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CorNet: Get SMaRT© About Greenwashing
Welcome to the newest kid on the sustainability block, a one-stop-shopping system that rates all products and materials, from soup to nuts. “SMaRT© does for products what LEED® does for buildings.”...
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SMaRT© Agreement Fills Void in Canadian Green Products Certification
Ecovert Sustainability Consultants, and the Washington, DC-based Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS), have signed a licensing agreement authorizing the Toronto-based firm to represent MTS on an exclusive basis in Canada around SMaRT© certification and Green Building Securities (GBS)...
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Betting On Green To Fix The Economy
Let's take a moment to look back at the stock market crash of the early 1970s; at the time, hailed as the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s. Forty years later, we are back in a similar position with a wildly fluctuating stock market, foreclosures, bankruptcies, volatile oil prices, government bailouts, and tight credit restrictions…
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CoreNet: Looking Forward
One of the ways the government is expediting renewable energies is to provide financial incentives with programs such as the Feed-in Tariff. Eligible renewable energy sources for the feed-in tariff include biomass, biogas, landfill gas, on-shore and off-shore wind, solar photovoltaic and waterpower…
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