energy efficiency

Canada will join a collaboration of governments and supporting organizations called The Three Percent Club to put the world on a path to three percent annual energy efficiency improvement.According to the organization, Canada’s…

The Province of BC, the City of Vancouver, the BC Non-Profit Housing Association and the Pembina Institute, are working together on a home-safe initiative called the Reframed Lab.The pilot program aims to advance innovation in…

Plans to construct a new 21-megawatt solar farm and a battery storage facility in Summerside, PEI have been announced. According to Infrastructure Canada, this renewable energy source will improve the energy efficiency of the City of…

HALIFAX – Nova Scotia's largest environmental group has published a study that envisions a province where more than 40 per cent of cars are hybrids or electric, heat pumps are widespread and imported electricity replaces coal.The…

Carleton University’s Burak Gunay, and fellow researchers Liam O’Brien and Scott Bucking, have received $510,000 from the NRCan Green Infrastructure Fund to develop new data-mining tools that will improve building energy efficiency,…

Minister of Democratic Institutions, the Honourable Karina Gould, and Member of Parliament for Spadina-Fort York, Adam Vaughan, on behalf of Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, have announced a $40-million…

A new publication demonstrating to contractors and designers that zero energy office buildings are attainable has been released in the U.S., developed jointly by various organizations, including ASHRAE, the American Institute of Architects…

The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) has launched the CaGBC Disclosure Challenge initiative to support and champion the importance of data transparency in the Canadian real estate market and encourage broader uptake of benchmarking…

The Building Owners and Managers Association of Canada (BOMA Canada) is excited to announce year 2 of the Net Zero Challenge, supported by Natural Resources Canada and sponsored by Bullfrog Power. The Net Zero Challenge continues to…

OTTAWA – Thank you, Mr. Speaker.Last week, I was back home in Toronto–where I had a chance to visit with some young people at the Boys and Girls Club in Regent Park.It was March Break last week, so they were pretty focused on having…