¶ Published Monday, February 1st at %I:%M %p ∞ In Announcements ∞ No Comments »
As a special offer, we are posting all of our environmental guidance text in all of the jursidictions available to non-members. This is a temporary offer for one week, please let us know what you think and feel free to sign-up for an account. Here are our topics and sub-topics:
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¶ Published Friday, January 29th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Canada drops from 12th in 2008 to 43rd out of 163 countries, according to the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). The EPI relies on 25 performance indicators covering both environmental public health and ecosystem vitality.
It’s worth noting that Canada fares quite well on some indicators — in forestry and agricultural practices, notably. Surprisingly, [...]
¶ Published Monday, December 14th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
“This is the day that will define our century. Canada is fully acknowledging its historical climate debt and the legal responsibilities that follow. Today, we no longer have to wait for a COP20 or COP100 before the voices of our children are heard. Now that we are friends, I can say it is high time [...]
¶ Published Monday, December 7th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The Copenhagen climate change summit opens today and will run until December 18. Depending on who you read, either the Canadian government won’t buy into “the hype” and won’t be rushed, or will “push for a binding deal.”
Though Climategate still looms in the forefront, members of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, October 28th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Design & Features ∞ No Comments »
Some of our potential clients do not require detailed guidance text on legislation – they already understand the basics, they simply want updates on environmental legislation. They want to know what is changing, when, how and why. We have always offered updates as part of our various services, but now we are pleased to offer [...]
¶ Published Thursday, April 9th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
To make an educated decision you need data, good data. Unfortunatly, much of the environmental data cited by NGO’s, governments, and the private sector has holes in it and is often out of date by the time it hits the newstand.
In this modern age of Google Maps, GPS, and broadband internet, there is no reason [...]
¶ Published Friday, February 6th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Announcements, Design & Features, Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
In the next few weeks, we will be unveiling a new feature: Municipal Tracking. We will offer bulletins (plain language updates) and links to municipal by-laws. Only Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver will include Topics (detailed guidance text) on municipal by-laws, other municipalities will only have updates. As such, municipalities are priced significantly lower than provinces: [...]
¶ Published Tuesday, January 27th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Design & Features, Environment, Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
As previously mentioned, we are making video screencasts of the different parts of NIMONIK. Just finished a quick one on the legislation part of the site, take a look below and let us know what you think.
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¶ Published Thursday, November 27th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Announcements, Design & Features, Environment, Miscellaneous ∞ No Comments »
A recent blog post by Seth Godin outlined ways to do business online (post: here).
In summary he says, “connect the disconnected to each other and you create value.”
Connect advertisers to people who want to be advertised to.
Connect job hunters with jobs.
Connect information seekers with information.
Connect teams to each other.
Connect those seeking similar.
Connect to partners and those [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, September 17th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment, Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
Canadian Environmental Regulations are getting stricter and broader by the day. We are here to help, but some companies are taking very proactive action (see this article from the Harvard Business Review). The first step to moving beyond compliance, is to understand the laws and regulations affecting your business – and even more importantly, staying on [...]