A Green Cheese Factory: Fifth Town Artisan Cheese
While testing a Ford Hybrid I packed up the family for a trip to bucolic Prince Edward County to check out Fifth Town Artisan Cheese and its LEED Platinum certified factory designed by Francis Lapointe. But not only was the
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Used Book Sale Supports OCAD Environmental Essays
The OCAD Student Press will be holding a Used Book Sale, Sunday November 2, 2008 at the Gladstone Hotel to raise money for their upcoming publication Shift Perspective - a collection of student essays, many of which
