Brockville Climate Action Group

New York Times / Andrew Martin / 07 November 2008

CHICAGO — In new Wal-Mart stores, the baseboards and moldings are made of plastic left over from diaper manufacturing. Chipotle, the burrito chain, has installed an energy-producing wind turbine outside a new store in the Chicago suburbs. And a Florida chain called Pizza Fusion reuses the draft from its ovens to heat water.

Across the country, a race is under way among stores and fast-food restaurants to build environmentally friendly outlets, as a way to curry favor with consumers and to lower operating costs. Most chains are focusing on prototypes at the moment, but the trend could eventually change the look and function of thousands of stores.

CNW Group / Press Release / 30 October 2008

The province is helping Ontario businesses do their part to fight climate change with an enhanced program to green commercial fleets.

Under the four-year, $15-million Green Commercial Vehicle Program, companies can apply for grants to:

- Purchase hybrid and alternative-fuel vehicles
- Retrofit heavy-duty vehicles with anti-idling technologies.

The fuel savings data collected by the program will help encourage more businesses to go green.

BBC News / Lord David Puttnam / 28 October 2008

[...] There is a pressing need to understand how we can draw on the drive of local communities to reduce CO2 emissions.

This means not just focusing on innovation in science and technology but also on the innovative ways communities can work together and with other partners, to deliver tangible solutions to climate change.

CNW Group / Press Release / 23 October 2008

Today, Hubert Labelle, Senior Vice President of Property Management at the Ontario Realty Corporation (ORC) joined Lesley Spinney, Director of Facilities and Business Services Branch at the Ministry of Transportation, Charlie Rate, President of SNCLavalin ProFac and Diana Osler Zortea, President of the Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA) nationally, to celebrate the recognition of the Garden City Tower as winner of the International The Office Building of the Year Award (TOBY) as well as the National Earth Award.

Ajax News Advertiser / Keith Gilligan / 03 October 2008

AJAX -- One of the ironies of the new Ajax fire hall is federal gas tax money was used to make the building more environmentally friendly.

Among the dignitaries on hand last week for the ribbon cutting to officially open the new hall were Ontario environment minister John Gerretsen and Peter Love, the chief energy conservation officer for the province.

National Post / Rene Bruemmer / 23 August 2008

[...] In the face of diminishing profit margins, trucking firms are making their fleets more aerodynamic, putting in generators to cut down on idling costs and installing speed limiters.

Quebec City-based Transport Guilbeault, one of the province's biggest trucking companies, recently reduced the speed of its vehicles, capping maximum speeds at 95 km/h, down from 98 last year, said Marc Cadieux, president of the Association de camionnage du Quebec, the largest trucking association in the province.