We cover news focused on Canada as well as international topics. Some of the topics we cover include: announcements of a big policy change, new energy-efficiency incentive programs, research into new green building materials being developed, reports about the growth of the green building industry.
The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson, just released the Canada Green Buildings Strategy (CGBS). Focusing on both economics and the environment, the CGBS sets out to help Canadians save on energy bills through green upgrades while […]
The government of Saskatchewan recently filed an application for a court injunction to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from collecting the federal carbon tax from the province. The court just ruled in favour of this application and has blocked the
The federal Government of Canada is planning to reach net-zero emissions by the year 2050. To that end, many provinces are investing heavily in green and clean forms of electricity generation, with Ontario currently being a prime example, particularly as
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) just finalized a financial agreement that sees it committing $100 million in funding to GDI Integrated Facility Services to be invested in a variety of sustainable energy retrofits in aging and old buildings across Canada.
Federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson recently said that Shell Canada’s decision to greenlight their Polaris carbon capture project is likely to just be the beginning of a wave of investment into carbon capture and storage projects. He expects up
The Texas Department of Transportation is now using Pozzoslag green cement, a green cement that replaces 60 percent of Portland cement, to repave it’s interstate highways, on the I-45 from Houston to Conroe and large swaths of the I-2 in
Through the Skills Development Fund (SDF), the government of Ontario is training up to 3,800 apprentices, job seekers, and journeypersons for free. The Ontario government has committed over $3.6 million to provide free training to those who want to become
The Transition Accelerator recently published its Mass Timber Roadmap, developed alongside contributors which include the Energy Futures Lab, the Canadian Wood Council and the Forest Products Association of Canada. This detailed report outlines the strategic vision for the use of
The majority of Canadian apartment building designs look like hotels, with long hallways and staircases at either end. It’s a design that virtually every low and midrise apartment building adheres to, which produces a rather dreary look, but even worse,
The City of Toronto is implementing new embodied carbon caps and cash incentives of up to $5,300 per apartment for builders who limit the amount of embodied carbon within new constructions. With the rising concern about the embodied carbon that
