NEWS: Board named to manage the use of provincial climate change funds in Alberta Blue Source Canada expands with Toronto office Cement companies reduce climate impacts by slowing CO2 emissions growth, new data shows Alberta moves forward on carbon capture projects CaGBC launches GREEN UP Ontario energy conservation policy trails B.C., California: York U study New BOMA BESt certification categories

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FEATURES:

CaGBC intros existing building certification, new construction changes and accreditation updates
By Lenny Talarico and Robert Colman
On August 3rd the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) will launch the second phase of the LEED Canada Initiative: LEED Canada for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance 2009. This is one of many changes to LEED in Canada this year. Later this year, LEED Canada for New Construction and Major Renovations will be updated as well, with new weightings for a variety of elements. Meanwhile, the accreditation process for LEED APs is getting an overhaul as well. more...

Sustainable IT: Earth Rangers LEEDs the way
Earth Rangers is a non-profit organization that teaches hundreds of thousands of children through school and online programs about what they can do to protect the environment. For this reason, it's important to them that their headquarters have as little impact as possible, which is why they've built the Earth Rangers Centre in Woodbridge, Ontario, to a LEED Gold standard. It is now one of the most energy-efficient facilities in Canada, using 79 per cent less energy than similar buildings its size. Recently, they decided to take a step further by upgrading their IT systems with a virtualized environment. Doing so has meant saving about 90 per cent on data centre space and 90 per cent on IT energy use costs. more...

Green IT Guide: Review
As often as we talk about how much greening a company's data centre can save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there aren't that many resources that offer a step-by-step approach to really tackling the issue. Terrabytes Consulting's new online Green IT Guide fills that gap quite successfully. more...

Schulich students give Coca-Cola Canada a passing grade – and plenty of feedback on their CRS report
Last month, Green Business told the story of how Coca-Cola Canada (Coca-Cola Ltd. (CCL) and Coca-Cola Bottling Company (CCB)), after releasing their first joint corporate responsibility and sustainability (CRS) report, gave students at The Schulich School of Business the chance to formally critique it. The students recently came back with their review and raised a number of interesting issues. more...

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REVIEW

Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto
If you're involved in driving sustainability into your organization, you'll understand how hard it can be to get everyone to understand what sustainability really means, and then get them to commit to making it part of their business practice. This shouldn't be the case, but it is. In Adam Werbach's new book, Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto, he insists that sustainability is no longer an optional part of business – it's a question of corporate survival. How you make that a reality is the tough part, and his goal in this book is to tackle that.

To read the full review, click here.
To go straight to an excerpt, click here.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

Climate Change - Legislation, Regulation & Emissions Reporting, September 21, Toronto, Ontario

Ontario Energy Network Luncheon, September 22, Don Drummond, Senior VP and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group

ENEX09: Energy efficiency benefits for the bottom line, September 22-23, Stage West, Mississauga, Ontario

Northeast B.C. Natural Gas Summit, September 30 - October 1, Metropolitan Centre, Calgary, Alberta

Atlantic Canada Power Summit, October 5-6, Delta Brunswick Hotel, Saint John, New Brunswick

Gearing up for a Low Carbon Economy, October 6-7, The Fairmont Palliser Hotel, Calgary

Alberta Power Summit, November 24-25, The Metropolitan Centre, Calgary, Alberta

Check out the Calendar of Events on the Green Business website for more upcoming industry seminars, conferences, shows and training sessions.

Got an event you want us to include on the website? Please send an e-mail to editor Rob Colman: rcolman@clbmedia.ca.