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Photo: Google Maps Loblaw Couldn’t Resist Ontario’s Generous Feed-in Tariff? Loblaw is announcing today that it will put solar panels on the roof of 4 supermarkets in a pilot program, with the ultimate goal of installing solar arrays on...
Photo: Flickr , CC “Different Gears – Same Destination” Cyclists too have conferences. The European Cyclists’ Federation, the City of Frederiksberg, and the City of Copenhagen are inviting us to Velo-City Global 2010 (a wordplay...
Images: Loxolop Inspired by origami and biomorphism, Dutch artist Ebére Groenouwe created the Loxolop hanging lamp. Made of waste paper from a juice-carton factory (which means it’s readily recyclable), the Loxolop ships in a tidy little package,...
Image credit: Fashioning Tech It’s well known by now that much of the action at the failed climate talks in Copenhagen happened outside the convention center. From clashes with police to activists being banned from talks , some of the action...
We have not had any snow yet in Toronto, so I have not yet had to complain this year about the traditional use of bike lanes for snow storage. Over in Copenhagen, Mikael at Copenhagenize shows how it should be done, with dedicated machines called snow...
Well the emission reduction pledges are in and things are more or less as we left them in Copenhagen some six weeks ago. We may have what UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called an ” essential first step ” towards a greater legally-binding...
Photo via FBUSD As you’re likely aware, the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen ended with a whimper–in lieu of any binding agreement, nations signed onto the Copenhagen Accord. Which basically meant signing a statement of intent–and nations...
With ten days to go before countries have to submit their plans for reducing emissions and signing onto the thoroughly non-binding, it was the best we could do, trust us, Copenhagen Accord , none of the world’s major economies have actually done...


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