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Cost-free fundraising program: Think Recycle
Think Recycle is a cost-free fundraising program that rewards members with money and environmental incentives for the collection of unwanted electronics including laptops, tablets, cell phones, digital cameras, inkjet cartridges and toner cartridges! Organizations that are eligible to participate in Think Recycle include schools, charities, institutions, churches, teams, clubs and even businesses.
Think Recycle works with more than 20,000 members, across the United States and Canada, to meeting their fundraising and environmental goals.
Kingston: 2012 Green Profit Conference and Exhibition
The 2012 greenprofit Conference and Exhibition, Accelerate Sustainable Change will bring together delegates and speakers to learn about sustainable energy innovations and best practices that are making a difference in the world today, and how they can be applied to your business, municipality, home and community. Please join us for this dynamic sustainable energy conference in historic downtown Kingston.
greenprofit presents proven solutions for your business, municipality and home:
° Reduce the real financial and environmental costs of energy
Video: The Economic Prospects for Food Localization
Leeds & Grenville Computer Technology Centre captures "green award"
EMC St Lawrence / Jill Hudson / 24 November 2011
Leeds & Grenville Computer Technology Centre recently won the Green Award during the Brockville and District Chamber of Commerce (BDCC) Gala.
LGCTC has been doing its part to significantly reduce the amount of electronic waste that makes it to the landfill and refurbishing computers and other electronics - passing the savings along to the consumer.
"We repair or refurbish. We also provide low-cost equipment to businesses and individuals, senior citizens, students, people on social assistance, medical issues," said Paul Donovan. He and David LeSueur own LGCTC.
The facility is part of Ontario Electronic Stewardship Organization (OESO) - which covers east of Kingston, south of Ottawa, right to the Montreal border as LGCTCs refurbishing jurisdiction.
OESO is an organization that is mandated to handle E-waste around Ontario. It consists of a number of components - collecting the E-waste, refurbishing the equipment, consolidating the E-waste and shipping the remainder.
Want to invest ethically? Look to your own backyard
The Guardian / Joanne O'Connell / 22 October 2011
Putting money into a community project gives ethical investors the chance to do everything from cutting carbon emissions to buying a stake in the village pub.
That's not to say they don't want a return on their cash but they'd rather it came from this kind of venture than traditional stocks and shares.
Colin Mather is a 67-year-old retired civil engineer. He's put £1,000 towards a 50kw hydroelectric turbine shortly to be installed on the River Esk, near Whitby. He wants his money to help cut carbon emissions, produce renewable energy and fund green energy education programmes.
"We're right beside a river, so a hydroelectric turbine was an obvious choice," he says. "A group of us applied for planning permission and funds and we've had a lot of support locally."
It's taken four years but the Esk Valley Community Energy Group has finally received the go-ahead to install a small-scale generator, known as an Archimedes screw. It's an expensive project: grants and loans total £240,000, and 75 investors have ploughed in £120,000, yet it still needs to raise a further £200,000.
The group received advice and support from The Co-operative Enterprise Hub which provides training and advice on member-owned enterprises. They launched community shares (they are not listed on the stock market).
Vancouver: Wallets will soon feel effect of climate change
Vancouver Sun / Gordon Hamilton / 19 October 2011
Higher costs for city water, rising home-insurance rates as sea levels rise, and programs to encourage people to leave their fossil-fuel-burning cars at home were cited Tuesday as ways that climate change is, or soon will be, hitting home for B.C. residents.
That was the message from a panel at the opening session of BC Hydro's 2011 Power Smart Forum speaking on how a changing climate is affecting the business environment. Business, government and residents need to begin adapting so that the province will be more resilient as climate-change effects become more obvious, panelists said.
An Energy Efficiency Strategy for Ontario's Homes, Buildings and Industries
Ontario Clean Air Alliance
In the 20th century, Ontario’s economy was built on a foundation of low-cost and abundant energy supplies. From 1906 to 1959 we enjoyed continuously falling electricity rates as Ontario Hydro developed virtually all of our low-cost hydro-electric resources. And starting in 1958 with the completion of the TransCanada pipeline system from Alberta to Ontario, we began to rely on low cost natural gas to heat our homes and fuel our industries. Times have changed, however.
