It's pretty much business as usual in Ontario, as a new plan is unveiled that basically rounds up existing programs and Acts and gives them all an umbrella to sit under. In his speech from the throne [...]

Leading up to today’s budget announcement, Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean delivered the throne speech yesterday, talking mostly about Canada’s competitiveness in the global marketplace [...]

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is undertaking an extensive work plan in the coming months with regard to energy issues. In October 2009, the Canadian Chamber released Powering Up Canadian Prosperity: [...]

The City of Saint John, New Brunswick, is getting up to $9.8 million from the federal government towards a “green thermal utility.” Total project costs are estimated at $29.8 million and this funding [...]

Last week the City of Portland and Multnomah County jointly passed one of North America's most ambitious Climate Change Action Plan (CAP), which commits the city and county to reducing their overall emissions [...]

The University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design is starting research in the emerging field of life cycle assessment (LCA)—a concept discussed often in our magazine. Dr. Getachew Assefa [...]

Thanks to the upcoming Olympics, Whistler, B.C., has scored Canada’s first authentic passivhaus. ReNew Canada’s editor, Mira Shenker, toured some of these houses in the Netherlands and found out first-hand [...]

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) are partnering with EQuilibrium Communities to provide support, including funding (up to $550,000 per project) to private [...]

Proof that sometimes disincentives work better than incentives: Ontario's recent implementation of a five cent charge for plastic shopping bags is creating a change in consumer behaviour. Plastic bag use [...]

The pre-launch materials for the World Bank's new Eco2 Cities program just came in. "Eco2" is the term they are using for cities that have (stop me if you've heard this before) harnessed the synergies [...]