Ontario

Against the wishes of the federal government, Quebec and Ontario have signed a cap-and-trade deal between the two provinces.

Newten Home Comfort Inc. announced today that it is offsetting its carbon emissions with Carbonfund.org, one of the country’s leading carbon offset organizations.

A high performance and sustainable home is being built in Burlington Ontario by Branthaven Homes. Imber Akse House, currently under construction, is the dream of Barry Imber and Leslie Akse and should be completed late in 2008. Imberaksehouse.ca is a support website/blog that is designed to assist and encourage consumers to make informed decisions toward change.

For all you fans of the CFL out there, we sure were treated to a great game on Sunday! For anyone out there that happened to miss the game or didn't know, the Saskatchewan Roughriders won by the slim margin of 23-19. A great game with highs and lows for both teams, but what was the Green Drive all about?

One untapped renewable resource is wind power on the Great Lakes. A Canadian-government commissioned study in 2005 showed thatthere's enough wind on the Great Lakes to generate up to 47,000 megawatts of electricity. That's almost five times the capacity of Ontario's aging nuclear stations.

In preparation for the Ontario elections, Canada's only environmental newshour, The Green Majority,has completed a two-part series of interviews with Ontario's politial dignitaries on the environment file.

After 2010, Toronto cannot dump trash in Michigan anymore - A new deal calls for waste shipments to be reduced by 20 per cent by the end of 2007, by 40 per cent by the end of 2008 and then fully eliminated by the end of 2010. Earlier this year, the government streamlined the environmental approval processes to allow dumps to be built faster, and Toronto has evolved a hot new recycling program that may be the answer - a new waste disposal system will insure that the city has the funds it needs to build new 'cleaner' dumps, closer to home.