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How to spot the six sins of greenwashing

Though it has a clean and pleasant ring to it, “greenwashing” is anything but! The Oxford Dictionary added its definition in 1999: Disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image.
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Celebrate Buy Nothing Day (no purchase necessary)

Are you tired of the holiday hype already? Why not try a buying-fast? Join environmentalists and concerned citizens from over 65 countries for the annual Buy Nothing Day.
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Five green companies that shine

With a growing trend of companies developing green products and engaging in earth-friendly habits, there are five that outshine the rest with their unique goodies.
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Tyler Hamilton blogs about trends, happenings and innovations in the clean technology market.
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Canadian cleantech news roundup: Stormfisher, AAER, Arise, 5N and RailpowerLots 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 BondMy 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 CiscoSkymeter 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 fuelI 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 crunchI 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 jobI 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 lawAn 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 [...]
Vehicle-to-grid innovator gets scooped up by GridPointArlington, Virg.-based GridPoint Inc., a leading smart grid platform developer, has acquired a small Seattle company called V2Green, which is leading the charge — excuse the pun — toward grid-vehicle interaction as electric-car development gathers momentum. Basically V2Green has “smart charge” software that will synchronize the charging of electric vehicles that connect to the grid, [...]
Giving the grid power “controllability”Both in Canada and the United States there’s increasing talk of adding “smarts” to the grid and investing in infrastructure modernization and expansion. Google’s and GE’s plan to collaborate on smart grid development is just the latest example. After two decades or more of underinvestment this is a good thing, because if we truly want [...]

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