Increasingly it is being recognized that Climate Change is an issue that we all have a responsibility to address. Its solely not a problem restricted to coal burning power plants or drivers of SUVs. It will also have a major impact on how we carry out research and teaching at our universities. Most significantly cyber-infrastructure and IT may now be ...

Zerofootprint has developed a strategy to reduce the environmental impact of events and festivals. By measuring greenhouse gas emissions based on activities directly related to an event, and the resources used in an event, we can help to manage the events impact on climate change. We work with organizations in order to properly establish the scope of measurement, which might ...

Most people are surprised to learn how detrimental flying is to the environment. Air Canada and Zerofootprint have teamed up to launch a new Corporate Carbon Offset program. The program enables Air Canada’s corporate clients to offset the emissions from their flights. Businesses get the opportunity to support projects that are helping to reduce climate change, and simultaneously achieve environmental ...

Governments everywhere face the challenge of how to engage citizens in reducing carbon emissions.

Zerofootprint proposes the Green Credits program.

Green Credits, released in August 2008, ...

So, I’d been hearing about Carbon Offsetting for a while now, and it piqued my interest. If you’re not familiar with the idea, a carbon offset is a fee you can pay to offset the carbon emissions from some activity of your choice. The idea is that the fee you pay goes towards environmental projects and you pay enough to ...

OTTAWA – Green party Leader Elizabeth May says her whistle-stop campaign tour is the green way to go and it seems she’s right.

May says her cross-country train journey will spew fewer greenhouse-gas emissions into the atmosphere than a plane trip. A carbon ...

With all the turmoil in the markets, it seems time to write again about people who are doing good works in the financial sector. I’ve scheduled an interview with the host of a conference for compassionate venture capitalists and their potential clients, which takes place in October. Next Saturday, a column about the conference. Today, ten good reasons to become ...

On September 23rd this year we mark an unfortunate milestone: As of today, humanity will have consumed all the new resources the planet will produce this year, according to Global Footprint Network calculations. For the rest of 2008, we will be in the ecological equivalent of deficit spending, drawing down our resource stocks – in essence, borrowing from the future.

The Globe and Mail

Ron Dembo’s new plan to use “green credits” to reduce carbon emissions might just be the answer. Think of it as an Aeroplan for frequent greenies. You would get points for good behaviour and trade them for cash or ...

WorldChanging

In July, Air Canada (the world’s 14th largest scheduled and charter airline), and the Zerofootprint Group of Companies, launched their Corporate Carbon Offset Program. Seemingly based on principles of social marketing, this program encourages companies, as part of their corporate carbon management ...