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 Book Review
Earth Inc. – sustainable business thinking that can turn a profit
''Business sustainability? Embed it and forget it.'' This quote is the first line of the new book, Earth Inc. It's the ultimate goal of any really honest corporate sustainability professional – to make sustainability not a continuous ''journey'' but second nature in a company. Author Gregory Unruh argues that there is, in fact, a very definite and known destination for sustainability, and it relates to effective value chain management. more...
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IT
 Panasonic aims to be greenest IT company - sets target for 2018
Panasonic Corporation announced its new midterm management plan that covers the next three years from April 2010 to March 2013. Panasonic President Fumio Ohtsubo unveiled the plan, called GT12 (Green Transformation 2012), that is designed to bolster the Panasonic Group's growth potential — essentially, becoming the number one green innovation company by 2018. more...
 Carbon Management
Partners in Project Green announces Carbon 101 program
Partners in Project Green recently announced the launch of its Carbon 101 Reduction Program. The goal of the program is to assist companies in completing their greenhouse gas (GHG) baselines, identifying reduction strategies, and developing implementation plans. more...
Sustainability Reporting
 Forest industry and environmental groups sign peace pact with new agreement
Earlier this week, 21 member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), and nine leading environmental organizations, unveiled an unprecedented agreement – the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement – that applies to 72 million hectares of public forests licensed to FPAC members. The Agreement, when fully implemented, will conserve significant areas of Canada’s Boreal Forest, protect threatened woodland caribou and provide, according to participants, a competitive market edge for participating companies. more...
Top 3 secrets to weaving sustainability into company DNA
Many business leaders recognize that the true value of sustainability is realized only when sustainability is embedded into their organizations' cultures. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports often describe sustainability as "part of our DNA" or "the way we do business"; however, business leaders lack a clear framework for systematically embedding sustainability into organizational culture. This may be about to change. more...
 Cleantech
Siliken to build a PV module production plant in Ontario, Canada
The plant will generate clean power comparable to a consumption of 19,000 households. more...
Top U.S. auto hybrid researcher moving to Canada
Hybrid vehicle development in Canada has received a huge jolt of propulsion this week. Professor Ali Emadi, a leading U.S. developer of electric powertrain technology, has been appointed Canada Excellence Research Chair in Hybrid Powertrain and will relocate to McMaster University. more...
Solar panel manufacturing company to create 200 jobs in Windsor-Essex
The WindsorEssex Economic Development Corporation (WEEDC), along with the City of Windsor announced that Solar Source Corporation (SSC) will be locating a manufacturing facility in Windsor to produce crystalline silicon Solar PV panels - a further boon to the growing renewables market in Ontario. more...
Linamar, NCB Lohmann form alliance to pursue wind turbine components business
BioteQ receives Syncrude award for Excellence in Sustainable Development
Green Building
LumiSmart set to light up Nordic countries
Cavet Technologies Inc. announced a non-exclusive distribution partnership with Sweden-based Elekrolution to sell the LumiSmart ILC (Intelligent Lighting Controller) in the Nordic region - another big win for the Toronto-based firm. more...
Smartcool starts $1.8 million roll out to European telecom giant
Smartcool Systems Inc. has launched a 1.8 million dollar roll out of its energy efficiency technology into twenty-five Colt facilities in Western Europe. The project is expected to save Colt Telecom an estimated 7,400,000kWh every year resulting in a payback in less than two years enabling Colt to progress its tough reduction targets while providing significant financial returns. more...
Legal and Regulatory News
Ontario's proposed Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act aims to boost clean water tech
As part of its Open Ontario Plan the province is taking steps to make Ontario the leading clean water jurisdiction in North America. The proposed Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act would, if passed, encourage the creation and export of innovative clean water technology, promote water conservation, attract economic development and create jobs. more...
Senators Kerry and Lieberman unveil draft energy and climate change bill
On May 12, 2010, Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman released the initial draft of a comprehensive climate change and clean energy bill, titled the ''American Power Act'' (APA). The 987-page draft bill, which has not been formally introduced in the Senate, is the product of months of negotiations. But will it come to anything? more...
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