¶ Published Monday, November 30th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Announcements ∞ No Comments »
We are phasing out one of our plans, the Basic Plan. The basic plan offered access to updates, topics and legislation – but no legal register functionality. Over the past year and a half we have found all of our new clients have required legal register functionality and the clients on the basic plan were [...]
¶ Published Friday, November 27th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Should the Climategate revelations change our views about global warming? Robin Hanson (an expert on idea futures) thinks not. Sure, the scandal has exposed the ugly side of academics caught distorting research for political ends, but as Hanson puts it:
“It is a shame that academia works this way, and an academia where this stuff [...]
¶ Published Friday, November 27th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Just a quick note that Copenhagen might yet still have some life in it. With President Obama announcing his forthcoming presence, Canada and China are following suit with their high leaders, Harper and Wen Jiabao respectively. China seems to be serious about reducing the greenhouse gas emissions, simply for the reason that they are very [...]
¶ Published Friday, November 27th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The United States throws out 40% of their food (article). With the world under greater and greater ecological pressure, many parties state the obvious: efficiency improvements are the low hanging fruit. Lowering your house temperature in the winter, raising it in the summer, buying a fuel-efficient car or changing your light bulbs saves a great [...]
¶ Published Thursday, November 26th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
No question that Climategate is damaging for proponents of global warming theory. But more worrisome is that mainstream media will respond by giving credence to the fevered ravings of conspiracy theorists. So far reactions betray the lack of political will in this world to do what it takes to set the us [...]
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At Nimonik, we are currently developing an NPRI reporting tool that will help Canadian companies easily calculate emissions from multiple facilities and, if thresholds are met, report their findings to the government.
This release is intended to gauge interest from potential clients who would be willing to subscribe to such a service and solicit any [...]
¶ Published Tuesday, November 24th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Announcements ∞ 1 Comment »
We are very pleased to announce that the ISO 14000 Store, which offers useful tools for building and maintaining an ISO 14001 EMS, is working with us to deliver EMS documentation and environmental regulation to our clients. They have graciously provided us with a number of EMS documents you might find useful, these documents are [...]
¶ Published Sunday, November 22nd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ 1 Comment »
In this weekend’s La Presse, François Cardinal wonders why governments always play with words when making policy for what to do with our waste.
After several revisions to its policy on “residual materials” (read waste), the Quebec government has reinvented the language of waste management. Instead of “dump” we say “sanitary landfill”. We no [...]
¶ Published Sunday, November 22nd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Just came across an interesting article discussing the ecological disaster that is shipping. This largely has to do with the use of “bunker fuel” – a very low grade, high sulphur, diesel that is used by ships around the world. The article claims 16 large tankers produce more pollution than all the cars in the [...]
¶ Published Thursday, November 19th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Progress is being made on reducing deforestation in the Amazonian rainforest. This is being done through satellite monitoring of ranches and the enforcement of laws and regulations. In fact, deforestation in 2008 was at its lowest level since monitoring began in 1988 – promising news. The reality is that the enforcement of laws drives behaviour [...]
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