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Closing the climate funding gap is key to Canada's prosperity

Corporate Knights

At the heart of the climate change challenge is the dependence on fossil fuels that is built into every sector, from buildings and vehicles to power plants and farm equipment, steel mills and breweries. With that built-in fossil fuel dependence comes locked-in greenhouse gas emissions. Such an alignment is possible.

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Sustainability Resource Hub: Strategies, Metrics, and Best Practices

3BL Media

Companies investing in energy-efficient infrastructure, such as smart building systems, process automation, and heat recovery technologies, are seeing immediate returns in the form of lower utility bills and improved operational stability. A must-read for those concerned about the future of our ecosystems.

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Cisco's Sustainability 101: How IT Contributes to Emissions and Climate Change

3BL Media

Cisco amongst others publish predictions of how these technologies will change our digital experiences, change the way we work, and shape our lives. 3 As IT becomes more and more pervasive in our lives, we naturally see an increasing interest and debate around its impact on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

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DOE invests $61 million in ‘smart building’ energy efficiency projects

Renewable Energy World

of Energy is backing 10 energy efficiency pilot p rojects that aim to transform thousands of homes and workplaces into resilient smart buildings. DOE is providing $61 million for the "Connected Communities" program, which will equip buildings with smart controls, sensors, and analytics to reduce energy use, costs, and emissions.

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Cisco PENN1 – Making hybrid work, work for offices

Cisco CSR

The focus has been on areas where we believe we can make the most significant impact on the environment: addressing climate change, driving a circular economy, and being responsible stewards of the planet’s limited resources. We have been nurturing the foundational technology behind our smart building solution for over ten years.

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Russia's upending of fossil fuels markets shouldn't change energy transition for Canada

Corporate Knights

The European Union spent decades negotiating decarbonization strategies that were aggressive by international standards but still mild and equivocal compared to what the science of climate change demands. But the world has changed fundamentally, and Canada can no longer expect to thrive if we’re still partying like it’s 1922. .

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Harnessing the Power of Parked EVs

3BL Media

It’s a concept that turns electric vehicles from consumers of electricity to suppliers as well, by enabling them to give power back to the grid, or even to a smart building. Smart buildings or business parks, with their own microgrids driven by renewable sources like wind or solar, could be another important application.