Cool Block promotes over one hundred actions that can help make households, neighborhoods and entire cities more sustainable. It has been saving 20 billion pounds (9.07 million me…
In 2021, Google introduced a feature in Google Maps to help drivers lower their greenhouse gas emissions through their route choices. As a result, between the feature’s launch in …
According to Second Harvest, almost 60% (35.5 million metric tonnes) of food produced in Canada is wasted annually. Roughly 32% (1.2 million tonnes) is still edible. This app info…
Chicago was the first U.S. city to require building owners to prominently post a building’s energy performance rating, and to share that that rating with potential buyers and/or r…
To meet global greenhouse gas targets, we will need to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, not just slow down emissions. Carbon Cure was designed to promote a shift i…
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Have you heard of the Turn It Off campaign? The project aimed to reduce car idling at school drop-off zones and transit “Kiss and Ride” parking lots across Toronto. This…
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About a year ago, on January 25, 2024, volunteers stumbled upon a multitude of dead and dying monarch butterflies that were scattered across the lawn of a private prope…
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I thought I had heard it all when it came to food waste. But Mill Industries, an American climate-tech company working on waste prevention, proved me wrong. They have c…
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In the 1990s, Iceland faced a national epidemic of teen substance abuse. In 1998, 42% of Icelandic 15- and 16-year-olds reported having been drunk in the last month. Nea…
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The clean energy transition is gaining momentum in the United States, with billions in state and federal incentives being applied to electric vehicles, building retrofi…
