Green

Ellsin Environmental Ltd. will establish the plant to test a patented process for reclaiming used tires after a $2 million investment by the province's Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation.

Nowadays, it seems like there are easy green options for just about everything. There are environmentally friendly, soaps, cars, toilets, bags and jewellery products readily available to the average consumer.

The ‘Greenest city in Europe’ is not some sun-soaked southern village covered in solar panels, nor a windy costal town surrounded by a forest of wind turbines, but rather the city of Växjö, nestled in the forests of Central Sweden.

A private landowner and entrepreneur plans to start construction this fall on a small one-megawatt hydroelectric power station, near Webbwood in northeastern Ontario.

By James Neeley A new renewable source of energy is all around us just waiting to be capitalized upon: Biomass plant material, vegetation, chipped wood and agricultural waste is a permanent natural resource in Northern Ontario.

By Tim Perry Geothermal energy systems can drop the average person’s energy costs to one-half or one-third, said Robert Belanger, service manager for Campeau Heating.

Storing nuclear waste in the deep confines of the Canadian Shield has always evoked a basic gut level reaction from Northerners.

On a frosty, cobalt blue Sudbury morning, Richard Munn at the Greater Sudbury Housing Corporation won't complain too much about heating bills.

The real future of construction across all of North America, lies in the sustainable building sector, according to international “green” building guru David Johnston.

As Luc Duchesne edges closer to bringing his mini bio-diesel refinery machine to the fuel-consuming masses, the normally talkative entrepreneur is becoming less expansive than usual.