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The City of Toronto has awarded contracts to equip 20 municipal facilities with solar thermal equipment that will provide heat to buildings. But instead of owning the systems, the city is only purcha
Tags: fossil fuels solar
Posted 1 day ago
There have been a number of good stories and blog postings about the extent to which the credit crunch and its economic downside will hurt renewable energy projects and act as a drag on cleantech fina
Posted 2 days ago
Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! The world can be a crazy place, but we do in the big picture have much to be thankful for. Enjoy the time with family and friends, and a week of turkey dinner lefto
Posted 4 days ago
Working in the business section of Canada's largest daily newspaper, I have to say it's been tough watching the markets. If you think the U.S. has been getting battered, Canada's commodity-heavy excha
Tags: canada
Posted 1 week ago
Lots of news to report from the Great White North, where we've got a great stable of cleantech companies even if they are generally underappreciated and underfunded. Speaking of underfunded, I'd j
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My Clean Break column today talks about the idea of creating a green bond as a safe investment vehicle for Canadians that at the same time could raise money for large-scale renewable energy projects,
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Prof. David Keith, a well-respected climate-change scientist from the University of Calgary, believes it's possible to design a machine that can snatch carbon dioxide out of ambient air. In fact, he k
Posted 2 weeks ago
Skymeter Corp., a Toronto startup trying to raise the bar on congestion-tolling technology i.e. road user charging has received high grades after a small pilot project with Cisco Systems
Posted 2 weeks ago
I had the opportunity last week of visiting Ford Motor Co.'s Oakville assembly plant, where they have just installed a new fumes-to-fuel facility. The facility extracts paint fumes from its auto paint
Posted 2 weeks ago
I want to know what readers of Clean Break think about the credit crisis and its impact existing or potential on the development and deployment of renewable energy and clean technologies.One c
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