Businesses Doing the Right Thing

A great new video is out presenting the Productive House eco condos.

This is a project we have been following and supporting for some time now - the creation of an uber-ecological condo complex in Montreal's Pointe St Charles district. Produktif design studio, the change agent making this happen has just released its new site with video tours of the building project, very interesting stuff and some great eco design insights here!Read more

ethiquette.ca and ethipedia.net covered on CBC News this week in a program called Be Green.

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For those who think that working conditions in China have come a long way, a reminder that there is still an even longer way to go before they can be called 'decent'.

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An interesting sustainable practice from ethipedia.net

Associated Group(s)

La Mondiale

Summary

Going from home to work is what employees mostly do with their individual cars everyday, and it has a huge impact on human beings and the environment: CO2 discharge, floor sealing of the roads and car parks, crash risk, and so on. La Mondiale is concerned about the impacts the journeys of its employees has on the environment and on the neighbourhood. The company headquarters, where around 850 people work, is located nearby a subway stop.
Key Strategies:
Restricting car use.
Making the use of parking lots more rational, as they are neither numerous nor safe enough.
Clearing sidewalks and the streets around the building
Promoting the use of alternative means of transportation.

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In 2007, a new complex of greenhouses was built in the community of Saint-Étienne-des-Grès in the Mauricie region of Québec. Covering an area of five hectares, the complex uses a source of clean energy that helps to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are generated by more traditional forms of energy.
The greenhouse complex is heated by biogas (gas produced by the breakdown of organic materials) from an adjoining sanitary landfill site operated by the Mauricie waste management board, which gave the company exclusive ownership over all CO2 credits created by the project as well as the right to sell them on the carbon market. The application of this technology will in fact allow for the creation of voluntary carbon credits
advantages to the practice: i) the capture of methane from the landfill site prevents it from being released into the atmosphere; ii) the collected biogas is a source of thermal energy and serves as a replacement for natural gas, a fossil fuel.Read more