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Plan a backyard campout

Our children are putting at least five hours a day in front of electronic screens but only 15 minutes a day outside. Get the kids communing with nature with an outdoor sleepover party.

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Why a vote for Stephane Dion would be a vote for cleantech Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! The world can be a crazy place, but we do — in the big picture — have much to be thankful for. Enjoy the time with family and friends, and a week of turkey dinner leftovers. Today I’ll just post a link to my Clean Break column, which argues that green-minded Canadians heading [...]

Ballard: a sliver of sunshine on another stormy day Working in the business section of Canada’s largest daily newspaper, I have to say it’s been tough watching the markets. If you think the U.S. has been getting battered, Canada’s commodity-heavy exchanges are getting crushed. So on yet another day that oil sands and potash producers got their teeth knocked out, it was great to [...]

Canadian cleantech news roundup: Stormfisher, AAER, Arise, 5N and Railpower Lots of news to report from the Great White North, where we’ve got a great stable of cleantech companies — even if they are generally underappreciated and underfunded. Speaking of underfunded, I’d just like to highlight that Canadian cleantech companies raised just $49 million (U.S.) in the third quarter. For perspective, U.S. companies raised $1.75 [...]

My name is Bond, Green Bond My Clean Break column today talks about the idea of creating a green bond as a safe investment vehicle for Canadians that at the same time could raise money for large-scale renewable energy projects, enabling infrastructure and building-efficiency projects. The money would be distributed in the form of low-interest debt financing. Given the current credit [...]

Capturing carbon out of thin air?Prof. David Keith, a well-respected climate-change scientist from the University of Calgary, believes it’s possible to design a machine that can snatch carbon dioxide out of ambient air. In fact, he knows it can be done — he has built the machine to do it. Now the challenge is to scale it up and make [...]

Skymeter GPS congestion-toll system gets green light from Cisco Skymeter Corp., a Toronto startup trying to raise the bar on congestion-tolling technology — i.e. “road user charging” — has received high grades after a small pilot project with Cisco Systems in Seoul, Korea. Following a six-month pilot, Cisco named Skymeter its “technical solution partner” for location, time and distance-based road user charging. Cisco has partnered [...]

Turning paint fumes into fuel I had the opportunity last week of visiting Ford Motor Co.’s Oakville assembly plant, where they have just installed a new fumes-to-fuel facility. The facility extracts paint fumes from its auto paint shop and, after filtering and processing the organic volatile compounds, turns them into fuel. That fuel is then reformed and put through a [...]

Talking point: The credit crunch I want to know what readers of Clean Break think about the credit crisis and its impact — existing or potential — on the development and deployment of renewable energy and clean technologies. One could argue it might help, because big-budget nuclear and clean coal projects will have more difficulty raising the money — i.e. debt [...]

New energy minister “jazzed” about new job I have a story in today’s Toronto Star about George Smitherman, new energy and infrastructure minister for Ontario. Last week, Smitherman directed the Ontario Power Authority to review and “fine tune” its 20-year power plan so that it might accelerate conservation goals and increase renewable-energy targets. This story gives a good sense of where Smitherman is [...]

Making home energy audits the law An Ontario legislator, Ottawa-Orleans MPP Phil McNeely, introduced a private members’ bill this week that proposed the creation of the Ontario Home Energy Act, which would require “the preparation of Home Energy Rating Reports with respect to detached and semi-detached homes and low-rise multi-unit residential buildings.” Any building/home owner who makes application for a building permit [...]

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Weekly News Wrap-Up: BikeTrain Wins Tourism Awards and the Safe Cycling Coalition goes to Court

Today's Headlines: Toronto Cyclists Union Survey

Toronto-Niagara BikeTrain wins two Ontario Tourism Awards!

Safe Cycling Coalition hits Court in Bloor Street Reconstruction Lawsuit

Weekly News Wrap-Up: Money for Cycling Groups, Bike Lockers at Keele Subway, The Bloor Bike Brawl, and More

Toronto Community Foundation Gives Money to Toronto Cycling Groups

Today's Headlines: Cycling Groups get Grants, Bikelane News, and Gayla's PhotoBike

Eye Weekly Writes Coherently about Bike Lanes

Bike Lockers being considered for Keele Subway Station

Eye Weekly writes about the "Bloor Bike Brawl"

Today's Headlines: Cyclists Protest Critical Mass Arrest

Sept. 29: Today's Headlines