Cape Breton
Atlantic Coastal Action Program – Centre for sustainable communities
Cape Breton dealer for the Cansolair forced convection solar heating unit
Cape Breton dealer for solar hot water systems, and more
Nova Scotia
Promoting the survival and development of Nova Scotia’s coastal and rural communities.
NS government’s agency for energy efficiency.
Now is the time to benefit from solar energy. We can help.
Working to build a healthier, more sustainable Nova Scotia.
To build a sustainable economy, we need tools of analysis that properly value social, economic and environmental assets.
Working with Nova Scotians to improve our environment, economy and quality of life by reducing, re-using, recycling and recovering resources.
Canada
Environmental group providing science-based education, advocacy and policy work
Sustainable energy solutions
Why Canada needs an energy security plan.
U.S. & Int'l
Solutions exist for reducing the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Al Gore’s Nobel Prize- and Academy Award-winning “Global Warning”
The science, solutions, and politics of climate change.
Natural resources and the environment
UK climate campaigner
US organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty
Climate science from climate scientists
News & Noteworthy
Reduces greenhouse gases while decreasing the disproportionately high energy burden facing low-income household. Low-income energy efficiency has economic multipliers approximately twice that of investments in key manufacturing plants.
To be skeptical of climate models and credulous about geoengineering is to replace a faith in science with a belief in science fiction.
A report by the European Environment Agency released today shows that the European Union and all Member States but one are on track to meet their Kyoto Protocol commitments to limit and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Though the current deficit is smaller (relative to GDP) than in the 90s, we are already hearing the early warning signs of the coming austerity. Gutting the public sector is one choice among many; there is always an alternative.
Tufts University study: traditional Chinese martial art Tai Chi, known in western countries for its soft, flowing movements, is a good exercise option for older adults and the frail, and can benefit heart health and osteoarthritis.
World Bank calculates money it would take for countries to adapt to a world 2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels in 2050, which would lead to more intense rainfall, droughts, floods, heat waves and other extreme weather.
Given rising energy prices and a growing awareness of the importance of energy conservation, carefully conceived energy management with a green IT may well be one of the most important steps you can take to sustain and grow your business.
One of Islam’s most important cities, Madinah, is to become a model ‘green’ city under a Muslim Seven Year action plan on the environment.
$15 million in federal and provincial government funding announced for construction of CBU’s Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment.
Burning fossil fuels costs the U.S. about $120 billion a year in health costs, mostly because of thousands of premature deaths from air pollution.
A web-only, special rich-media presentation of the feature, “A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030″, which appears in the November 2009 issue of Scientific American.
In 2001, the scientific consensus said neither Greenland nor Antarctica would lose significant mass by 2100. They both already are.
The Maldives is low to the water – most of it only a meter or two above sea level, a bad place to be in a century when scientists think that unless we act swiftly sea level may rise . . . a meter or two.
More help for for electric, coal and wood users; less for those with oil, propane or natural gas heat
“We want and need more green energy. This change means more wind power projects on the ground and means that we are closer to our goal of 25 per cent renewable electricity by 2015.”
Siting turbine factories in Shelburne or Sydney, areas that need employment, will offer deep harbours so we can easily deploy wind farms offshore.
Nowhere else on Earth do fewer people steward more resources, yet Canada now stands dead last among the G8 Nations in protecting our shared home from the threat of dangerous climate change.
Dr. Hansen has said for years that growing reliance on coal, far more so than oil, is the biggest threat to the global climate
Electricity sector generates 50% of NS’s greenhouse gas emissions. NSP responsible for almost all of that.
NSP’s plan to add a surcharge to power bills for electricity that customers don’t use is being panned.
Shear Wind Inc. gets permit, to begin construction on 30-turbine wind project near New Glasgow
Thousands of Nova Scotians who heat with electricity aren’t getting the sales tax break they should be getting, according to the NDP.
The trend is “difficult to explain” without the effect of rising greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.
“If the priorities aren’t attached to the spring budget then perhaps this climate plan is in trouble.” -Cheryl Ratchford, Ecology Action Centre
Digby County’s first domestic wind turbine will be providing power to Larry Melanson’s Gilbert Cove home within a month
Shear Wind expected to give positive report to investors today
Faith leaders demand quick and extensive reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in the wealthy parts of the world.
Scotian WindFields believes the Department of Energy should provide a roadmap to 100 percent renewable power, rather than continued support of fossil fuels
Cape Breton University could become the first university in Canada with its own full-size wind turbine.
