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Foothills Homes for Sale
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Welcome to my Environment Page. This is an area of study that I am passionate about.
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Architecture 2030 Breaking News |
| The 2030 Challenge target of carbon neutral buildings by 2030. | |
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Comparison of Obama and McCain’s Energy and Environmental Plans; Fall 2008 |
| Which Candidate will decide to lead on energy | |
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Drake Landing Solar Community |
| Drake Landing, Okotoks, Canada’s first, and North America’s largest, solar community, officially launched September 13th with partners from across the country in attendance. |
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Eco Building codes for Vail Colorado |
| ECO-build regulations adopted to promote energy and material efficient building design and construction practices in Vail, Colorado | |
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Enviro cleaning plumbing fixtures |
| Making natural cleaning products to use on your fine, luxury plumbing products is easy and can be done in no time | |
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Government of Canada: ecoACTION |
| Government of Canada web site on environmental news. "Save money and help to protect the environment by making your home more energy efficient. You could qualify for a grant of up to $5000 for your home energy retrofit". |
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Green homes are the future: News article |
| Green friendly home improvements will likely yield a solid return on investment come selling time as almost three quarters of Canadians (72%) say they will look for a green-improved property in their
next home purchase |
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It’s easy being green! The single simplest way to reduce your enviromental footprint. |
| Greenmax™ is ENMAX Energy's environmental program that provides you with an easy way to help our environment. By supporting the development of wind power through the Greenmax program you can ensure that harmful emissions aren’t put into our air. Changing to green power has the equivalent CO2 reduction of driving approx. 33,000 km per year. |
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Retrofit Your Home and Qualify for a Grant! |
| Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is offering a new residential energy efficiency assessment service to owners of single family homes including detached, semi-detached and low-rise multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs) that are no more than three storeys high. Under the ecoENERGY Retrofit program, property owners can quality for federal grants by improving the energy efficiency of their homes, and reducing their home's impact on the environment. |
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The 2030 °Challenge. As Architecture 2030 has shown, buildings are responsible for almost half (48%) of all energy consumption and GHG emissions annually; globally the percentage is even greater. |
| Immediate action in the Building Sector, and a concerted global effort, are essential if we are to avoid hazardous climate change. |
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The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change. By Tim Flannery |
| In this groundbreaking and essential new book, Tim Flannery argues passionately for the urgent need to address - NOW - the implications of a global climate change that is damaging all life on earth and endangering our very survival. |
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Top 10 Big Energy Myths |
| There has never been a more important time to invest in green technologies, yet many of us believe these efforts are doomed to failure. | |
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Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future |
| Whether one believes that human activity is capable of producing the observed increases in greenhouse gases or that human activity is incapable of such dramatic changes is inconsequential to his arguement. The changes in greenhouse gas concentrations and in climate are occurring and Ward paints a very solid picture of where these changes can lead. |
News
Royal Bank profit surges 35 per cent to $1.5BThe Star, Wed March 3
Canada’s largest bank racked up a $1.5-billion first-quarter profit, a 35 per cent gain from the same period a year earlier helped by cost cutting and a strong performance at its domestic banking division in an economic landscape beginning to recover from the recession. ...
Low interest rates to power Calgary housing market
The Calgary Herald, Wed March 3
A forecast by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. released on Tuesday said sales in both the new home and resale housing markets are expected to increase this year and next year in Calgary and for Alberta. ...
Canadian resale housing market up 58% from year-ago levels
Montreal Gazette, Wed Feb. 17
CALGARY - National activity in the resale housing market declined in January from the previous month but was up 58 per cent from year-ago levels, when national home sales activity reached the lowest level in a decade. ...
Why Jim Flaherty's mortgage rules won't hurt homebuyers
The Globe and Mail, Wed Feb. 17
The mortgage rule changes announced Tuesday by Financial Minister Jim Flaherty will weigh a bit on real estate speculators and heavily indebted people who want to fold their high-rate credit card debt into a lower-rate mortgage. But for rank and file homebuyers, the changes will barely be perceptible when they take effect on April 19. ...
Olympics to bring gold to Vancouver's economy in 2010
CNW Group News Wire, Wed Jan. 27
"Vancouver is poised for a substantial rebound. In addition to the boost provided by the Olympic Winter Games, housing construction and consumer spending are forecast to rebound strongly this year." ...
Caring for kids goes corporate
Edmonton Journal, Wed Jan. 27
A chain of day-care centres in Edmonton and Calgary could be the first in Canada to trade on the stock market as their Texasbased owner is now seeking a listing on the TSX Venture Exchange. ...
Alberta jobless rate shrinks
Edmonton Journal, Wed Jan. 27
Statistics Canada reported Alberta's jobless rate improved to 6.7 per cent in December from 7.4 per cent in November ...
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