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The home of my blessed Toronto Blue Jays have started a program that, just maybe, might get them closer to their goal of reducing its carbon footprint by 6% by 2012. The program is called “Live Green Toronto,” and with $20 million in its coffers, the program is designed to provide financing to those who [...]
Biofuels have been widely touted as a solution to redressing the world’s overdependence on oil and a significant part to resolving the climatic crisis particularly in the developed world. But according to new report by Oxfam, the fascination with biofuels may not be a solution to either the climatic or oil crisis and is instead [...]
By now, we all know it’s cheaper — and more environmentally friendly — to walk or bike to places than to drive a car or SUV. But is the low-cost, low-impact way always feasible in the motor-happy, open-freeway-obsessed U.S. of A.? That’s what we’ll be exploring this week at EcoLocalizer in a feature we’re calling [...]
The developers of Medina Palms, an eco-friendly residential development, have determined to set eco-standards in Africa and are donating a percentage of its income to the international wildlife charity, Born Free Foundation, to help preserve marine life. Medina Palms also supports a billfish tagging initiative to monitor fish populations in the Indian Ocean by The [...]
