Research and Links
Videos
Accounting for Sustainability
This short video is featured as part of the Prince Charles’ Accounting for Sustainability Project
www.youtube.com/user/ThePrincesA4S
Carbon Hunters
The factual and understandable presentation of the carbon market and cap & trade
www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/Doc_Zone/1242299559/ID=1343651361
or
www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/carbonhunters/
Climate change and the weather we are experiencing…is there a connection. You be the judge in this article by 350.org founder Bill McKibben put to video images.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhCY-3XnqS0
HOME – Internationally renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand makes his feature directorial debut with this environmentally conscious documentary produced by Luc Besson, and narrated by Glenn Close. Shot in 54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days, Home presents the many wonders of planet Earth from an entirely aerial perspective
www.youtube.com/movie?v=jqxENMKaeCU
Information and fact-based site links
All of these sites have been referred to RCI or discovered by RCI, and yes, we subscribe to newsletters from each site.
Amendment 11 to the Energy Efficiency Regulations was published on October 12, 2011 in the Canada Gazette, Part II and comes into force six months after publication, on April 12, 2012. This is the second of three planned amendments to the Energy Efficiency Regulations to deliver energy, greenhouse gas and air pollutant reductions as part of Canada’s Clean Air Regulatory Agenda.
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2011/2011-10-12/html/sor-dors182-eng.html
Toronto Atmospheric Fund TAF is celebrating 20 years of clean air and climate solutions. Over the past two decades, TAF has been involved in numerous successful ventures to help improve air quality and to reduce the climate footprint and energy costs of Toronto.
http://www.toronto.ca/taf/towerwise.htm
Environmental Leader is the leading daily trade publication keeping corporate executives fully informed about energy, environmental and sustainability news.
www.environmentalleader.com
Think Progress is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization. Through this blog, CAPAF seeks to provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies.
www.thinkprogress.org
The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) works at the heart of Ontario’s power system, connecting all participants – generators that produce electricity, transmitters that send it across the province, retailers that buy and sell it, industries and businesses that use it in large quantities and local distribution companies that deliver it to people’s homes.
www.ieso.ca
The Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) is a province-wide, member-based, non-profit organization representing approximately 200 organizations and individuals including private citizens, cooperatives, farmers, First Nations, businesses, institutions and municipalities. OSEA members are engaged in or supporting Community Power projects and renewable energy.
www.ontario-sea.org
The Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation (CIPEC) is a partnership between private industry and the federal Government and aims to promote and improve Canada’s industrial energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from energy use in the industrial sector.
http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/industrial/cipec.cfm?attr=24
BizEnergy.ca helps your business save energy and money with cutting-edge resources, tools, articles and tips from industry experts. The site is not-for-profit and supported by Enbridge Gas and the Ontario Restaurant Hotel Motel Association or ORHMA.
http://www.bizenergy.ca/
Higher Energy Prices aren’t all bad…
Rising energy prices are rarely greeted as harbingers of good news. In the United States, the almost universal reaction to high oil prices has been negative. This, along with sustained pressure on electricity rates, apparently leaves little to celebrate.
http://www.sustainableplant.com/2011/08/higher-energy-prices-aren-t-all-bad/
Canadian companies, once leery of the costs and headaches of dealing with it, now realize that climate change may provide a significant business opportunity.http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/canadian-firms-warming-to-climate-change-measures/article2197896/