Green

After years of discussions and planning, the Xstrata Nickel Sustainable Energy Centre in Sudbury officially opened its doors.

Recommendations from a three-day renewable energy conference, being held in Sudbury Feb.

La Maison Verte, a Hearst not-for-profit reforestation grower, spent the majority of December installing a $230,000 geothermal heating pump for one of its greenhouses, and plans on using January and February to test it.

Like many of the Finnish immigrants who settled west of Thunder Bay at the turn of the last century, Leo Hunnakko is a big believer in being self-sufficient.

Food waste is a rotten problem but a new company has a fresh solution that reduces its volume by 90 per cent. Food Cycle Science, based in Cornwall, Ont.

When developing the idea for the new $2.5-million state-of-the-art Hearst Regional Green Technologies Centre, the community had two main focuses. One was business, and the other sustainable development.

For two years, it seemed CRIBE was almost as dormant as Thunder Bay's Sleeping Giant. But evidently there's been plenty going on behind the scenes.

What started as an association to create job opportunities for single mothers has flourished as a viable greenhouse operation.

A collaboration between College Boreal and Xstrata Nickel on a new experimental forest will allow for long-term planning, while providing valuable research and information-gathering opportunities about local forests.

Sustainability can be a scary word for businesses.