By DENIS LANGLOIS, SUN TIMES STAFF May 1, 2012 Federal and provincial parks and other conservation areas provide animals, birds and plants with the best chance of weathering rapid climate change, says an Ontario scholar and parks researcher. "A lot of the solutions to the climate change problem are found in parks," said Read More...

March 22, 2012 - Government of Ontario - Ontario is moving ahead with its clean energy program, taking immediate steps to ensure the long-term sustainability of renewable energy while creating more jobs, lowering prices and giving communities a greater say. Following the first review of Ontario's signature Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) Program, the Read More...

March 13, 2012, The Record -  WATERLOO — Waterloo council is spending almost $90,000 to consider generating electricity by wind, even though the wind hardly blows enough. The proposed turbine would top a 20-metre pole beside the RIM Park recreation complex. A study that cost city hall $25,000 suggests it would be Read More...

 February 20, 2012, Nature.com -  Is there feasible road to a low carbon future? According to a group of scientists, policy experts and young environmental leaders the answer is a qualified yes – if national governments and industry get busy developing and implementing transformative technologies to achieve a more sustainable supply Read More...

February 15, 2012, The Cord -  The City of Waterloo continues to show its excellence in not only advanced technology but advanced thinking when it comes to green initiatives and long term sustainability goals. Last week, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) unveiled the winners of the 2012 Sustainable Communities Awards. This Read More...

 January 17, 2012,  The Record -  WATERLOO REGION—The Region of Waterloo and several employers have partnered under a new program that encourages people to walk, cycle, ride buses or car-pool to and from work. The program, called the TravelWise Transportation Management Association, was unveiled at the University of Waterloo on Tuesday. Individuals can Read More...

 January 4, 2012, Federation of Canadian Municipalities - Berry Vrbanovic, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and councillor for the City of Kitchener, Ont., and Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo, announced a Green Municipal Fund™ (GMF) grant to the City of Waterloo. The city will use the Read More...

January 5, 2012, Daily Exchange -  Kitchener - Canadian Solar Inc., and the Ningxia Electric Power Group today announced the successful completion and grid-connection of a 10 MW ground mounted solar project, a part of a 50MW solar plant, in Hongsibao, Ningxia, in northwest China at the end of 2011. This 10 Read More...

 January 3, 2012, Market Watch -  WATERLOO, ONTARIO, Jan 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- TurboSonic Technologies, Inc. TSTA -16.67% , a global provider of clean air technologies, today announced receipt of a US$2.7 million order for turnkey supply of a SonicKleen(TM) Wet Electrostatic Precipitator (WESP) to control particulate emissions Read More...

December 20, 2011, Bloomburg Businessweek - TransCanada Corp. agreed to buy its first solar power plants, acquiring nine projects in Ontario from Canadian Solar Inc. for C$470 million ($456 million). The projects, which are scheduled to begin operating between late 2012 and mid-2013, will generate 86 megawatts of power and have Read More...

 December 16, 2011, physorg.com - PhysOrg.com) -- It typically takes a day or two to prepare quantum dot solar cells in the conventional multifilm architecture. Now a team of researchers is reducing the preparation time of quantum dot solar cells to less than an hour by changing the form to a Read More...

 December 13, 2011, Market Watch -  WATERLOO, ONTARIO, Dec 12, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- TURBOSONIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC. TSTA 0.00% , a global provider of clean air technologies, today announced the receipt of a US$1 Million order for a SonicKleen(TM) Wet Electrostatic Precipitator (WESP) to reduce submicron particulate matter and Read More...

December 2, 2011,  Ecostrategy.ca - Dozens of impoverished villages in Brazil’s Amazonia region that do not have access to power will soon receive free, 21st century solar electricity thanks to an ocean container filled with 560 solar PV panels donated by Canadian Solar Solutions Incorporated (CSSI). Recently manufactured at CSSI’s new plant Read More...

November 23, 2011, Daily Exchange -  Kitchener – A made-in-Kitchener solution designed for the city’s Victoria Park Lake clean-up project could have positive environmental impacts across the province. Engineers and scientists at Kitchener’s Stantec, the consultant working with the city to help with the clean-up of Victoria Park Lake, are developing a Read More...

November 23, 2011, The Daily Courier  Kitchener continues to be a Canadian high-tech hub, so it’s no surprise that Facebook is planning a major presence a stone’s throw from the city’s downtown Google offices. The job of selective demolition and environmental abatement on the office site was awarded to the demolition Read More...

 November 18, 2011, Daily Exchange -  Waterloo - Sustainable Waterloo Region, in partnership with the German Consulate, Canada’s Technology Triangle, and WalterFedy, welcome bestselling Canadian author Chris Turner to Waterloo Region, on his speaking tour profiling the latest innovations in German cleantech and sustainable design. For more than a decade, Germany has Read More...

November 15, 2011 - Daily Exchange -  Region of Waterloo Launches New Community Environmental Fund! WATERLOO REGION - The Region of Waterloo has launched a new Community Environmental Fund to assist community members to carry out a wide range of environmental projects! Building on the success of the Region’s Environmental Stewardship Fund established Read More...

November 3, 2011, The Record - Catrina Chiodo was bitterly disappointed. You’d be bummed out too if you drove 3,000 kilometres across the Australian Outback and didn’t see one live kangaroo. “We saw five dead ones,” said the primary driver of the University of Waterloo’s Midnight Sun X solar car, which finished Read More...

 October 25, 2011, The Record -  KITCHENER — Mark Pomeroy stands at the bow of the boat that slowly moves around Victoria Park Lake, netting fish that are stunned by an electrical field around the skiff. Immediately in front of Pomeroy is a device that hangs in the water, charging it with Read More...

October 21, 2011, Marketwatch.com -  TORONTO, ONTARIO, Oct 21, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregate (SERA) is pleased to announce that its Standards Development Panel, which was announced on September 27, 2011, will benefit from the participation of staff from the Region of Waterloo. The addition of Read More...

October 18, 2011, Marketwire -  In the same month Forbes Magazine rated Canada as the world's top country for business, executives from the Ontario Clean Technology Alliance are attending Solar Power International in Dallas to invite environmental technology companies from around the world to participate in the Province of Ontario's clean Read More...

October 18, 2011, Market2World - Dallas, TX – Solar Power International – Oct. 18, 2011 – In the same month Forbes Magazine rated Canada as the world’s top country for business, executives from the Ontario Clean Technology Alliance are attending Solar Power International in Dallas to invite environmental technology companies Read More...