Some lenders are taking a stand on practices like mining and deforestation that may be risky to their reputations.

Teaching green ideals
Calgary Herald
"This is also going to have watt meters measuring how much energy appliances (in school) are using -- as well as 'phantom energy,' which are things that are ...

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Green focus seen for airport land
Edmonton Journal
Sweco has worked on "sustainable city" projects around the world, including China, Russia, South Africa and the Toronto waterfront. ...
Plans taking shape for airport redevelopmentEdmonton Sun
Partnership pitches airport conceptMetro Canada - Edmonton

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Energy efficiency has taken a back seat in the debate on how to reduce use of fossil fuels, partly because of the difficulty of talking about efficiency concretely.

Exelon, which recently backed away from building new nuclear plants, announced that it was buying John Deere Renewables.

Globe and Mail
High energy prices make Copenhagen green
Globe and Mail
There is certainly much to be said for Denmark's leadership in green energy. While North American carbon emissions have risen by around 30 per cent since ...

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Drilling for shale gas unearths environmental risks, Ottawa warned
Winnipeg Free Press
"It's being promoted as environmentally clean energy and sort of a transitional fuel into the future to help with global climate change, and I don't think ...

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OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N. panel of climate scientists will look at the costs of "second best" ways of fighting global warming amid doubts that all countries will sign up to U.N.-led action, a leading expert said on Tuesday.

Rate hikes a must for reliable, green energy, Ontario energy minister says
Ottawa Citizen
Critics have accused the Liberal government of vastly overpaying producers of solar, wind and other forms of green energy, who can earn as much as 80 cents ...
Transcript of Interview with Ontario Energy Minister Brad DuguidOttawa Citizen
North ripe for energy initiativesTimmins Daily Press

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MPs' summer travel left big carbon footprint
Montreal Gazette
... curb its impact on the environment, says Matthew Bramley, director of the climate-change program at the Pembina Institute, an environmental think-tank. ...

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Swarms of turbines could tap energy from Gulf Stream

Saving the green
Calgary Herald
More than 17 per cent of the energy consumed in Canada is used to run our homes. Buying an energy-efficient home or making energy-saving renovations can ...
Home's eco-footprint a consideration when buyingCalgary Herald

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Homes go green with a smaller carbon footprint
Edmonton Journal
In fact, the homes' water and energy efficiencies, their construction with renewable materials and a sympathetic site treatment qualified them for a ...

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Globe and Mail
On the bright side, the PM did say 'climate change'
Globe and Mail
Not so in Canada. Here, a prime minister spends a week in an area most obviously affected by climate change and, rather than using the occasion to speak to ...
Canada stakes a claim to Arctic power, influenceEdmonton Journal
Warming shotNorth Shore News
No politics please, we're nation-building: PMMetro Canada - Toronto

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Boston Globe
How the Stimulus Is Changing America
TIME
The "fun stuff," about one-sixth of the total cost, is an all-out effort to exploit the crisis to make green energy, green building and green transportation ...
Clean Energy Technologies Dominate Obama's View of InnovationScience Now
Biden pushes green spending projects in grim economyWashington Examiner
CNN's Velshi Gushes Over Obama Administration's Green Energy PushNewsBusters (blog)
EarthTechling (blog) -EcoSeed (blog) -Business Green
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Bill Gates lays out a path toward a clean-energy future, with sustained money for innovation a core need.

New York Times (blog)
Good Intentions, Bad Policy
New York Times (blog)
Well-designed policies, like a congestion tax or carbon tax, can reduce social problems by getting the right sort of behavioral response; interventions that ...

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ABC Online
Aussie politics a lesson in climate policy risks
Calgary Herald
... a review by Professor Ross Garnaut (equivalent to the review by Sir Nicolas Stern for the UK government), and developing cap-and-trade legislation. ...
Australian Independents Huddle as Vote Remains DeadlockedNew York Times
Australian Boomerang Another big spending center-left party loses its majority.Wall Street Journal
Australia Vote Leads to Political LimboNewsHour

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2009 fell 1.3 percent to 31.3 billion tonnes in the first year-on-year decline in this decade, German renewable energy institute IWR said on Friday.

CBC.ca
Quebec's golden energy
Montreal Gazette
Not only are we a supplier but we are an ally and a safe supplier, a reliable supplier of clean energy which we all know, in this environment, ...
Hydro Quebec and Vermont sign $2 billion pactCTV.ca
Vermont to buy power from Quebec for 26 yearsReuters
Vt., Quebec announce details of power dealBusinessWeek
MarketWatch (press release) -Barre Montpelier Times Argus -Canada.com
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