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Sept. 16, 2010
Carbon 101 Workshop - Turning Carbon Reduction into Business Opportunity - Join Partners in Project Green for this one-day interactive workshop to help your business develop a greenhouse gas (GHG) baseline and reduction strategy. This workshop will provide your company with the know-how to develop a GHG baseline and reduction strategy, by providing a simple and systematic process for collecting your data and identifying ways to reduce your costs and GHG emissions.
Sept. 30 to Oct. 1st, 2010
Partners in Project Green Eco-Business Summit : Energy Management and Financing - This Partners in Project Green Eco-Business Summit is focused on giving businesses the skills they need to realize energy reduction opportunities – getting beyond the big picture of why businesses should reduce their costs, and giving hands-on training on how to identify, sell and implement energy projects. Day two of the summit will include tours of local companies that have turned sustainability into a business opportunity.
Oct. 21st, 2010
Getting Results from Lean & Green - This full-day, interactive workshop reveals the hidden and costly wastes often overlooked in organizations. By using a real facility facing real challenges, participants will gain hands on training in a simple and systematic process for eliminating waste that can protect margins while increasing profitability and competitiveness. By focusing on the reduction and avoidance of costs, as seen through an interactive tour of Pratt and Whitney Canada, this workshop will provide basic tools to quickly realize both short-term and long-term benefits that yield immediate savings while putting in place commonsense structures to ensure future savings by moving towards sustainability.
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Eco-Efficiency Program - get a walk-through assessment of your facility to identify energy, water and waste cost savings.
Sustainable Energy Plan Program - develop an energy plan for your company that will help identify and reduce operating costs, while setting you on the path to increased productivity and environmental responsibility.
Carbon 101 Reduction Program - utilize these easy-to-use tools to calculate and begin reducing your greenhouse gas emissions.
Green Purchasing Alliance - reduce the cost of your energy retrofit by 5% to 45% by purchasing your building envelope technologies through the Clinton Climate Initiative's Purchasing Alliance.
To learn more about these programs and others, visit www.partnersinprojectgreen.com.
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| Smart Commute Spotlight - GTAA |
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Many people visualize the Pearson Airport area as a broad array of runways, highways, terminal buildings, and industrial zones. With all that concrete, many would be surprised to learn that the Pearson Eco-Business Zone is the largest eco-business zone in North America and is committed to reducing its carbon footprint with environmentally-friendly initiatives.
As one of the founding members of Partners in Project Green, the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) has taken this commitment very seriously. By joining forces with Smart Commute Mississauga, the GTAA has successfully implemented smart commuting initiatives for its employees and has become a sustainable transportation leader in the Pearson Eco-Business Zone.
Read more... or learn more about Smart Commute by clicking here.
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| LoyaltyOne takes on the Green Power Challenge |
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LoyaltyOne, a global provider of loyalty strategy and programs, customer analytics, and relationship marketing services, plays an active role in Partners in Project Green. The company behind the AIR MILES and My Planet reward programs is a founding participant in the Green Power Challenge, purchasing over 800 MWh of green power for its candidate LEED-Gold office in Mississauga.
The Green Power Challenge is an exciting program that challenges organizations within the Pearson Eco-Business Zone to achieve a collective goal of greening 58,000 MWh of electricity from renewable sources. Partners in Project Green selected Bullfrog Power to be the exclusive green electricity provider for the Green Power Challenge.
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Kraft cuts waste 30%; 9 plants hit zero waste
Through a combination of recycling, waste-to-energy projects, composting and turning food scraps into animal feed, Kraft Foods has cut its waste by more than double its original goal.
Kraft was planning to cut net manufacturing waste by 15 percent by 2011, compared to 2005. The company has now cut its waste by 30 percent, recycles or reuses 90 percent of its waste, and has nine facilities that send no waste to landfill.
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2010 Plastic Stewardship awards go to Nestlé Waters Canada and Par-Pak Ltd.
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) recently presented its inaugural edition of three awards: Plastics Stewardship, Plastics Innovator and Plastics Newcomer of the Year. According to Mark Badger, President of CPIA, all the awards tie into the industry’s strategic imperatives: increased sustainability, global competitiveness and the need for new talent.
Nestlé Waters Canada and Par-Pak Ltd., CIPEC Leaders in the Plastics Sector and winners of Plastics Stewardship awards, were recognized for their achievements in energy efficiency and resource conservation. “CPIA is striving to recognize outstanding industry leaders; both Nestlé Waters Canada and Par-Pak Ltd. embrace stewardship and sustainability as part of their corporate culture,” says Badger.
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UPS's green shipping program goes global
United Parcel Service is expanding its carbon neutral shipping program to 35 countries and territories in Europe, Asia and the Americas following the launch of the service last fall in the United States.
Under the program, shippers can offset the carbon footprint of their packages by paying a small fee that covers cost of the offsets, emissions calculation and administration: Five cents for a ground package, 20 cents for an air package and 75 cents for an international package. UPS is matching offset purchases up to $1 million through 2010.
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BOMA offering energy management incentives to Toronto businesses
The Building Owners and Management Association (BOMA) is committed to helping its members reduce energy consumption and costs. Two Toronto based programs it uses to do this are the Energy Conservation Assessment Program (ECAP) and the Conservation and Demand Management Program (CDM). ECAP was created with the goal of increasing energy conservation in commercial and industrial properties, as well to increase knowledge of energy management and reduction opportunities. ECAP provides an incentive of $3,000 to property owners and tenants in the in the 416 region to conduct a full building energy assessment.
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Get your environmental legal risks under control
In order to help local businesses keep up-to-date on their environmental risks and regulatory issues, Partners in Project Green has partnered with Nimonik to provide Ontario and Federal government environmental legal updates on the Partners in Project Green Regulatory Blog.
In addition to these ongoing updates, Partners in Project Green members can recieve a 35 per cent rebate on first year subscriptions to Nimonik's web service. The web service offers environmental regulatory updates, explanations and tools for legal registers, and allows companies to spend more time improving environmental performance and less time researching their environmental obligations.
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SmartDriver training helps companies save on fuel costs
Companies working to save money on fuel should look to driver training to help get the costs down, says the Office for Energy Efficiency at Natural Resources Canada. A company can reduce its fuel consumption by 5-10 per cent after participating in a driver training program.
This year, Natural Resources Canada will continue to support the industry by offering its SmartDriver for Highway Trucking training to professional drivers across the country. SmartDriver is designed to help trucking companies save money on fuel and increase profits, while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It teaches participants vehicle care and maintenance, fuel management and driving skills that cut down on consumption. In short, it turns out more fuel efficient drivers.
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