2007 Toyota Earth Day Scholarship National Winner
BobbyJo (BJ) Bodnar is an extremely eloquent and politically active student who prioritizes sustainability at the very top of his … Continue reading 2007 Toyota Earth Day Scholarship National Winner
Mega-Marina Threatens Lake Simcoe
Simcoe is under threat, again. This time, it Continue reading Mega-Marina Threatens Lake Simcoe
B.C’s Top 100 Natural Wonders
What’s British Columbia’s top natural wonder? Is it the Adams River salmon run or Active Pass? How about Skookumchuk Narrows … Continue reading B.C’s Top 100 Natural Wonders
Sustainable Ottawa Community Energy Co-Op
Sustainable Ottawa Community Energy Co-Op is a community based non-profit organization. Our mission is to make sustainable technologies, products and … Continue reading Sustainable Ottawa Community Energy Co-Op
Sustainable Ottawa Begins Harnessing Community Energy
Ottawa – Sustainable technology and “green” products are about to get a lot cheaper for National Capital Region residents. Sustainable Ottawa Community Energy Co-Operative is a brand new non-profit community based organization that is a direct response to a lack of concrete action on the environment.
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Your Comments – Ethanol
Ethanol as a replacement for fossil fuel seems to be a controversial subject. However, among all the pros and cons, … Continue reading Your Comments – Ethanol
Plug into Green Canada
That’s what plug into greenTM is all about. We are a new kind of energy company. We sell carbon offsets … Continue reading Plug into Green Canada
Travel Greener – Drive Greener Canada
Drive greenerTM Canada offers individuals, businesses and organizations a way to reduce their impact on global warming. Cooler Skies Company, … Continue reading Travel Greener – Drive Greener Canada
E3 Fleet
E3 Fleet is a program initiative of the Fraser Basin Council (FBC), a non-profit organization with a mandate of bringing … Continue reading E3 Fleet
Human genome continues to surprise
Science Matters by David Suzuki
Imagine discovering that the person running your favourite Fortune 500 company was not the CEO, as everyone presumed, but rather the bicycle-courier guy in spandex shorts and a goatee who everyone thought just delivered the messages.
That’s pretty much how scientists working on the ENCODE project must have felt after analyzing the first part of the human genome.
ENCODE, short for Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, is a massive project that aims to catalogue all of the functional elements of the human genome. The recently completed first stage of ENCODE catalogued just one per cent of our genetic code, but that represents some 30 million bases, or “letters” of DNA, in this case chosen randomly from 44 different parts of the genome. Analyzing that one per cent of our genetic structure took 308 scientists from 10 countries four years to complete.
Jacques Whitford to go ‘carbon neutral’
One of Canada’s largest environmental consulting firms says it’s taking an extra step in walking the walk by going “carbon … Continue reading Jacques Whitford to go ‘carbon neutral’
First Pan-Canadian Study on Responsible Food Consumption: Ready Citizens, Interested Merchants…and Governments That Have to Catch Up
MONTREAL, June 20 /CNW Telbec/ – Equiterre today published a first pan-Canadian study on factors leading Canadian consumers to choose … Continue reading First Pan-Canadian Study on Responsible Food Consumption: Ready Citizens, Interested Merchants…and Governments That Have to Catch Up