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Cliff McCollum

Easy Green ideas 11 Replies

Started by Cliff McCollum. Last reply by Cliff McCollum Feb 23, 2009.

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Recycling and Reuse ideas 1 Reply

Started by Cliff McCollum. Last reply by Cliff McCollum Feb 16, 2009.

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Green Transportation 8 Replies

Started by Brad BARCLAY. Last reply by Cliff McCollum Jan 16, 2009.

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Cliff McCollum

Improve your health, the environment, and win free 2010 Olympic Tickets

If you live in BC and are looking for motivation to do something about the environment, or you are trying to improve your personal levels of health and fitness, you might want to check out: http://www.actnowbc.ca



The BC government has created this site to allow people to challenge themselves and their friends to make 2010 a healthier year. The added bonus for BC residents is that entering the challenge will automatically enter you to win free tickets to the 2010 Winter… Continue

Posted by Cliff McCollum on February 15, 2009 at 7:38am

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Ontario Announces support for Better Place electric cars

A few months ago, Wired magazine had an article about Shai Agassi and his vision for electric cars. His company is called Better Place and I think he is the first (and currently only) person who has a vision broad enough to actually change the face of transportation.



Yesterday, the Ontario government announced a partnership with Better Place to bring an full electric infrastructure to Ontario. You can listen to the… Continue

Posted by Cliff McCollum on January 16, 2009 at 9:01am — 1 Comment

Jen Murdoch

In Business, there is Light Green and Dark Green.

Here is an interesting article I came across today:

"Predictions for 2009: The Changing Face of Green"
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/rob/?p=298&nr=dye

Posted by Jen Murdoch on December 17, 2008 at 8:42pm — 1 Comment

serena

Tech Park Compost Program

I think that since pretty much all of the offices have staff rooms (which i assume have eating area) AND there is an eatery downstairs, I think that the tech park should have a compost program!



it may be something small, starting just with us at first. Like a bin full of worms where we all throw our fruit peels and cores, or perhaps we may decide to skip out on the worms and go for a air tight container that we drop off at a compost site once a month....



I'm not sure if we… Continue

Posted by serena on December 11, 2008 at 7:19pm — 1 Comment

Jen Murdoch

Green Drinks

Green Drinks is a face-to-face forum to discuss and get feedback on your ideas and initiatives that help the environment. It is a fantastic way to meet very interesting, diverse, and innovative people from around the city.

http://greendrinksvictoria.ca/gd/index.html

Posted by Jen Murdoch on December 11, 2008 at 6:22pm

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Cliff McCollum replied to Cliff McCollum's discussion 'Easy Green ideas'
CBC has an article about how you can opt-out of Phone book delivery. The books may be recycled paper, but the energy to print and distribute them is still significant. If you have high-speed Internet access, I don't know why you'd still…
Feb 23, 2009
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This is great that you have already taken these first steps! Shauna and I came back really excited and enthusiastic to help take this to the next level. I look forward to working with you!
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Thanks for joining. I really think this site could form the nexus of a great sustainability community for the Island, and potential further.
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